Spring is under way. https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/t13412 Runboard| Spring is under way. en-us Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:15:11 +0000 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:15:11 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246998,from=rss#post246998https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246998,from=rss#post246998Well, that is a good thing. But that is still some unpredictable weather!nondisclosed_email@example.com (Queenyforever)Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:21:45 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246992,from=rss#post246992https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246992,from=rss#post246992Froggy doesn't mind, she gets to go buy another eighty plants.. And.. the first lot may be guaranteed. Last night hit the mid twenties, today hit 67˚.. Tonight is supposed to be high twenties, tomorrow 69˚ Sunday is supposed to be in the seventies. nondisclosed_email@example.com (muladzh)Thu, 17 Apr 2014 00:06:03 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246990,from=rss#post246990https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246990,from=rss#post246990Nature is changing.... Sorry for Frogg's flowers though.. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Queenyforever)Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:22:41 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246988,from=rss#post246988https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246988,from=rss#post246988Yesterday morning we were driving through heavy snow to get to Johnson City - it didn't settle but it was thick snowfall. We could not see far on the free-way. nondisclosed_email@example.com (muladzh)Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:20:21 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246987,from=rss#post246987https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246987,from=rss#post246987Wow, that's a wild temperature swing. I've heard of snow in many places.   nondisclosed_email@example.com (Firlefanz)Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:10:44 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246985,from=rss#post246985https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246985,from=rss#post246985Three days ago, we came home at a little after ten, and the temperature was over seventy... Tonight we got home slightly earlier and the temperature was twenty nine. That must be some sort of record. It is bitterly cold now, the lowest temperature I could find outside ( I am strange, I have thermometers in various places outside ) was twenty seven.. The highest under the car-port, twenty nine. So. I think spring went away for a while.. I wonder if it will be back soon. I am trying to remember if I have experienced such a variation over three days before anywhere. I don't think I have. nondisclosed_email@example.com (muladzh)Wed, 16 Apr 2014 05:29:46 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246983,from=rss#post246983https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246983,from=rss#post246983Good luck for the plants! Hope you got home safely. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Firlefanz)Wed, 16 Apr 2014 04:57:04 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246979,from=rss#post246979https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246979,from=rss#post246979plants not covered - we are not yet back at home - had much work to do in Johnson city, so we won't be home until well after dark. Ain't remote desktop great.. nondisclosed_email@example.com (muladzh)Tue, 15 Apr 2014 23:12:17 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246974,from=rss#post246974https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246974,from=rss#post246974Oh, if hubby says we can replace our windows next Summer, that is the kind I am getting again. I loved those windows! ♥ Did you COVER Froggy's plants?nondisclosed_email@example.com (Queenyforever)Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:25:56 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246965,from=rss#post246965https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246965,from=rss#post246965That is the type of windows we want, Queenie, not these really crappy ones that don't open easily and only the bottom opens. Rain has arrived, with temperatures plummeting so the freeze is on its way. nondisclosed_email@example.com (muladzh)Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:00:19 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246962,from=rss#post246962https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246962,from=rss#post246962We need new windows in this house too... In our old house we had double paned, double hung windows installed. LOVE THOSE! On the side of the house where you get a breeze, you open the bottom half of all the windows. On the other side of the house you open the top half. Cool comes in the bottom and blows hot air out the top... nondisclosed_email@example.com (Queenyforever)Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:35:10 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246950,from=rss#post246950https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246950,from=rss#post246950"twould appear that spring is over - It may come back, but this weekend Summer came and roasted us. Trees in the front yard that on Friday were bare, now have a blaze of red flowers all over them. Summer came, trees bloomed, bugs woke up and started bothering folk, and we got too hot. Until a lot of money is spent on the heat pump, we are without cooling - so it is hot inside too - We do not like blown air heat or cool, the place gets filthy with dust and dirt flying all over the place, so we are not eager to spend over two thousand dollars getting the a/c fixed. With this fact in view we are looking to alternative ways to cool the house down, including fans and opening windows at cooler times of day. The fact we need new windows becomes very evident when we open one.. nondisclosed_email@example.com (muladzh)Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:07:21 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246942,from=rss#post246942https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246942,from=rss#post246942Looks like a lovely place to live! The flowers are gorgeous. nondisclosed_email@example.com (ReneeS)Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:25:24 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246939,from=rss#post246939https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246939,from=rss#post246939Our property is outside the fence on all sides, it just keeps things out of the house area. We have about two hundred trees, with most east of the fence. We have about 25yrds to the rear, 50 yards to the east, to the road at the north, and 30yds to the west.. It really is a peaceful place, we love it. nondisclosed_email@example.com (muladzh)Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:52:22 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246938,from=rss#post246938https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246938,from=rss#post246938Thank you!! I love the flower beds - I'm sure the Frog will turn them into the most beautiful flower spreads I can imagine. And I spy the little car, too. Your place feels lovely. