leafette's Blog

At least I think so!  I have spent any spare time I've had trying to get thru most of the forums and recent blogs.  What a wonderful site.  I need to get a notebook so I can remember where some of the great ideas are.  I also need to stay caught up!

Still snow, cold and storms up above the 49th parallel. .  So my garden view is very much white.  I did get some garden books from the library but I've been kinda slow getting into them.  I have been inspired by the GG site.

DH and I moved the kitchen stove and shoved some cupboards around.  New cupboards are right up near the top of the to-do list and by shoving stuff around I can now 'see' what things will eventually look.  Same applys when I change things outside.  I need to shove things around, pile pots and stick up poles.  Then I can 'see' it.  It IS a little tough on the plants but I'm doing better and they aren'y quite as dizzy!

The house plant sectionof the forums  has me thinking once again about trying something more than my overwintered geraniums.  My fake palm is actually looking kinda life-like  now that it is kinda old and faded.  8^)  I had to give up on the real plants as my one dabbling in the silk plant home party era made all my real things look bad.  But my limited success outside may have turned my houseplant thumb a little greener.  I may have to check out some of these tropical plants.  If a tender rose can be an 'annual' then elephant ears can be,too.  I could get them to a decent size during the winter and then put them out for the garden  season.

Nothing tropical about the climate.  Our furnace went out for the second night in a row but I think Dh might have the problem licked this time.  The good news was that the old plaster walls hold the heat so things didn't get too chilly.  We are definitelty getting back-up heat for next winter. One of those grain burning stoves.  Rye, wheat, corn!  Who'd have thought?  You can grow winter fuel in the garden, well, maybe you need a whole field's worth!

I took an art quilting class.  I have a 2 story stairway and now I can garden in the winter.  I'll make a green forest or something for that long, narrow stairwell and the zone will definitely NOT matter. Heck, I can even think waterfall!   LOL

Visibility is down to half a mile as the wind picks up the recent snowfall.  Time to grab a cup of coffee and curl up with one of those garden books.

Leafette