Hey friends,
Well, after days and days of blustry winds and cooler than normal temperatures...the beauty and warmth of spring moved in...
and actually stayed several days, even long enough to get the teeny tiny garden planted...
as mama would say, "such as it is". But it's a start. Today, we have 59 degrees and steady rain...and this is supposed to stick around all week.
This is my one horseradish plant. It grew in last year's garden but the girls I bought it from said not to harvest the root until the second year. Probably won't know what to do with the root anyway.
and speaking of last year's garden...
do you remember the beautiful Leek that grew and grew? Well, it is no longer. Even the little bag of saved seeds have been misplaced. I loved that Leek! Last year's garden was full of surprises and extra special.
I've simply got to find another Leek plant. Lowes doesn't have them this year.
Anyhow, back to this year's garden...the teeny tiny row of red russian kale is looking good, however, I did see three pretty little blue butterflies dancing above the row which is probably not a good thing.
Oh, and back to this picture. The old birdbath is cracked and no longer holds water. So, using the pretty white flower pot Andee gave me last Christmas, and the large antique bowl I found at Goodwill, put together with a verbena plant and a frog and some rocks, well, it's kinda pretty, I think.
Not much to talk about lately except yard work, the garden, or back pain. So, I will finish up here with the garden Bee House...
not much difference except Poppy drilled holes in the ends of the sticks and I've added some big pieces of pine bark.
Still want to fill the large glass jar with bamboo pieces but haven't been able to find any.
I'm good at over-doing things...and may scare the bees away with the bark roof.
Hope I haven't bored you to the point of never coming back. Oh, and the back pain...I have an MRI scheduled for Friday. Hopefully, this will show if something has changed, causing more pain. :(
Thank you for visiting.
Love,
Henny
I was expecting Mother's Day to be quiet and, well, a little lonely and depressing.
Then Saturday afternoon, Andee called and asked, "mom, can we do a drive-by tomorrow for Mother's Day. We won't come in." Of course! I was tickled to death!
Then Poppy said, why don't you pick up some lunch on the way and I will pay. Anything will be fine, and we will sit outside and eat. So we did. It was so good to see them both!
Andee and Todd brought me the beautiful rose in the picture. It's yellow, pale pink, and dark pink too. I love it!
I've started a new project for the garden...by the way, that dot you can see going up the dirt road is Poppy riding his brand new John Deere mower to the mail box...
didn't realize he was in the picture until now.
Anyhow, I've been hearing and seeing a lot lately about Solitary (mason) bees and how to build a house for them in your garden.
and you know how I am...get an idea in my head and then simply can't wait to get started. Oh, I've already lost sleep over these bees, dreaming and planning all during the night while the rest of the world sleeps.
Most surprising is the fact the I found everything I needed to build this bee house in my stash of junk boards and pieces of old wood down near the bunny lot.
Poppy's back with the mail and a big turkey feather and says tell ya'll "hey". Said he found the feather along the way.
So back to the bee house...I've found some really neat ideas online but one of the cutest and the one I tried to model my bee house after is by Jerri Landers at hopalonghollowgazette.blogspot.com She has such a beautiful place!
It's not finished yet. All those sticks piled on the left side need holes drilled in them and the wide mouth glass jar will hold pieces of bamboo...
Also picked up small pieces of cut firewood, and large pieces of pine bark. I love, love, love doing things like this!
Tomorrow Poppy and I are going to Lowes in Henderson to get a few things we need. Wearing our mask and keeping our distance, of course.
Turkey season ended last Saturday, thank the Lord! Now we can concentrate on getting some things done around here...before next deer season comes in again! No turkey this time, by the way. :)
Here it is Wednesday morning...was too tired to finish this last night. Will say bye for now and hope to be back soon. We're going to Lowes!! Yay!!
Love,
Henny
