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- Sunrise: 7:39 am GMT-8
- Sunset: 4:12 pm GMT-8
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Apr
12
5:45 am, Saturday Morning
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This weekend holds such promise. Today the temperatures are to reach into the mid 60’s and on Sunday they are supposed to reach the high 60’s. Finally, at long last some nice weather. I hardly know where to begin on all the stuff I want to do outside.
There is the car that needs to be washed and vacuumed to get rid of all the winter dirt inside and out.
The snow has melted enough that I can now get into my vegetable garden, when I was up there on Wednesday evening there was still a lot of snow but I could see most of my raised beds.
There is a lot of clean up to do, cutting back the dead fall on my tarragon (which I think may have survived, keeping my fingers crossed.) and parsley. Removing the old tomato plants, preparing beds to plant spinach and snap peas. I planted them early last year and they grew quite well.
The garlic I planted in the fall is coming up I can see the tips of it poking thru the soil.
Since I started this post the sun is up and it is light outside so I am off to start my day. More later
Apr
2
Little by little the snow melts
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Richard had to work late this evening so when I got home I had the opportunity to go out and look again at my garden. There is still a lot of snow there, I am surprised that more snow has not melted up there since the garden get full snow during the day.
I noticed that my chives and parsley are coming back. I am not sure about the Tarragon that may not have survived.
I thought that maybe tomorrow when I got home I would go out and have closer look at what is growing. If enough snow melts between now and next weekend (not this weekend) I plant some spinach and snap peas, just for kicks.
This morning the coyotes seem to be moving closer in than ever before. They sounded like they were on the back porch.
Apr
1
I walked out to the chicken coop
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this evening just to see if there might be a chicken there. There wasn’t. It has been a hard winter and those damn chickens did so well. I am blown away that they are all gone.
I have been wondering about whether or not to try this venture again. I know that I will always have the threat to the chickens, my dogs, a fox, an owl and a racoon. I feel bad that I didn’t do more to protect them, I was languid in my treatment of them. So I guess I need to think about whether I want to do this again and if I want to make the commitment to insure their safety more than I did with this last flock.
I think that I probably will get more again but for now I’ll wait. Clean the coop and see what I can do to improve security. Evaluate how I can provide better care. I have been interested in raising chickens that produce organic eggs. I currently was feeding them so layer feed that is definitely not organic.
It is supposed to reach just barely in to the 50’s tomorrow. This morning when I left for work it was 16°. I was shocked that it was that cold, as the day went by the skies cleared up and it turned out to be a chilly but pleasant day.