witt's Blog

Mission for Today: Play outdoors again before the next cold blast!

The next task on Son's list was to prune the fig tree for me. It's funny how when the tree had leaves on it, it was higher than the house, but without leaves, it doesn't look nearly as big as it was this summer. It was really cold out, but I warmed up moving away the cut branches. I took cuttings of the dormant twigs. I had read how to root them, so I'm giving it a try. Maybe I'll luck up and make some babies.

Can you believe that I remembered to take a "before" picture?

Here's the "after" shot.

I sure hope that we did the right thing.

Mission for today: Remember the old adage -- Sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness rather than permission.

Oooh! Just as I sat down to write this, something caught my eye. I looked out the window and saw that it was snowing! Oh, no. Not again. I sure hope this is just a small flurry.

One of my gardening buddies came by after we had been snowbound for over a week. She said that she had brought me some "goodies." I looked in the bag. Oh, yuck. What in the world is that!? It looked like cassowary scat!

She said that it was calla lily seeds. I looked closer and then I could tell what it was. I've never seen any seeds since I've never even seen mine bloom! She said that there are three or four seeds in each fuzzy pod, so I'm interested to see if I can have success with this. I love trying something new.

If anyone has ever tried this, do let me know.

Mission for today: Smile and accept what comes my way.

Mission for today: Figure out if normalcy is normal.

Finally! Escape from the frozen tundra. Son came yesterday to shovel us out from under this mess. It was his first chance to come because we are way out in the country, and he couldn't get to us even when he wanted to. The snow melted enough for him to get halfway up our driveway, but he got stuck in the middle and he had to shovel his way up to get to the house.

When he finally got a path, he and Hubby went into town for supplies. Yay! We now have bread and milk! He said that it looked like we were the only people in the county that were still completely covered with snow.

Here's the picture of the Patio Garden from the last blog, showing how much the snow had melted.

This is what it looked like yesterday. See I told you there were stumps under those pots.

Mission for today: Be thankful for sons, shovels, and ice melt.

Believe it or not, this is the Patio Garden. There has been a little melting of snow. I can now see the "chicken thingy." Some of you may recall that I had hens and chicks in this metal "chicken thingy." (I never knew what it was called or what it was for. It was a gift from years ago. I didn't know what to do with it, so I planted it and put it outside.) It was totally covered in snow, but today it is peeking out. The two other snowcapped items in the picture are pots, which are sitting on stumps! You can't even see the stumps! Now that's deep for us!

Mission for today: Pray for more heat with this sunshine!

Here's a picture of our driveway. Not much use in shoveling unless you want to shovel two hundred or more feet.

The close-up here may give you and idea that the road dips down into a sharp curve, which has a ravine on each side.

Hmmm. I remember that we tried to navigate this course in the snow a few years ago, and it took a couple of days before we retrieved the truck. When will we ever be on the road again?

Mission for today: Stay put!

I thought that the snow would never quit falling yesterday. Once it finally stopped in the afternoon, Hubby went out and measured. It was seven and one half inches. Way too much for my liking. The birds were everywhere! The problem was the crows started coming and when they came, the songbirds flew away. I kept trying to scare them by banging on the door, but that wasn't working very well. They would fly off into the trees only to return shortly thereafter. Finally, Hubby tired of my futile efforts and went out with the shotgun. He gave them a blast up into the air. The crows left and the songbirds returned. It's only going to reach 33 today, so there won't be much melting going on. Thank goodness the nandinas bore berries this year. They are almost as pretty as the cardinals in the snow.

(Why are all my pictures of the snow pixelated? What am I doing wrong?)

Mission for Today: Water the houseplants!! They have been neglected.

We woke up to snow again this morning. We had four inches the day after Christmas. Everything is covered. It is coming down now much harder and bigger flakes than it was this morning at five when I got up. Six inches now, and it's still falling. After the snow, they say we will be getting sleet and ice. That's what we definitely DON'T want!

Hubby has just come in from feeding the chickens. We haven't had any eggs in months and look what he found. I guess the snow scared the cluck out of somebody.

It appears that we'll be snowbound for a few days. I've already put on me woolies.

Mission for today: Snuggle up, tat, and watch the snow fall. Heaven forbid that I use this time to do any housework.