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catching up and natter. mostly natter.
DB returned from NYC on Sunday. They were a couple of hours behind schedule, so I wound up missing church entirely. Oh well. And now he has a nasty cold (the sore throat one).
The weather has been thwarting my attempts to get into the garden -- when I'm home, it's either cold or raining (or both), and when I must be somewhere else, it's warm and sunny. The crocuses in the side garden are just about done, but the tulips and daffs are beginning to show buds. The little irises in the E garden bloomed a week ago, and on Wednesday I was able to get out there and cut back the seaholly and the milkweed so that the irises could be seen. It's supposed to get warm enough to work in the garden today, so I hope to get something done. The pond rill is leaking again, but it's too cold to do anything about it -- once it warms up we'll have to figure out something -- we'll probably wind up rebuilding the rill, and using a rubber liner or a layer of concrete under sand (or both) to keep the varmints from digging through.
The blackbirds and grackles and starlings are back, so I've stopped putting out suet cakes & seed bells because the birds they're intended for never get any seed. I don't mind the black birds picking at the birdseed that's spilled on the ground, but they're greedy and there are a lot of them, and they finish a suet cake in a day.
AJ's memorial service is next Sunday, so I will be at North Congregational Church for that. I went up on Wednesday to help Mum organise things. The minister there says that she's been getting notes and stories about Judy since her death was announced. (With that service on Sunday, I will be driving to Farmington four days out of eight, as there's a FCB concert on the 19th, with a stage rehearsal on the 17th. yay.)
The weather has been thwarting my attempts to get into the garden -- when I'm home, it's either cold or raining (or both), and when I must be somewhere else, it's warm and sunny. The crocuses in the side garden are just about done, but the tulips and daffs are beginning to show buds. The little irises in the E garden bloomed a week ago, and on Wednesday I was able to get out there and cut back the seaholly and the milkweed so that the irises could be seen. It's supposed to get warm enough to work in the garden today, so I hope to get something done. The pond rill is leaking again, but it's too cold to do anything about it -- once it warms up we'll have to figure out something -- we'll probably wind up rebuilding the rill, and using a rubber liner or a layer of concrete under sand (or both) to keep the varmints from digging through.
The blackbirds and grackles and starlings are back, so I've stopped putting out suet cakes & seed bells because the birds they're intended for never get any seed. I don't mind the black birds picking at the birdseed that's spilled on the ground, but they're greedy and there are a lot of them, and they finish a suet cake in a day.
AJ's memorial service is next Sunday, so I will be at North Congregational Church for that. I went up on Wednesday to help Mum organise things. The minister there says that she's been getting notes and stories about Judy since her death was announced. (With that service on Sunday, I will be driving to Farmington four days out of eight, as there's a FCB concert on the 19th, with a stage rehearsal on the 17th. yay.)