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A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Something or Other "I musta made a wrong toin at Al-buh-KOY-kee"

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The Spring 9 months ago

garden is ready today for me to inspect and modify.
It’s really warm out – not languid warm, but sunshiny; it’s the kind of weather that makes one want to do dutiful things in the garden.

At first glance, it looks like it’s been a hard winter. There’s a lot of debris and winter-kill. But everything’s poking up from the earth as it should – sometimes in surprising places. There are hollyhocks sending up foliage along the old brick wall. (Where did they come from?) There are myosotis seedlings everywhere, and I will pot some of them. The green onions are several inches high. Peonies are breaking soil. There’s some kind of shrub breaking bud – I don’t remember what it is, but I bought it at deep discount in the autumn and planted it in a hurry.
Today: rake and spade. I’m moving a tree peony quickly to oppose its twin on the other side of the porch stairs. I like symmetry. I might start pruning roses, though I usually wait until the forsythia blooms for that task. It’s warm at last, and I want to go out and smell the earthy things.

Mar 28, 10:47AM PDT | 5 cheers

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Friede is snuggling with the dog

Wow

Toronto really is in a more temperate zone than Minneapolis. It is a little warmer here today but there are no green things breaking soil that I can see. Lots of singing birds. But we are maybe 3 weeks behind what you are describing. Ah spring. It is always so hopeful when it comes.

Mar 28, 11:04AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Something or Other "I musta made a wrong toin at Al-buh-KOY-kee"

The birds are singing here

around 4 a.m.
The robins are back.

Mar 28, 01:20PM PDT | Respond to this

mahinui ever more at home

mmm nice

I’ll join you in a virtual fashion. It is truly warm here – seventy something by the bay. The weeds have taken over the spaces in between in the back yard.

Mr M will have to attend to the problem fountain.

So first I’ll walk the dog, then attack the weeds.

Mar 28, 01:02PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Something or Other "I musta made a wrong toin at Al-buh-KOY-kee"

Oh, lovely!

That’s the kind of warm I could do with today!
My yard is still looking brown and bedraggled.
I’d like to climb that palm tree I see in the background, mahinui.

Mar 28, 01:19PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

mahinui ever more at home

Someday those palms will be larger

They are still young, and planted as much to hide the bump of land there that people experience as marring the water view as for the tropical feel.

This is as good a place as any to send you the photo of the garden gate. It is a photogenic photo of a gate that was never quite right, and never quite finished. The gate had to go up by close of escrow on the house and it wasn’t finished. Instead of removing it and getting it done, the gatemaker left it hanging and never quite got around to it again. As a result, it never got the finishes to protect it from rust, and it is literally returning to the ground. Pieces of it rot away, and whole segments just fall off.

Sadly the gatemaker and I have a business relationship outside the gate, inside the gate, and are part of the same very tiny community, so the relationship is more important than the gate. I could devote an entire goal to dealing with the bad feelings I have toward this woman. It is rare that anyone manages to do so many outrageous things over so long a time and remain within my personal sphere. She is the George W Bush of my personal life. The miraculous part is, when we move over there, our business relationship will cease, and the gate will go, and when she wants to hug me at the farmer’s market I can sneeze.

Aren’t the shadows of the ferns amazing?

May 26, 07:47AM PDT | Respond to this 2 cheers