A little sunshine

Well, the time between posts is getting long, because time it's self is getting a little squishy.
It's not "Sunday" anymore, it's "Facebook Church and Google Meet with Mom Day".
It's not "Tuesday", it's "YouTube Live from Alton Brown's Kitchen Night".

But I've got a ton of pictures and maybe I can string together a bit of a narrative with them.
Here goes!

We got a bit of snow back a while ago.
About 6" - I only figured that out by realizing how tall the grape hyacinth were.

It was beautiful in an austere sort of way.

The wild weather threw the bird off. I found this intact robin's egg under the forcythia and left it for a few days.
Nothing ate it or smooshed it, so I cleaned it thoroughly and set it in my indoor primrose.

After the snow melted I discovered my poppy survived it's transplant!
But it was not surviving the Bunny that has moved in.
I used this old fire pit screen to protect it until I could hose it off with a new shipment of Bobbex.

A friend gave me this electric chipper last fall, which I promptly jammed.
I took a nice day to take it apart, oil the moving parts (remove the jam) and put it back together.

And it worked! I had no left over pieces!
This little unit is drastically under powered for my needs (and pops the breaker every time it jams)
I'll be looking to upgrade it to a gas-powered model in the future.
For now, I'll just chip and curse every time something slightly oversized falls in.

I took up the pavers from out in front of the house, and all the left over mulch,
and made myself a decorative path to the compost pit. (the old barn foundation.)

With the good weather coming on, it was time to get serious about raised garden beds.
And my struggle against the Bunny.

Rather than have them on the ground (as I first intended) I made these freestanding.
I'd just read a book called "Square Foot Gardening" which makes more sense on my property
than to try to do a traditional row garden.
I also double dog dare the Bunny to scale this bed.

All in all I made 3 - the one on the far left is for herbs only, the long one in the middle is for misc. veggies,
And the one on the far right (double deep) is for rood crops like potatoes.

Around this time I noticed a new roommate. Not the best choice of siting, Robin friend.

The ground has been tossing up more bits and bobs.
This tiny intact glass bottle (it's smaller than my thumb) came from a flower bed.

I don't know what this was, but the area between the barn foundation and the shed keeps spitting out bits of metal.

I found this old door latch while trying to dig out some compost/dirt from under the brush pile.
It snapped in half when I pulled on it, thinking it was a root.
There really is no rhyme or reason to where I'm finding debris.
There were a few 1" white square tiles with it, and bits of cut off green tiles that match the bathroom.

These did not bloom last year, so I can only guess the intense liming and bonemeal-ing of the lawn has helped a little.
These are called "The Poet's Daffodil" or "Pheasant's Eye" and they smell really nice.

I turned over a bit of a ground bed for pumpkins, and amended it with 160lbs of of Alpaca Poo from a local farm.
$20 bucks gets you 160 lbs and an afternoon's worth of entertainment.
Added bonus: rumor has it deer don't like the smell of Alpaca poo!

I had also gotten a few bags of MiracleGro Compost from Home Depot.
Be careful playing in dirt. :(

I'e been taking a lot of long walks - 2-4 miles a day on the local trail system.
Someone tucked this by the trail to find.
We could all use a little more these days.

So there you have it. Lots of outside garden activity. In the last week or so, the beds have gone from brown to green. I've been dividing more hosta, but that's pretty much ended now. I need to get a little more soil for the raised beds, but planting can't happen until they stop talking about snow (seriously, they are talking about snow again.)
I do have a new product on order for stripping trim on the inside of the house though, should come in this week sometime. Then I'll have more pictures!

Speaking of pictures, I've started a little project over on Instagram - #100plants100days. It's a nod to my middle school bio teacher/project.

Stay safe. - Sarah