stubbed toes and mud pies

[flowerbug]

with the rain we had the other night it was enough to help soften up the ground i was trying to dig the other day so that today i was able to get it kinda dug up a bit and cultivated so i can plant some peas at last next time i get outside. finally i will give peas a chance.

 

[flowerbug]

i think the killdeer out front got blown away by the big storm we had last week. Mom said there were two eggs left in their nest, but i've not heard a peep out of them for days and usually i would hear them once in a while. perhaps two eggs got eaten by a snake and then the storm and they decided to move on to another location to try again. not sure what happened...

the killdeer nest inside the fence is still there last time i looked.

 

[flowerbug]

these rains will help soften things up for planting. it was getting pretty tough out there.

everything i planned on doing yesterday got upended and the peas remain unplanted.

i've also somehow injured a finger that now complains too often and so with these rains i will probably not try to do too much and hope it recovers. of all things on my left hand - my mouse hand. still at least it does not hurt when i'm using the computer but it's amazing how you find out how much you use a certain finger in a certain way when this sort of thing happens. it reminds me of the times when i broke my left collar bone and the left shoulder blade and in both of those cases i found out how moving my left foot could cause things to hurt at the other end of my body... <taps left foot> but at least hand doesn't hurt so i'm doing ok with this round...

 

[flowerbug]

making a little headway today on website project for a change.

at least got one update to post correctly with all needed files and it looks like it should.

it's a picture from last winter when we had a reflection from a mirror outside that almost lined up right on the basket and i managed to see it and get a picture:

because i have the date and time captured right in the filename and i keep my camera time fairly synchronized with the timekeepers at NIST it works out as a pretty good way to figure out the angles and degrees if i ever need to do that to find out the particular angle the sun is hitting that mirror and then to isolate which mirror it is and which of the decorations it might be from. however, i'm not going to do that today, but let me say it might be one from Igor...

but it may be a different one, it sure isn't the same one that give us this reflection:

 

[flowerbug]

the rains arrived a few minutes ago. i put on Christmas music.

back to work...

 

[Marie2020]

i think the killdeer out front got blown away by the big storm we had last week. Mom said there were two eggs left in their nest, but i've not heard a peep out of them for days and usually i would hear them once in a while. perhaps two eggs got eaten by a snake and then the storm and they decided to move on to another location to try again. not sure what happened...

the killdeer nest inside the fence is still there last time i looked.

I hope she comes back

 

[flowerbug]

when i went outside this morning to plant the peas there were little killdeer babies running around so they've hatched and perhaps that is what happened to the others too? i don't know for sure as i've not seen them out front.

the peas did get planted and then i went to the horseshoe garden and got the edge along the grass turned and then scraped the rest of it. not much breeze and pretty warm out there so i'm in for a break for a few hours and then will go back out and plant cosmos.

last season i'd picked seeds from a lot of the yellow flowering ones and will replant those in the horseshoe and if i get a chance will weed out any of the flowers that are orange. yellow with a bit of red on the edges i'll leave alone as those are pretty flowers. Mom would like ones that are mostly yellow and i'm ok working on this sort of project even if i don't know yet how possible it might be. my indications from years ago was that this blend is selectable so we'll see how it goes.

 

[flowerbug]

cosmos planted and watered, but not really sure how well this is going to go because i tried something different.

normally i would scratch a shallow trench and put some seeds in there and then gently cover them up and then water in.

the garden soil back there is so hard and clumpy and shallowly cultivated that i could not easily get any kind of trench put in so while i did cultivate it to break up some of he clumps the rest were going to have to stay and break down with the rains and whatever the elements throw at them.

i sprinkled seeds along "rowsishes" and then used the cultivator to encourage some seeds to be partially covered by some dirt and debris, but i'm sure a fair number of them are not covered. i also walked on them a few times just in case that would help. then watered them as well as i could using the watering cans.

tomorrow i'll get the hoses hooked up - it's almost that time (beans, peppers, tomatoes, onions)... and give them and the peas a good soaking.

 

[Marie2020]

cosmos planted and watered, but not really sure how well this is going to go because i tried something different.

normally i would scratch a shallow trench and put some seeds in there and then gently cover them up and then water in.

the garden soil back there is so hard and clumpy and shallowly cultivated that i could not easily get any kind of trench put in so while i did cultivate it to break up some of he clumps the rest were going to have to stay and break down with the rains and whatever the elements throw at them.

i sprinkled seeds along "rowsishes" and then used the cultivator to encourage some seeds to be partially covered by some dirt and debris, but i'm sure a fair number of them are not covered. i also walked on them a few times just in case that would help. then watered them as well as i could using the watering cans.

tomorrow i'll get the hoses hooked up - it's almost that time (beans, peppers, tomatoes, onions)... and give them and the peas a good soaking.

Peas were planted here this morning
My broad beans seems to be growing nicely. I hope my purple beans will catch on to.

 

[Marie2020]

@flowerbug
How is your finger?