Yesterday morning there was a little bit of snow on the streets hardly enough to show on a photo . But this morning we got some more serious snowfall . And while i'm writing this post it is still snowing

Good day , Today we went to a garden center / nursery

Greetings, friends of #hiveGarden, this Sunday, I was fortunate enough to attend a plant exhibition at the Parque La Estación exhibition hall in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The stand that caught my eye was

A couple weeks ago I planted a "garlic starter kit" which includes different kinds of bulbs of garlic and shallots. I soaked the cloves and planted them in beds, and a few weeks later I have

East of Steps: Daffodil 'Tweety Bird' On Monday morning my general helper asked to come on Friday instead, so I didn’t have to set up for making chicken stock. I got the kitchen cleaned up and worked on

Winter’s back…sigh… Not much interesting around here since Thursday. Friday was exercise class and I came home and slept. Saturday I worked on bills/budget most of the day. Sunday I went shopping first

On Monday I went to exercise class then home to work on laundry and cleaning up the kitchen, then back to the Senior Center for a lecture on bird migration. It was the same lecturer who did birds at your

On Sunday morning my friend and I set off at 9:30AM for the Mt. Holyoke Bulb Show. I’d been the week before with another friend, but one can never get too much of that scent and the colors! This time I

Larry is not happy with my new gadabout lifestyle. For the last 9 months he’s been here, I’ve been on the farm most of the time. On Monday I left at 9:30AM, back at home and inside for 10 minutes at noon,

On Monday my friend and I got to the bulb show at Mt. Holyoke just after 10AM. Just as we were going in, a bus arrived and unloaded. I thought, oh, no! It will be wicked crowded! But for some reason only

Once we’d finished at the Orchid Show, we stopped to pick up an order for cat food for the starving house cat. Then we headed quickly north and west for our brunch. Once we got to the top of the mountain

Thursday morning I never got up until 7AM so I had to get chores done first: pulling up shades, feeding cats, etc. Then I started on the blog. I was half done when my brother came down and announced he’d

Thursday was a rain off and on day, so no gardening. My new helper and I headed out to drop the car to be inspected again and then went shopping. When we got back I discovered that they had re-inspected

On Friday I thought I had 6 hours of windows ahead of me. I’d made an appointment for 8AM. Well, “I” made an appointment, the vendor neglected to write it in. The worker never showed up. They said they’d

First rugosa roses On Monday morning I had a long list to try to get through. I got laundry started, watered seedlings, did chores, and decided to plant the tulips first. I wasn’t putting them in without

I got a photo of the oak with the sun on the flowers. On Thursday I was out early. I had a lot to do before we could plant the trees. First I got all the hoses out. Certain ones work best in certain areas,

I didn’t get much done at all this week with the cold getting much worse on Tuesday. Not too functional when I cough so much. But I was some better on Thursday, able to sit at my desk and get the bills

When my brother and I did the windows on Sunday he found this brand new nest in the azalea. There was a very attentive robin hanging around, so I expect it was his. There was nothing in it yet. It had