Just Dropping in to Say Hi & Spring Gardening Plans

   Hi everyone,

     Winter is returning late today into tomorrow with 3 inches or so of snow and low single digits-brrrr   Which of course will end up with ice under the snow again-but good news a warm up will start up late Sunday with a nice warming  next week.

   I will be planting lots of seeds in my water bottle "greenhouses" soon-will probably start that this weekend, and then put them out after the very cold spell.

  I also just ordered a pound of shade growing wildflower seeds. There is a small section of grass under a tree near the rock project-that I am going to kill off as soon as I can, and then plant some of these seeds in that area. My husband found a nice online site with different wildflower mixes-no fillers, and this one is 50-50 annuals and perennial seeds.  Also I had saved a seller on Ebay and just ordered his plants of bloodroot, goldenseal, and wild geranium which are all medicinal plants. I have an area around the little garden shed and down the hill on that side of the house-that I am going to kill the grass as well and plant these along with the shade wildflower seeds.  It stays pretty shady in that area. There is a small section of grass-weeds up on the side of our garage and the neighbors property line-that I am also going to kill off and plant perennial flowers of some sort.

  We were very unhappy with the mowing service we hired last year. Too expensive and poor quality-every week it was something else. With Biden's attack on our gas and oil energy independence cutting grass will be too expensive. Neither of us can handle a mower on these hills around the house-so I am thinking of looking into getting a weed eater of some sort and see if I can handle that-mostly the front of the house and a bit on the side til I work on getting rid of most of the grass here on the property. Thinking it will be pretty with all the wildflowers blooming.  This will also bring in the songbirds, butterflies, and bees  If we had extra money I would check into how expensive it would be to bring in rock and stone to the front of the house down to the lake-that would be perfect. I have no idea how costly that would be. Would be easier to maintain for sure.

   The last two evenings I have been reading a book I have never read, and it's one I thought I should read. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett a classic, first published in book form in 1911.  I really enjoyed this book and looking forward to reading some of her other books. There are so many different forms of the book now-If I were to buy a hardcover I would pick up the one illustrated by Tasha Tudor. If you have an ereader kindle- Amazon usually has these old classics selling very reasonable-under a couple dollars or sometimes free to read.

 I did not know this was made into a movie too-looking that up there are several movie versions, the best versions suggested was the 1949 (hmmm the year I was born ) and the 1975 versions

    The coconut macaroons are almost gone now, so need to decide what cookie I want to bake up next.

  Happy Thursday everyone