At least the planters are being put to good use, since its still to chilly to put them outside. This one in particular since its a pepper plant, notoriously fickle and delicate.  Obviously they make a wonderful napping spot for Buffy. She won’t stay out, actually. She’s not digging or making a mess, she just [...]

I did manage, in the 30 minutes of sunshine we had this long weekend, to get another thing checked off my to-do list: a bird bath for the backyard. All the lovely red-winged blackbirds are back, along with the little brown birds (I am SUCH an Ornithologist, so precise with the naming of the birds [...]

This is what happens when you let me go into a garden center, on the long weekend,  surround by beautiful greenery and things I CAN’T PLANT BECAUSE ITS SNOWING. Ok that was my bitterness coming through there, totally. I went to Home Depot (that in itself was enough self torture, but wait, the story continues) [...]