rockybane's Blog

Building My Fence!
Mar 13, 2008 | 8:06 AM PST
Tag: fence

I am sooooo excited! We are finally building my post fence I have wanted around the  south side of my yard! I'm taking about a 20x200 stretch of field to become more yard. More mowing, but more places for flowering objects, also!

It has a barb wire fence there now, that's all we've ever had around it, of course, to keep the cattle on their side, even though it is so old that some of the calves just step through and come into the yard whenever they want-lol. I call them my yard calves.

So, I've been wanting this post fence for several years, even cut some of the posts myself, before my knee became an issue.

Guess hubby finally took pity on me. It's been a rough winter, and I don't deal with winter real well, just a lot of griping, but anyway, hubby told me Sunday that he would cut 6-10 posts each evening after he got home, and we'd put them in every night.

So far we have 14 or so posts put in, actually 28 because of the way we're building it. When it gets a little farther along I'll post some pictures of it.
 

I can hardly wait to get it put up, so I can start planting things in that part of my "new yard".

Waiting Impatiently For Spring
Mar 6, 2008 | 9:32 PM PST
Tags: seeds , blooming , birds , lily , strawberries , snow

We're supposed to get 2-5 inches of snow here tonight---maybe....the line they draw is around 10 miles south of here, and the snow is supposed to be south of that, just hope the snow remembers that and stays where it's supposed to.

Last week we were supposed to get 10 inches of snow, and we didn't get any, while all around us they got 5-12 inches of snow. That is the kind of mis-forecast I like!

Tomorrow I am going to start some seeds indoors and see how I do. I've said before that I don't have much success at that, but you know the old saying, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again". So I will.

 I  have just a few packets of seeds right now that I've been gathering little by little,  so tomorrow I will start some Crimson Rambler Morning Glory, Heavenly Blue Morning Glory, some old fashioned single bloom hollyhocks, and some peppers and tomatoes. I'm also going to try to plant some spinach outside and see what happens.

I'm waiting on a Stella d Oro lily I ordered that hasn't shown up yet, I love that bright yellow color. 

I have some zinnia and marigold seed too, but I don't know if I'll start them now or not, I usually just throw them down outside when the time is right.

There is more I'm going to try, in time. I have always wanted to grow strawberries, and just haven't committed to them yet, but this may be the year.
 

 My knee that was giving me trouble still is, a little, but it is much better, and I can't wait to get outside and start doing something.  The birds are singing, the peepers are peeping, the crocuses are blooming, the daylilies are sprouting, the brown grass is even standing up straight--everything knows that spring is almost here, and I feel so antsy, just waiting, waiting, waiting......