Mornin' folks! It's a bright and sunny Sunday here - still a bit chilly out and the wind picked up some, but I'm planning to get outside and do some clean up work in the yard today - if it's not too wet to take the lawn tractor through the yard. I'm also planning to take the feather blankets and hang them out on the clothesline to get fluffed up as we're likely to need them at few more times this year. I don't trust the month of March at all - blizzards, ice storms, torrential rain; it brings 'em all 
After the yard clean up is done, I'd like to clean the winter detritus out of one of the small garden beds and poke some beet seed into the soil - having a craving for beet greens lately so I'm likely low on Vitamin C, A, and iron. I'll pull a bag of last year's greens out of the freezer to cook today, but it will be good to have fresh ones on hand. Think while I've got my head stuck in the freezer, I'll snag a bag of meatloaf mix and make up a pan of BBQ meatballs to go along with the beet greens
Only other plans are to fill the birdfeeders, run a load of the latest batch of jars through the dishwaher, and head up to the pool to exercise for an hour this afternoon; hoping to con Hubby or the neighbor lady into going along. I will be glad when the neighbor gets her knee straightened out so we can go on our 3 mile walks again - the treadmill just ain't cutting it!!
Looks like we're definitely going to have to have the big hard maple in the front yard taken down this year; the whole north side of it is dead. It will make me sad to see it come down as it's one of two my parents planted when they bought this farm 60 some years go; we lost the other one almost 6 years ago. It also provides the main shade for the house on the south - I've been toying with the idea of solar panels to go on the south facing roof or planting two trees to replace the one...
Well dang - my coffee cup somehow turned up empty! Reckon I'd better go fill it up, then see if I can pry Hubby out of his recliner and out to work in the yard!
Take care all; stay safe out there this week!
After the yard clean up is done, I'd like to clean the winter detritus out of one of the small garden beds and poke some beet seed into the soil - having a craving for beet greens lately so I'm likely low on Vitamin C, A, and iron. I'll pull a bag of last year's greens out of the freezer to cook today, but it will be good to have fresh ones on hand. Think while I've got my head stuck in the freezer, I'll snag a bag of meatloaf mix and make up a pan of BBQ meatballs to go along with the beet greens
Only other plans are to fill the birdfeeders, run a load of the latest batch of jars through the dishwaher, and head up to the pool to exercise for an hour this afternoon; hoping to con Hubby or the neighbor lady into going along. I will be glad when the neighbor gets her knee straightened out so we can go on our 3 mile walks again - the treadmill just ain't cutting it!!
Looks like we're definitely going to have to have the big hard maple in the front yard taken down this year; the whole north side of it is dead. It will make me sad to see it come down as it's one of two my parents planted when they bought this farm 60 some years go; we lost the other one almost 6 years ago. It also provides the main shade for the house on the south - I've been toying with the idea of solar panels to go on the south facing roof or planting two trees to replace the one...
Well dang - my coffee cup somehow turned up empty! Reckon I'd better go fill it up, then see if I can pry Hubby out of his recliner and out to work in the yard!
Take care all; stay safe out there this week!
At least it's not on my work weekend this year, though I'll now have the sun in my eyes for a few weeks again until it rises early enough that it's high enough to block with the visor as I drive to work in the mornings. That reminds me, I need to look for my sunglasses...