Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

Can I dream of spring gardening too ?

 

[jvls1942]

Barb, instead of planting the dried bulbs, try to
get the sets with the green stems. the bulbs are
more for green onions. the green sets are started from
seed and tend to give you larger onions in the end.
If you have the patience of Job, plant seeds. but they
are extremely hard to weed, especially when they first
come up..
it's six a m . I have been up for two hours. had my
coffee. still not feeling tired enough to go back to bed.
Yesterday the new gramma and great aunt came to meet
the new baby. I don't think gramma was as excited when she
had her own baby..
they stayed and ate the lasagna, well most of it..
I am not a big pasta fan. I eat a token amount.
I will chow down on the left over meat loaf..

 

[Callender Girl]

Jim, when I went to Menards today, I looked at seeds, thinking MAYBE I would try planting onions -- which would be crazy because patience is NOT one of my virtues. All they had were spring onions and Walla Walla, and I didn't get those. But, I spotted an heirloom butterhead lettuce, Four Seasons, that is wonderfully colorful and I couldn't resist. It allegedly does well in containers, which would make it easier to protect from garden-raiding rabbits.

Not a pasta fan? Oh, Jim, how can that be possible? I've rarely met a pasta I didn't adore.

The past 24 hours have been very special for Eleanor. The vet said my frostbitten girl could stop taking twice-daily Epsom salt baths -- which was greatly appreciated by both of us. A few minutes ago, after a trip to town to stock up on Vetericyn in case any of her new, thin skin breaks open, I went upstairs and removed her foot wraps. She's had bandages on her feet since Christmas.

And, it's above freezing again today!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I'm starting to hope we may have an early spring this year and I can be planting in March. It's happened a few springs. Last year's spring crops never grew, so I'm due some make up time by my calculations.

 

[jvls1942]

It's funny what a little sun will do to a body.
Barb, maybe you might want to start the onions
inside . they are like hair when they first come up.
glad the chicken sitting is over. I hope she appreciated
it while it lasted. ungrateful kids..
I had Ollie out for a ride. it didn't last long. a bolt fell
out of a bracket and the loader caught the bracket and
bent it like a pretzel. today I checked it out and decided
I can straighten it and won't have to buy a new one.
all it will cost me is about a half hour of labor and a new bolt.
easy , cheap fix for a change.
the snow forecast should stay well to the south of us.
I want to scrape the thin layer of snow on top of the ice
so the sun can melt the ice. a lot of snow has melted already.
I want to get it scraped to avoid it turning into slush.
tonight should be Randy's last night with us.
Thursday he is going to a new/different group home.
Annie is not going to renew our license.
seventeen years is enough. I was ready to give it up
after one year.

 

[Callender Girl]

Jim, good luck with fixing Ollie, and cheaply at that!

I am thrilled that the winter storm originally predicted for today has moved to the east. Hope the snow doesn't get all the way to Wisconsin!

My indoor seed-starting skills are pretty nonexistent. At some point, I will under or over water and kill whatever I put in the soil.

Eleanor loves her new roost; the old carrier wasn't tall enough for her to perch on anything. However, she is now pretending she can't get off the roost. She wants me to hold her waterer up to her face so she can drink while sitting. The location of her poop tells me that she is faking me out and is totally able to get up and down -- when I'm not around and she wants to.

I am used to being manipulated by dogs, cats, even goats and sheep. This is a new low for me.

 

[jvls1942]

I am not a happy camper today. Long story short,
Randy is not leaving us today like they said. They
now claim that they do not transport people.
Funny, when he came here , he was delivered by
a medivan.. can we say "gaslighted" boys and girls?
they somehow passed the job onto Randy's son.
probably the most unreliable person on the planet.
He supposedly will transport Randy next Monday.
Annie is so passive, I am feeling like voicing my
opinion. She doesn't want me to do that.
looks like it could snow any minute here. 32F.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Sorry Jim. I may have missed who Randy was. I wouldn't want to share my home with other people. Sorry about Ollie too. Hopefully we don't get any snow to interfere with the melting we are expecting after today.

Barb good to hear your hen is feeling better. I tried starting onions once in the house. Really hard to divide them. I'm pretty abusive on seedlings. It weeds out the weaklings.

 

[jvls1942]

Sorry Jim. I may have missed who Randy was. I wouldn't want to share my home with other people. Sorry about Ollie too. Hopefully we don't get any snow to interfere with the melting we are expecting after today.

Barb good to hear your hen is feeling better. I tried starting onions once in the house. Really hard to divide them. I'm pretty abusive on seedlings. It weeds out the weaklings.

sorry, i sometimes forget who I told what.
Randy is our resident in our family group home.
he has been with us for five years. before that we had
a man named Ken for 11 years..
anyhow, when Randy came here, he had a car and
could come and go as he pleased. he has diabetis, as time
went on he lost his toes, one or two at a time. finally
he has both feet cut off half way to the heel. now he
is wheelchair bound. getting too much to handle for
us old people. next week Annie is having her pacemaker
replaced. that will mean lifting restrictions. 10 pounds
maximum. Randy weighs 189 ponds. I am restricted to
lifting 30 pounds temporarily. so Annie decided to not
renew the license which expires in March..
today I contacted the nurse and didn't back down.
I told her what I wanted . she said that she had to make
a phone call and would get back to us. it took about
20 minutes. all set. Randy is leaving us at 10AM tomorrow.
Annie called his new home and they are aware he is coming.
She called the transportation company and they will pick
him up at ten AM..
I guess thirty years as a contractor taught me a little
how to get things done, lol

 

[Callender Girl]

Lisa, LOVE the "weeds out the weaklings" comment. That's my approach to house plants. If they can't take the neglect, they need to just hurry up and expire. I do have a few that have put up with me for decades.

Jim, good work on standing your ground!