It rained a little this afternoon and the wind blew hard. It made for bad wind chill temps. I think the hardy geraniums were better off staying inside where it is warm. I was out there for a while with a guy who was going to give me an estimate on a length of fence. It was so very cold. It took me a couple of hours to get warmed up after that experience.
The begonia also is doing well in the spare room It leaves look better that its blooms. It is about the third winter that this plant has been wintered over inside.
We needed the moisture and we are getting small amounts of it off and on. It seems that snow is mentioned once in a while but we haven't had any yet. Tulips are starting to bloom in places so maybe they will see sun soon. I hope so.
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As the earth tilts back I see the sun is now between the small top of the pine and the old silver maple. It was really cold out there this morning.
I brought the stems and and immediately I had one bloom. Now the majority are going to be in bloom. I picked them late this year.
My nature camera is busy again as I brought it back out from inside last winter. The dove decided to just sit there and rest after it finished eating.
We are back into cold weather but it does warm up a bit in the afternoon. We have magnolias in town in full bloom and my neighbors have tulips in bloom. Mine should bloom in the next few days. The warm spell was so nice but it wasn't normal. I guess I am not so anxious to start mowing grass so things should slow down.
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With all the windy weather I wasn't out to check on the development of the pussy willows. I almost missed the budding of them. The sucker branches at the bottom are behind the main tree so I could havest some of these.
I usually bring in branches and keep them long enough that they start putting out leaves and roots. They were always a novelty to me as I never had a plant of it of my own. This new property of ours came with the pussy willow bush.
I spent two different mornings trimming back five different rose bushes. I had about five containers of these as I worked. I do have the scratches on my body proving that it is a dangerous job. I had three other bushes that I had deadheaded last fall so they won't need much pruning.
My roses were planted by a previous owner. These three will look better when the leaf out but I am thinking I may need to start to replace them with newer bushes. When you buy in on someone else's gardens you can't know how old things are. The previous owner was here eleven years and he did build the flower bed and rock garden bed with a raised brick wall. The trailer is my new permanent lawn ornament as he stores his wood for his project in the trailer.
Our weather was warm and windy yesterday and today we dropped into cold temps. We will be out for church this morning and meet friends for at a sandwich place. It actually will be colder by that time.
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This little guy is busy picking up the pieces that fall onto the deck. He is really filling his jowls. This is my first siting of a chipmunk for this season.
It was about time that I picked one of these up at the grocery store. The hard part is picking the color as they have a large variety to choose from. I bought just one even though I wanted more of them.
It is nice outside today. I got two different roses dead headed, maybe really called pruning back the rose hips. The roses are sprouting new leaves but I still can cut away on things. They need to be shaped up a little anyway and this is a great time to do it. We are going to get up to 80 degrees F. this afternoon. I had to turn on the air already to take the heat down a bit inside. Spring and summer seems to be hitting at the same time.
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My new memory of my yesterday's birthday was sitting the morning in the dentist's chair. It was not a great experience. In fact, I can't think of anything worse that having needles prodding and large tools shoving into my mouth. My dentist complained that I had a small mouth. Both the helper and the dentist really don't know how abusive they can be with their tools as they don't have personal experiences of what it feels like forcing devices here and there.
I had an old bridge of three teeth that had collapse, unglued on one end. The bridge was made of three gold teeth and he claimed he had never see one break or crack like that one. Anyway they took all of it out, ground down a fresh connection point for both ends. After two different plastic clay imprints, I now have a temporary bride that fells like concrete.
On the positive side of things I got a moon shot early morning yesterday. After resting from all the abuse I went to Olive Garden for supper. I had soft thins to pick from and got along well in spite of all the sore spots and bruises on my lips. This morning things are just better. The worse part of it all is done as the new bridge will be easy now that all the prep work is done. The new bridge with expensive ceramic white teeth are all on order. My temp needs to last over twenty days or more.
It was a warm day yesterday afternoon so I did get some b etter crous shots. They opened up nicely.
I have a few white ones out there. They are crowded just litke the others from the creeping phlox.
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The shot seems curious but the house finch was pulling one of its antics. They scramble back and forth and give me great unusual poses. He was looking down at the seed below and planning is means for landing there.
They have a great song that is different than the wren. I have to think at first of which that it is but in most cases the house finch has a smoother sound.
Our weather looks good for today. I like seeing the sun shine even though I wish it were a little bit warmer. I have taxes to take in soon and also now have a dental appointment for this afternoon. I love how dental problems show up when you are busy. I have a bridge that is unglued. I don't even remember when I had that put in but they did get me into a late appointment at 3:00. I was expecting that I would have to wait for many days. Having spent many bucks on my teeth this year I was thinking I was doing good for a few years. Nope, think again.
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