This tulip comes up every year. And every year it blossoms. Just one little lonely tulip in my sad side flower bed. I’m not overly successful at flowers in the first place but you add heavy shade to the mix…well I’ve killed more flowers here than gotten them to bloom. But this one gives me hope! I’ve not killed it yet and miraculously it keeps coming back. I imagine that it must have been from hardy, tulip stock of yore because it was actually here before I was. I did move it to this bed though. It’s original location was in the middle of nowhere. This year’s blossom was particularly brilliant and I’ve enjoyed it all this past week.
One Lonely Tulip
Saturday, April 25th, 2009Potential
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009This is a very bad photo of our garden. But there is a reason for that! Our neighbors lovely house is north of the garden. So the pictures I have of the full garden include a very nice shot of the house. Didn’t think the neighbors would appreciate that. All those sticks right in the front are the boys’ plots. I can’t wait to take a similar picture in a month or two!!
Lil’B's favorite pastime is playing with the hoses and the nozzles. He’s my favorite pretend firefighter
Plotting out his garden with an eye for needed spacing. Such a cutie pie!
So many things that we could do….
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009We spent a few hours in the wind today working in the garden. The boys both bought marigolds. I’m letting almost anything go except plants that will take over their plots like the vines and corn. So marigolds were planted. We found some Nasturtium seeds that we’ll put in this week too. I’m battling squash bugs and hoping for a pre-emptive strike with pretty flowers they don’t like!
I found a new project with the Lost Ladybug! I had forgotten about it. I can’t remember when exactly I stumbled into it but I’m excited to be reminded. Now just to re-find the lady bugs we found a few weeks ago!
I’m also ready to start my 100 Species up again. I had some photos for winter but most (if not all) were grasses. I am not that great at identifying grasses. And in fact I get quite frustrated and end up giving up quickly. But we’ve got a huge thistle that we’re going to photograph before we chop it out. And a couple other fun much easier to identify things popping up!
Our goslings are now about 8 to 10 inches tall. They’ll be moving out of the brooder box shortly which means we have to hop to it with our gosling fence. Once they are fully grown we’ll run them in a large enclosure but not for awhile yet. So there is a project we’re working on too.
What projects are filling your days?
And just because I feel like it here’s a Grace in Small Things list:
1. Jack Prelutsky with breakfast
2. Volcanoes for lunch
3. Small stories by Jr. for snack time
4. Orange flowers and happy boys.
5. Imaginary Fire with real boys and real hose but no real fire









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