jennlk | It may actually be spring.... (Reply)

Highs in the mid 60F range, rain last night, and again tonight into, um, well, Friday. Better than snow, I guess. Dry and sunny and near 70F today (20C). Small hyacinths in the doorside garden are going gangbusters, the large daffs in the NW bed are still blooming - all the freezing & snow doesn't seem to have affected them too badly. Two patches of the peonies that I moved in the fall are coming up just fine, and one is not. I have no idea why. The irises I moved are coming up as well, even the ones that I moved into the front garden. The late season bi-colored daffs in the front garden are just starting to show buds. The early "wild" tulips are blooming, too. I think the big red tulip plant in the deckside garden needs to be removed entirely --it hasn't actually had a flower on it in a few years, and this year it looks like it's got more than just frost damaged leaves. I'll wait until the bed dries out a bit (so next week sometime) before digging it out and throwing it away. Right now, that flower bed is too wet to work in.

i just heard a frog 'gronk'.

Groceries again today. Local grocer had non-dairy milk, jasmine rice, vegetable soup base, and sausage. No cereal (well, plenty of cereal, just not what I wanted). Meijer had almost everything else on the list, and what was missing wasn't groceries - I don't consider soda 'groceries'. We'll survive until the variety we want comes back in. (Or suck it up and pay more at the local grocer.)