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March Madness
Mar. 26th, 2009 06:09 pmNo, not the basketball kind of madness. ;-)
As one might guess from my lack of posting, I've beenrunning around in circles busy the last few weeks. Karin and Ami were in town for about 5 days in mid-March, so I got to hang out with them some. Also, they took me with them when they went to go see the Sandhill cranes out on the Platte river, which was gorgeous. I meant to do some posts on it, but my heart was too full and I couldn't write. (I'll try again this weekend, perhaps.) Then we had some really warm spring days where I was starting to clear leaves/sticks/enormous-towering-sunflower-skeletons out of the garden to get it ready for planting, and some weird annoying personal drama, and being massively shorthanded (by about 40 hours a week) in the bakery, and that about sums up the past two weeks.
Random notes from the past few days:
* The house to the west has the tallest magnolia tree I've ever seen. It's huge! (For magnolia values of huge, that is.) It's starting to bud out, which is how I realized it was a magnolia. I'm hoping the cold snap we haven now doesn't bother it too much, because I want to see this thing in full blossom.
* My backyard has a bush about my height covered with small, red buds. As an experiment I broke off a few twigs and stuck them in a vase. I now have twigs that are covered with small white flowers that look like a child's drawing of a five-petaled flower. I have no idea what it is--it's pretty clearly a member of the Rose genus, but that's not exactly narrowing down the list of suspects. I am thinking I need to go down and get a few more twigs.
* Lincoln, Nebraska's average last freeze date is April 28th; last frost date is May 9th.
* LJ is wonderful because you can go back through your entries and figure out what tomato varieties worked and what didn't. Despite this, I have bought yet another packet of Nebraska Wedding tomatoes.
As one might guess from my lack of posting, I've been
Random notes from the past few days:
* The house to the west has the tallest magnolia tree I've ever seen. It's huge! (For magnolia values of huge, that is.) It's starting to bud out, which is how I realized it was a magnolia. I'm hoping the cold snap we haven now doesn't bother it too much, because I want to see this thing in full blossom.
* My backyard has a bush about my height covered with small, red buds. As an experiment I broke off a few twigs and stuck them in a vase. I now have twigs that are covered with small white flowers that look like a child's drawing of a five-petaled flower. I have no idea what it is--it's pretty clearly a member of the Rose genus, but that's not exactly narrowing down the list of suspects. I am thinking I need to go down and get a few more twigs.
* Lincoln, Nebraska's average last freeze date is April 28th; last frost date is May 9th.
* LJ is wonderful because you can go back through your entries and figure out what tomato varieties worked and what didn't. Despite this, I have bought yet another packet of Nebraska Wedding tomatoes.
