Planetary Verbosity

I’m sitting here, home from work on a Tuesday! No, I’m not sick. I usually work Monday through Friday, but we had to pick a day to work over Memorial Day weekend (typically a busier time for home improvement stores – especially the garden center). I chose to work Saturday and have off Tuesday, because [...]

This is a continuation of yesterday’s entry…and, ironically enough (considering the title), it’s raining today. Here are some of the other photos from Sunday and Monday. First, there weren’t nearly as many carpenter bees flying around recently, but I did notice a few. Here’s one covered in lots of pollen, enjoying the honeysuckle bush. The [...]

After nearly a week’s worth of steady rain, we finally had some nice weather, just in time for a visit to our homestead. Of course, since we hadn’t been there in a week and there had been plenty of “fuel” for it, the grass had grown to near-jungle proportions. Our first order of business was [...]

It’s been raining almost non-stop here since late Friday. There was a very brief appearance by the sun this afternoon, but other than that, it’s been dreary and depressing all week. Snoopy was even sick on Monday and Tuesday because he gets so depressed when it rains. It’s supposed to be nice by the weekend, [...]

As we figured would happen any day now, our lilacs had really started blooming by the time we made our Tuesday homestead visit. I’ll only post one picture here since I have photos of other things to share, but this one is pretty representative of what we have so far. They’re not in full bloom [...]