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Mar 22, 2025 08:00AM
Starting to see tulips here. The plants, not the flowers yet, but that is something. Enough to make me hopeful. Lol.
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Jenn wrote: "Ugh, I wish 😞 the snow pack in my yard is still over a foot thick 🤦♀️ so I’m going to repot some houseplants in my kitchen lol"Yes, no yard work here. The driveway and sidewalks are clear, but the ground is still covered with snow.
My Christmas Cactus is about to bloom if that helps.
A green house sounds wonderful, Kristie. It's on my "want" list. I am not going to put in a veggie garden this year - maybe a few things in pots. We are tearing down the old sunroom and putting in a four season room and I know my back yard is going to be a mess this summer.I did though just spend the morning weeding my side flower beds and lots of little happy sprouts were waking up - always puts me in a good mood.
Oh no, Jenn. That is why we moved further south. There was too much snow in New England.
Yep, just have to keep reassuring myself that Spring is actually coming lol and Winter is only Eight months long lol
Peggy wrote: "I saw a couple of Egyptian geese with 7 little goslings! Definite sign of spring :D"We've got them too at the horse stables. Very beautiful animals. They have their little ones in the pastures.
All this garden activity here! We've started too and are now creating a vegetable garden (a little patch) in our garden. Before that, I rented a vegetable garden, but I needed to make time to go and the rules were very stricted.Now, at home, it's more lay back.
Also, the first foal is born the day before yesterday! There are still 2 to come in the next weeks. The owner is of course very happy and my horse (will be 26 years in May) had his first day at the pasture, after being on the winter paddock for a couple months. Of course he was very happy. Running around like a foal, then landing on his knees, acting there was nothing wrong and started grazing.
That's wonderful news, Saar! Lots going on at the farm.Jayme, my greenhouse is really just a frame and a tarp with windows. It's nothing fancy. We used to have our veggies in pots on the deck, but I bought a glider a few years back and it is in that spot so there is nowhere to put the pots now. I bought a couple of smaller raised beds to put in the yard, but wanted to protect them from the deer and squirrels so got the greenhouse to hopefully protect them a bit.
That sunroom to four season room change sounds like a big project. My husband has been wanting to do that for years. Maybe some day. For now, we need to focus on all the repairs inside. I completely understand not putting in a garden this year. I would have skipped it too.
I also cleaned out my my flower beds and the little areas in the front of the house, did some weed pulling and tree trimming, etc yesterday. It was a lot. I'm hoping to get the greenhouse started today.
Janice, seems a little late for a Christmas cactus to bloom. Does that usually happen in spring? We currently just have some Lillies and daffodils in one little spot. I got them in an Easter planter last year and planted them in my flower garden before they died. I was very happy to see they came back. I also have a bunch of wild violets blooming. Or maybe they are periwinkle because they are definitely trying to take over the place. Everything else is just budding and sprouting.
The one bad thing that comes along with all the early growth is early allergies. I love the better weather here. I do not enjoy the increase in allergies.
My Christmas cactus is also blooming. I'm chalking it up to a St Paddy's Day miracle.
There are actually two cacti that look the same, but one blooms around Christmas, and the other around Easter
Kristie wrote: "Janice, seems a little late for a Christmas cactus to bloom. Does that usually happen in spring? We currently just have some Lillies and daffodils in one little spot. I got them in an Easter plan..."
Like everything else in this household, my Christmas Cactus operates on its own timeline. It didn't flower for a couple of years, so now that it's deciding to flower, I don't care that it's past Christmas.
Maybe it's like Jenn said and it's an Easter Cactus.
I have an orchid like that. lol Blooms whenever it feels like it.
I believe that if the plant is happy enough to flower, then I should just be happy, enjoy it, and say thank you 🥰
Agreed! I'm really hoping my veggie garden is happy enough to produce something this year. lol
Kristie wrote: "Janice, seems a little late for a Christmas cactus to bloom. Does that usually happen in spring? We currently just have some Lillies and daffodils in one little spot. I got them in an Easter plan..."
I used to have 2 gorgeous christmas cacti and I had to give them away because of allergies :-(
It's been unusually warm and dry here for the past 4 weeks. We had 17C last week! I've been spending too much time drinking coffee on the deck and playing with plants in tubs - it's such a novelty here!
Theres horses in the field beside me, it varies from day to day, sometimes cows of sheep but I love when it's horses.
