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Meet one of the neighborhood bunnies

Michele — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:43:58 +0000

Baby Birds

Michele — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:00:39 +0000

Gardening friends

Michele — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:57:23 +0000

A useful article on some of my least favorite gardening friends. Reading the first hand experiences in the comments really helps you understand when bites most often occur, and what happens when they do.

Don’t click if you’re afraid of spiders! You know who you are! :p

http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/2322/

What is this white stuff?

Michele — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:48:39 +0000

At first, it was innocent and pretty…

A few hours later, however, it got worse:

The front view wasn’t much better, albeit pretty in its own way:

Pogle actually went out in the middle of the night and whacked our two dogwoods (one of which is the tree above) with a broom to knock the snow off, hoping to prevent the weight from snapping any branches.

Alas, there were still casualties:

A closeup of the damage:

The snow caused another problem in our neighborhood: we lost power for approximately 30 hours. And it was cooooold! We ended up sticking our milk and butter in the snow to keep it cold (temperatures were below freezing) and piling the ferrets into the bedroom with us overnight.

Where we learned that ferrets snore, very very cutely.

A rather unexpected adventure in our neck of the woods. Thankfully, pog and I were able to rely on each other and get through without any major losses to our home or budget.

A final victim:

One perfectly frozen Daffodil.

Let me introduce you to some of our new friends.

Michele — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:29:43 +0000

I discovered my new gardening friend the other day while working in the yard; yesterday, I was able to sneak up and get a picture of him while hanging out laundry:

And Pogle met this guy upon entering the house after work last night:

He has since decided the TV is a much comfier home than Pogle’s head, however, and now resides near Argy the Dragon and Dust Puppy (Earl Grey the Dragon has taken to playing with sharp pointy things and is currently banned from the TV).

Decorative and functional?

Michele — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:24:25 +0000

I’m hoping I have enough brick left over to do something like this to a corner of the front yard where pog and I are always cutting across:

Just imagine that the brick is flush with the concrete.

In my head I see getting a post light put in between the brick and the dogwood, as well as ground cover or small plants all the way from the tree to the brick. What do you think?

May I have some more, sir?

Michele — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:01:52 +0000

Pogle wanted everyone to see what 3 tons (he says) of brick looked like:

My new 225 gallon rain water tank:

And a shot of the volunteer daffodil blooming:

Now to try and get the ferret to sleep again (it’s 4 AM). >.<

Why can’t I have normal weeds like everyone else?

Michele — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:51:58 +0000

Mutants #1-6:

(bonus toe for scale)

Mutant #7:

At least there were a couple of rays of sunshine in my garden:

Volunteers!

On childhood Tetris viewings…

pogle — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:28:10 +0000

I was complimented on my brick-stacking ability while we were unloading my truck tonight. All those hours of watching my mom destroy tetris as a child had to pay off in some way, right?

Of course, its equally possible all those hours spent playing Stronghold and building castles affected it somewhat too. Videogames are good for a lot more than creating killing machines out of today’s youth, take it from me!

Can’t sleep, the gnomes will eat me. Can’t sleep, the gnomes will eat me.

Michele — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:15:00 +0000

Unless…

(Gnome Be Gone, image copyright http://www.cleanairgardening.com/)