Three things make a post. Do I have three things?
Let's see:
I did not cut back the milkweed -- most of the seedpods still have seeds in them, so I'm leaving them up for the birdies. I did go and cut back the beardtongue and Chinese lanterns in the NW garden, leaving up the stonecrop and the Russian sage which still have seeds.
We have had a couple of hard freezes, but they haven't lasted very long. Temps are supposed to be warm for at least another week, so the pump gets to stay in the pond for a little while longer. DB is muttering about how 'kids these days' have it easy -- the village holiday parade is Saturday, and it's supposed to be somewhere in the 40s(F) for the parade. The valve body on his sousaphone froze two of the four years he did that parade, and SR had icicles off her sax at least one year. (I think she marched in the first two parades - I don't remember exactly when they started the parade.)
The birds have not been eating a lot of birdseed - consumption usually goes down in November unless it's snowy or very cold. Once the migrating birds have gone through, all that we have are the ones wintering over, and there's seeds and fruits available until it snows and/or freezes and stays frozen.
I wound up making a cranberry bundt cake for Thanksgiving dessert, modifying a raisin pound cake recipe as necessary to fit the ingredients I had on hand.
(I do have three things! It's a post!)
I did not cut back the milkweed -- most of the seedpods still have seeds in them, so I'm leaving them up for the birdies. I did go and cut back the beardtongue and Chinese lanterns in the NW garden, leaving up the stonecrop and the Russian sage which still have seeds.
We have had a couple of hard freezes, but they haven't lasted very long. Temps are supposed to be warm for at least another week, so the pump gets to stay in the pond for a little while longer. DB is muttering about how 'kids these days' have it easy -- the village holiday parade is Saturday, and it's supposed to be somewhere in the 40s(F) for the parade. The valve body on his sousaphone froze two of the four years he did that parade, and SR had icicles off her sax at least one year. (I think she marched in the first two parades - I don't remember exactly when they started the parade.)
The birds have not been eating a lot of birdseed - consumption usually goes down in November unless it's snowy or very cold. Once the migrating birds have gone through, all that we have are the ones wintering over, and there's seeds and fruits available until it snows and/or freezes and stays frozen.
I wound up making a cranberry bundt cake for Thanksgiving dessert, modifying a raisin pound cake recipe as necessary to fit the ingredients I had on hand.
(I do have three things! It's a post!)