Notes for March 30, 2010

Guess what? It's raining!  I emptied 2.2" from the rain gauge yesterday afternoon.

Notes for March 29, 2010

Things are moving slow this year, or I probably should say that its me that's moving slow.  I haven't turned the garden yet nor have I started my tomato or pepper seeds.  This past weekend the weather was still a factor.  I was doing some outside work at church on Saturday and after lunch I didn't have that much ambition since it was still chilly.  I did at least go through the grass and my flower beds along the driveway and threw the stones back into the driveway that got shoveled out of the driveway with the snow.  But that's about it.    Sunday it was cloudy and cool and occasionally sprinkled so I didn't work outside.  On Saturday I did empty the rain gauge of 0.25" that rained on Thursday.  And surprise it's raining again today.  We had some steady moderate rain last night and the creeks were up their banks again this morning.  Hopefully tonight I will at least clean out the area in the basement in front of my seed starting shelf.

Notes for March 23, 2010

Thunderstorm in March last night.  I could tell, it was easy, there was an 85 pound golden retriever stuck to my leg.

Notes for March 21, 2010

Yesterday I finally broke Spring.  After my morning errands I was able to work in the yard.  It was unfortunate that I did not get home until 11 and that kind of shot half the day since we had dinner plans.  Anyway, I did stop at my local garden center and it being the first day of Spring, I walked into a 20 percent off everything in the store sale. woo hoo!  I had a $50 gift certificate so I bought a 24 pound bag of bone meal, a shut off valve for the hose (squeeze type) and a hand rake (18" long), and I still had $6 left. When I got home I turned the onion bed after adding bone meal, wood ashes and leaves.  Then I planted yellow and red onions. While shopping earlier this week I found a purple daylily on sale and bought a pack of three.  I then planted them after the onions and learned the old lessons that unless its a new flower bed, you really shouldn't plant new perennials until May.  In the first spot I wanted to plant it, I ended up digging up a hosta that hadn't sprouted yet.  So I changed strategies and planted them in spots where the marigolds were and still needed to be cleaned out of the flower bed. After that I started cleaning up the yard of fallen branches and got two thirds of the front yard done.  Then I ran out of steam.