I'm debating about getting a patio umbrella and some privacy screen for my deck. It's west facing and gets way too hot to sit out in the summer. Plus it's at the front of the house so everyone driving by or walking by can see me. Then I could enjoy a coffee on the deck like Margo. We haven't reached 10C yet this spring.
Janice wrote: "I'm debating about getting a patio umbrella and some privacy screen for my deck. It's west facing and gets way too hot to sit out in the summer. Plus it's at the front of the house so everyone driv..."No sun here today Janice so it's a bit nippy, but come over the next sunny day we get and I'll gladly make you coffee - can't guarantee horses though!
That sounds like a lovely plan. It's 8C here right now and the sun is poring into the house through the front windows and it's a bit warmish in here.
Happy birthday, Christine!
Yesterday I was checking the main page of a book I was considering reading, and the third review I read said in its first line "Great vampire story!", and that was a complete spoiler... I will not link the book because I don't want to spoil it for anyone else, but jeez... Why are we in 2025 and still spoiling books??? Just venting a little.
I promise that I also have real problems. LOL . But that was a little frustrating.
Happy birthday, Christine!
Sandra wrote: "Yesterday I was checking the main page of a book I was considering reading, and the third review I read said in its first line "Great vampire story!", and that was a complete spoiler... I will not ..."That's not much of a spoiler. There are several vampire books. This sounds more like that the person wanted to warn those against monster books what they might be picking up.
Charissa wrote: "That's not much of a spoiler. There are several vampire books. This sounds more like that the person wanted to warn those against monster books what they might be picking up."That is a good point, but the thing with this book is that you are supposed to know only after half of the book that "that person" was so weird because they are a vampire. I will read it anyways (eventually) but I would have liked not to know that before hand.
HAPPY APRIL EVERYONE!
I've been having the worst 6 weeks ever and things seems not to be improving...I'm behind on all of my reading, including BR's in different groups. All because of bad feet.6 weeks ago I woke up with lots of pain on the bottom of both feet. Stuborn as a mule I am, I continued to walk on them, but you had to see me walk: I couldn't put them down properly, couldn't stand on the back of both heels. After sitting down or sleeping, standing up and starting walking was hell. Last week I got an echo of both feet and last Monday I've had the verdict: sever tendonitis on both feet. I've got heavy anti - inflammatories and need to start physiotherapy. To make things worse, it could be months until a year until I'm completely pain free.
Sorry for the rant, but it has been affecting my reading mood, my general mood...
I'm so sorry, Saar. Tendonitis is very painful. I understand how being in pain all the time might affect your mood. I hope the treatment will help you feel better soon. Do you know what triggered the tendonitis?
Big hugs Saar! So sorry to hear you're suffering from this.
I'm sorry to hear that, Saar. Problems with your feet are no joke. I wish you a speedy recovery.
Thanks everyone!@Sandra: at first no, but then I started to think and I might overdone myself while cleaning my horse's paddock every day with 4 filled wheelbarrows for a couple of months. So, maybe that was the trigger.
Sorry to see this, Saar. I hope the pain goes away quicker than expected.
It's so hard when your feet are in pain. I hope you get some relief soon.
Thanks, Kristie and Janice. The anti - inflammatories are taking a bit of the pain away.
Saar, you're having such a run of bad health lately! I hope you get some relief soon. Are you able to work and study through all this? How will you look after your horses?
I've got a cataract that needs surgery. It's causing very blurred vision in one eye. I can't see well enough to drive at night and daytime driving is becoming difficult.It was detected 6 months ago but I was told that it wouldn't be a problem for many years to come. Cut to last week - could barely see though it! I have been on steroids for joint three times in past 6 months.
I hope I can get the surgery quickly as I'm even finding it tricky to type at the moment and my speech to text software is not working.
I'm not really upset though - I was worried that something sinister was going on with my eye, given that I'd been told only 6 moths ago that the cataract wouldn't bother me in the short term. When the optician diagnosed me I was very relieved!
I can see how scary that might be, Margo! I hope you can get your surgery soon. It is really an easy one, and you will see better right away.
Fingers crossed you get your surgery soon, Margo. I've been told the same thing - very slow growing.
Yeah, I might think about laser surgery for my other eye afterwards!
Margo wrote: "Saar, you're having such a run of bad health lately! I hope you get some relief soon. Are you able to work and study through all this? How will you look after your horses?"Study and work has been difficult. I only have one horse and I go every day. I manage, but when evening comes, I'm exhausted. The pills take the edge a bit off of the pain.
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