Archive for 'Sunny'
Posted: May 8th, 2007 by
Lisa
It’s really hard, right now. We lost a llama yesterday, so suddenly that I can hardly believe it happened. It’s hard to even write about it, but I guess I want to document it in case someone else has something similar happen. On Saturday, Vinnie had a lamb, the first one in the pen with
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Posted under Bjarki, Blackflies, Chickens, Death, Ewes, Farm Life, First Date Out, Horse Housing, Lambs, Llama, Mosquitos, Sawmill, Sunny, Tractor, Truck, Window Boxes, mega-catch.
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Posted: August 14th, 2003 by
Lisa
We went to the grand opening of a Home Depot in Keene last night. Their nursery isn’t great, but we did get some good deals. We were a bit disappointed in how many zone six and seven plants we saw. Keene might be zone 5, but most of the hill towns around Keene are
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Posted under Batik, Bearded, Compost, Gardening, Iris, Lawn, Night Owl, Orange Parade, Planting, Pruning, Rain, Sarah Bernhardt, Soil, Sunny, Worms, peony.
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Posted: June 27th, 2003 by
Lisa
The heat wave continues here. It got as high as the mid-90s again, which just saps my energy and keeps me from wanting to do much outside at all. The string algae in the pond suddenly appeared today, from all of the hot weather, I guess. Frank fished most of it out with the net.
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Posted under Algae, Centaurea montana Mountain Bluet, Columbine, Fish, Foxglove, Lupine, Madame Hardy, Pond, Sunny, tulips.
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Posted: June 15th, 2003 by
Lisa
I’m not sure all fathers would agree, but I think Frank thought his Father’s Day was pretty darn okay. The sun was shining (finally!) and we spent most of the day outside working in the new garden. After we could barely move from exhaustion, we soaked off the grime in the whirlpool tub and then
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Posted under Chipper, Jeremy, Sunny, Weed Whacker.
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Posted: September 9th, 2002 by
Lisa
It was record-breaking hot here today. 99 degrees. We had a hugely productive day, though. We worked ourselves until we were exhausted, but got a huge amount of stuff done in the garden. The cats (both Princess and Yoda) supervised nearly everything we did today, clearly enjoying the weather and the company. They are
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Posted under Cats, Compost, Deadheading, Lawn tractor, Princess, Screening, Sunny, Turning, Weeding, Yoda.
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Posted: April 28th, 2001 by
Lisa
One of the things on this side of the house that we want to save is an old cellar hole. There was a house and barn on this property long before we owned it, probably abandoned a hundred years ago or so. The house existed on the Marlow tax map in 1860. One of the
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Posted under Crab Apple, Day, Ditch, Lily, Maple, Pond, Pump (pond), Sunny, Tractor, Truck, Wishlist, bonfire.
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