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Firlefanz)Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:41:05 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246935,from=rss#post246935https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246935,from=rss#post246935OH MULDAZH.......what a lovely place. I get such a feeling of peace from those photos. Are those woods yours too...or does your property end at the fence?nondisclosed_email@example.com (Queenyforever)Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:25:14 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246933,from=rss#post246933https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246933,from=rss#post246933 from the top of the hill by the house, next two pictures.. Down the hill at the rear... And. . . The plumbers vehicles. there are three men, working, nobody slacking.. If they showed up on time every time, and communicated they would be great. this is an earlier one, before the store at the bottom of the hill was fully demolished.nondisclosed_email@example.com (muladzh)Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:07:39 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246932,from=rss#post246932https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246932,from=rss#post246932I will go take a picture of the flowers immediately.. If I can find my camera. nondisclosed_email@example.com (muladzh)Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:31:49 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246931,from=rss#post246931https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246931,from=rss#post246931Nice of Google to provide us with a pic. Yes, I can see that the slope to the right of the drive way is actually rather steep! So, where are the flowers? nondisclosed_email@example.com (Firlefanz)Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:51:08 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246927,from=rss#post246927https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246927,from=rss#post246927Froggy planted a few more plants and another rose bush - a Crimson Julia Child.. Roses have extraordinary names. I had to mow the grass again, two days after last time, the grass is shooting up. I managed to mow an area that last season I did not think I could get the mower on - it is a flat part of the hill, to the right of the driveway - about where the uncut grass is in the picture - it will be a good place to put a couple of raised flower beds. I find it quite amazing that this picture shows a gentle hill, when in fact it is seriously steep. I will try get a better picture and post that. Though... look to the extreme right, on the road - that is a pick-up truck that is dwarfed by the hill. The picture is courtesy of Google Maps, street level pictures©. nondisclosed_email@example.com (muladzh)Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:45:58 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246925,from=rss#post246925https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246925,from=rss#post246925Queeny, you rebel you! Might a local plant nursery take the rose bushes if need be?nondisclosed_email@example.com (ReneeS)Fri, 11 Apr 2014 01:44:30 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246902,from=rss#post246902https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246902,from=rss#post246902  Yeah, I imagine it is!! I think I have my Mom talked into letting me replant most of the roses out at her place. She is one of those 'strategic' planters. Her roses have to be in a row...etc. Well, not any more! I'm putting them around the fence line, around her other plantings... And I'm sticking "BULBS" in between everything else!! nondisclosed_email@example.com (Queenyforever)Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:38:43 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246887,from=rss#post246887https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246887,from=rss#post246887Oh, Queeny, I wish I were nearer - old fragrant roses are getting rarer and rarer - I would dearly love to have some, but a couple of thousand miles is a long way to come get a rose bush. nondisclosed_email@example.com (muladzh)Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:36:29 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246883,from=rss#post246883https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246883,from=rss#post246883It had definitely arrived here. My Peony's will be blooming any time! Daffodils, tulips, grape hyacinth...all the trees and the forsythia are all blooming. Muladzh, to bad you don't live closer to us. I would give you some. We have to remove at least 8 rose bushes...some very old, fragrant ones. I'm going to try to save some. But I really have no room. I'm keeping the lilacs as well...100's of bulbs, I have no idea what to do with them.. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Queenyforever)Mon, 07 Apr 2014 17:31:11 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246874,from=rss#post246874https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246874,from=rss#post246874Very much looking forward to the pics. I'm so happy that the Frog enjoys her garden. Give her a hug from me, please.    nondisclosed_email@example.com (Firlefanz)Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:23:09 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246871,from=rss#post246871https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246871,from=rss#post246871Today, the Frog and I bought fifty perennial flower plants and one scented rose bush. Froggy had cleaned out the front raised bed yesterday and this morning, so this afternoon we went to a nursery and bought the plants. We decided where they should go, placed the pots then stood back to see what they looked like - then Froggy planted them all. She has gifted fingers, unlike me, who makes a mess of planting anything. Tomorrow, We will photograph the result, and hopefully I will remember to post it here. nondisclosed_email@example.com (muladzh)Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:19:49 +0000 Re: Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246854,from=rss#post246854https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246854,from=rss#post246854Love your plans. Spring is very slowly arriving here as well. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Firlefanz)Sat, 05 Apr 2014 19:53:14 +0000 Spring is under way.https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246853,from=rss#post246853https://bthepaganporch.runboard.com/p246853,from=rss#post246853It arrived. Springtime in the mountains - the grass shot up over the last couple of days, needed mowing big time, when last week it had is dry dead look, now all green. Got the grasshopper mower out of the shed and checked it out, jumped on and had a pleasant hour of mowing, before the fuel warning sounded.. So back to the shed just in time. Froggy is happily mowing the lawn in front of the house, also low on fuel, but she can push the small mower. This spring we will be marking out a garden, if I can get the walking tractor fixed - it has a brush hog and a tiller implement, as well as a one furrow plough, but vandalism in Indiana damaged it - been waiting four years to get fixed as with the tractors in Washington we did not need it, so did not spend money on it. Procrastination is a bad thing. I should have fixed it before I needed it. We intend to build a hawk proof run and coop for chickens, maybe get a small breed goat or two, and get this homestead running. nondisclosed_email@example.com (muladzh)Sat, 05 Apr 2014 17:54:19 +0000