Hard Freezes, Frost

 The cottonwood tree holds onto its leaves even though we keep having hard freezes. My locust tree has just rained down all of its foliage onto the ground in the past few days. I blow the debris of the sidewalks and an hour later it is covered again. It will be time to use the leaf catcher to pick it all up with the mower.

 

 

While blogging, I just stopped and took the two shots. It shows it looking like a war zone on the grass. Then you can see the evidence that all of the foliage just dropped off the branches. We had a birch tree that did the same thing each fall when all the leaves would drop during a two day period.

 I brought this rose bud in from the cold and it was a good thing. It is looking good inside rather than being all browned from the freezes. 

 The collection of them was easy as there are very few things left alive on the rose bushes. I need to trim back a lot of the rose bushes but I have been told that I can do it during the winter and it won't hurt them. I have done it during a warm day in February.

 I have a Tuesday visit to get prescribed reading glasses. My cataracts are gone and I don't have to hold the computer up to my nose in order to blog anymore. I have temp cheaters right now and they work but by my last visit to the doctor she said I need to have stronger readers. It is so great to be able to have the computer back onto my lap and I can see things clearly. 

I didn't pick up my computer for the whole day yesterday. We had company in the afternoon of new neighbors, their three grand kids, and the grand kids' two dogs. It was a great time to meet everyone. I had gotten to know Steve but the whole group came over for a good visit. We haven't had dogs in the house since we lost Barney back in 2019. The dogs were so good and they made themselves right at home as their humans were with them. The grands are staying with their grandparents for the week. We have been enjoying seeing the two dogs out in their back yard. 

Thanks for stopping by today.