Archive for 'Crocus'
Posted: April 20th, 2007 by
Lisa
I cannot begin to say how sick I was of snow. Snow, rain, more snow, lots of wind, flooding, rain and more snow. Uck. I had the ultimate case of cabin fever there for a while. Something about this last storm, which was long and miserable, just about did me in. Maybe I don’t
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Posted under Chainsaw, Clearing, Crocus, Farm Life, Honey Bees, Horses, Maple, Sheep.
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Posted: April 16th, 2004 by
Lisa
Spring has sprung. It’s probably only temporary, and I know we’ll probably still get at least one more snow fall before spring is really truly here, but I don’t care. Today was absolutely beautiful, and we stayed outside as much as we could, getting a head start on the spring clean up, and getting quite
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Posted under Crocus, Lilac, daffodils, squill.
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Posted: April 12th, 2003 by
Lisa
We both kept ourselves busy with gardening tasks today. We went up north this morning, looking for breakfast and grow bulbs. Breakfast was good, but neither Walmart, K-Mart, nor the pet store in Claremont had a single grow bulb for our shop light fixtures. We should have stocked up better when we saw them all
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Posted under Building, Compost, Crocus, Design Ideas, Fish, Grow lights, Marmalade, Pond, Princess, Window Boxes, Yoda, daffodils, tulips.
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Posted: April 10th, 2003 by
Lisa
There’s quite a bit of bare ground out there again. We’re back to mud and puddles, and the pond is completely clear today. Frank says it looks much better but that it doesn’t smell that much better. He turned the pump back on today. We clearly left too many dead leaves and stuff like that
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Posted under Crocus, Mulch, Pond, Sawmill, Snow, daffodils.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2003 by
Lisa
Oh, the weather outside is frightful … I know, I shouldn’t be humming carols, but with a winter storm raging during the first week of April, I have to sing, or I’ll cry. We got six inches or so overnight last night, it spat sleet and freezing rain for most of the morning, then turned
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Posted under Crocus, Firewood, Pond, Pump (pond), Snow, daffodils.
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Posted: March 27th, 2003 by
Lisa
Usually, we have gold and purple finches all winter long, and they segregate themselves when eating the thistle feed at our feeders. But we haven’t seen a purple finch since last fall, and we missed them! But they are back. A flock landed in our yard today, and have been eating sunflower seeds rather than thistle, which is a bit strange for them. The ground has gotten so bare in just a couple of days that I can see daffodil foliage already. Amazing. The crocus shoots are out as well, though we still don’t have any actual blossoms. The pond is still frozen solid, however. But you can see the ice that covers it, rather than just the snow. Soon we’ll see if the fish survived the long winter.
Posted under Crocus, Gold Finch, Pond, Purple Finch, daffodils.
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Posted: April 6th, 2002 by
Lisa
The weather is finally nice enough to get out there and get started on the spring chores. First up, I’m absolutely that the entire lawn needs to be raked before anything can be applied to the lawn. It looks like we left too much cut grass on it too late in the season, or it
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Posted under Coffee Grounds, Compost, Crocus, Fish, Lawn, Marmalade, Pond.
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Posted: May 5th, 2001 by
Lisa
What a difference just four days away makes! I had a trip down to DC and Philly, and when I left on Tuesday morning, the trees didn’t have leaves on them. Spring sprung while I was gone. It was such a beautiful day today. The temps in the 60s, so a little chilly. We had
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Posted under Crocus, Iris, Lawn, Lily, daffodils, hyacinths.
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