Spring approaches.
Mar. 27th, 2019 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkNo library this week, as Chelsea is on spring break. Next week there's no FCB, as Farmington is on spring break. We got Easter music for bell choir (the choir decided that we're playing at both services on Easter. whee. 7:30 am call.)
The crocuses in the side garden are blooming. It's still too early for the first bees, so the patch isn't buzzing yet. I should go out and rake leaves out of the garden bed by the forsythia before the early tulips come up through the leaves and make it hard to rake. I should also rake up the cottonwood branches before J runs them over with the lawnmower and does damage to the blades and the ground. Tomorrow should be OK for that, as long as the rain holds off.
The big tulips in the raised bed by the deck (where it's warmer ) are about four inches high, and there's a patch of something coming up in the milkweed bed -- looks like it might be hyacinth or some small iris, but it's a much larger patch than I remember.
The flock of mixed black birds (grackles, starlings, red-winged blackbirds) is at about half-strength, but they spend most of their time in the trees or at the feeders. It's still too cold for the moving lawn effect, as the insects they eat in the grass haven't started moving yet this year. The pond is getting a layer of ice on it every night - not really thick, but thick enough that the squirrels can run across without falling in.
There's a new set of Music Booster officers to break in -- the president, when asked for a short note, sent me a full page letter. She'd already gotten a copy of the newsletter file, and it should have been obvious that there wasn't room for a note that long. Lots of semi-public information in it, and four of the ten names were misspelled. I spent four hours reflowing the newsletter, and editing the articles so that they'd all fit. And she wants logos for a couple of fundraising sites in the newsletter. there's not room, and I can't make room without cluttering up the newsletter. I *like* whitespace in my layouts, tyvm.
The crocuses in the side garden are blooming. It's still too early for the first bees, so the patch isn't buzzing yet. I should go out and rake leaves out of the garden bed by the forsythia before the early tulips come up through the leaves and make it hard to rake. I should also rake up the cottonwood branches before J runs them over with the lawnmower and does damage to the blades and the ground. Tomorrow should be OK for that, as long as the rain holds off.
The big tulips in the raised bed by the deck (where it's warmer ) are about four inches high, and there's a patch of something coming up in the milkweed bed -- looks like it might be hyacinth or some small iris, but it's a much larger patch than I remember.
The flock of mixed black birds (grackles, starlings, red-winged blackbirds) is at about half-strength, but they spend most of their time in the trees or at the feeders. It's still too cold for the moving lawn effect, as the insects they eat in the grass haven't started moving yet this year. The pond is getting a layer of ice on it every night - not really thick, but thick enough that the squirrels can run across without falling in.
There's a new set of Music Booster officers to break in -- the president, when asked for a short note, sent me a full page letter. She'd already gotten a copy of the newsletter file, and it should have been obvious that there wasn't room for a note that long. Lots of semi-public information in it, and four of the ten names were misspelled. I spent four hours reflowing the newsletter, and editing the articles so that they'd all fit. And she wants logos for a couple of fundraising sites in the newsletter. there's not room, and I can't make room without cluttering up the newsletter. I *like* whitespace in my layouts, tyvm.
