FishinBC's Blog

Supposed to rain all weekend…
May 23, 2007 | 10:47 AM PST
Tags: elephant ears , cone flowers , leaf lettuce , spinach , birds , peppers

So that means that the decks won’t get finished.  Oh well. 

 

Brought some pallets home last night and will work on getting them put together for a compost bin.  My Friday is today, so tomorrow I will work on that and can start filling it with the pile I have been saving.

 

Just putts’d around last night dead heading flowers and checking on things.  I bought a cone flower and put it in the ground.  I think I am going to get some more and put them in the bed where the squirrels did a number on my petunias.  There are already some sunflowers coming up there from the bird seed.  I left them to grow for the birds.

 

 I need to harvest more lettuce and spinach tonight, so salad is in order with dinner.  Checked the peppers and they are all blooming now or have little peppers.  The cukes and squash are going crazy since it has warmed up again.

 

And surprise, surprise…one of the elephant ears that I planted before the freeze and that I thought was a lost cause suddenly made and appearance over night.  It wasn’t there when I was checking on things last night and viola! this morning it is 4 inches high!!  I hope the other two made it also.  Guess I will know in a few days.

Watered the herbs on the deck and filled the bird bath on the deck with fresh water.  Came back in and watched all the birds come to bath while I cleaned up the dinner dishes.  One tit mouse was a hoot, it would sit on the side of the bath then slip off the side into the water and waded across a few times; none of the usually flapping and fluttering with this guy (must be a kid with an aversion for bathing).  A chickadee came and soaked itself really well then sat in the tree preening itself.  The Summer Tanagers come to bath every evening also, and last night they did some bee hunting from the tree, picking off a few victims from the verbena potted on the deck railings.  They caught them then took them back to the oak to bang them to death against the limb before eating them.