Happy Holidays

Best wishes to you and yours during these festive days and throughout the comming year.

Took Willow to the Vet Today

I've been neglecting my blog because of a few things, one of which being Willow was ill.(the other reasons include scheduling tree pruning, and getting ready for the holidays)

Willow's vet appointment was today and it turns out her on-again/off-again chronic goopy eye and cough were caused by herpes(the cat variety). So now she's got four different medications to help her get through this flare up and might have to go on a long-term preventative medication but is otherwise okay.

Immune booster, antibiotics, eye drops, and airway clearer.

I'm very relieved it's not something life-threatening, or even life-changing. Mixing some meds into her morning wet food is a pittance of change when you think of all the things that could have been wrong. Thanks for understanding and we should be back to our regular programming in a few days.

Saw This In A Window Today

Internet Explorer Hates Beauty

Just realised all my modifications look like crud on IE.

Use Firefox people. IE hates beauty.

/grump

Is it just me, or is this taking forever?

Tub A - Lettuce & Green Onion

Tub B - Lettuce, Radishes & Carrots

Tub C - Lettuce and Carrots

Mint. If you look REALLY close you can see tiny sprouts.

Leek. Growing new roots and more leaf.

Maybe it's just me but I kinda figured the sprouts would have stopped looking like sprouts and started looking like plants by now.

About the new addition, I was chopping some leeks to put in an omelet and I left a nice big chunk with the root end to see if I could sprout some new roots. Since the mint didn't seem to be sprouting I figured I'd just plant it in that tub... well now the mint's showing activity and I don't want to disturb it so... I need to find another tub I guess. :)

Silica, Seeds, and Snow

Ran a few errands yesterday; one of which was buying Silica Gel to dehumidify my seed tub.

Only $19.20 after tax at Michael's

When the blue bits go pink it's time to re-dry it.

Instead of making packets or jars, I dumped it all in the tub.

The cardboard box of seeds fits nicely on top.

This snow has stuck around a full 24 hrs... and there's an icicle on my window. I now have to admit it's winter.

Made Some Changes; Added Some Pages

I'm still tweaking the layout of this blog in order to get it to look just right. :) I probably will be for a while yet.

I've also added a couple more info pages to the tabs along the top of the page. Check them out and let me know what you think.

As Tigger says, TTFN.

See All the Green?

Yay! Except... no, not really.

All those tall grass looking things are rye. Apparently when I scooped dirt from the garden I brought in some rye seeds too. The teeny-tiny sprouts are what I planted, and the one lettuce has yet to sprout at all. The tall "sprout-looking" sprouts(aka "hairy roots") I assume are the radishes because they're the fastest growing thing I planted.

The poor mint hasn't shown any spouts either (I planted a few seeds dead center). Looks like maybe they were too old. I've snipped at the soil every sprout that I'm over 95% sure is rye. In a  few days we'll see how the rest are doing.

OMG YAY!

Omg I won! Thank you so very much!
I never win anything! This is so exciting!

Early to Bed and Early to Rise.

Found a calendar calculator on-line and I'm using it to calculate when to start seeds and set out transplants based on our average frost date (May 1).

It's looking like a longer season then I originally thought. First harvest of broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage should be ready on or around May 29th.  Wow! I know folks who don't even bother turning over their soil til the May-two-four weekend.

**happy dance**

Edging Complete!

Beautiful border around the garden. 

 There's a weird little corner here, but I 

finished what I started two weeks ago.

Figure I'll mark off all the beds tomorrow, put down walk ways, and get some of the garlic in for an early start.

Local Weather Update

Some more snow this morning. It's been melting by afternoon.

River's going down(you can tell by the wet mark) but all this precipitation has it up over the graffiti.