Winter Cleaning

[catjac1975]

The ground is at a gross stage. Frozen with the top layer unfrozen so it is slippery with mud and a bit of ice. The chickens have been let into the vegetable garden and they are venturing out to the farthest points since the snow is nearly gone. We never had much snow but it has lingered since Christmas. It's too soon to start my seeds though I can probably start a few tomatoes soon for the tunnel greenhouse.

 

[catjac1975]

I have a bad infestation of chick weed. It grows all winter no matter how cold it gets. The animals do love it but it seems to grow best in my daylily beds. I am one of the few northerners who needs to weed in the winter.

At least the weeds won't overtake you at this time of year. You've won a victory...for now!

I went out and did the same thing today. It was a great day for a little garden clean-up. 45 degrees, a little sun, no rain, no wind. I'll take it!

 

[Mattemma]

It is 60 here.I cleaned the coop and swept up leaves.

 

[897tgigvib]

I had to look up ugh boots Ninny. At first I thought you meant, "ugh, boots!", ha! Oh, those, soft leather tallish girl type boots with wool stuff inside them.

Hmmm, makes this ole neanderthal think of some serious ICE AGE boots! Wooly Mammoth leather, well chewed and softened! Wild sheep fur stuffed down them just right, all the way up, rubbed with beached whale blubber well rendered over a beach fire!

Now THOSE would be some serious, ugh, boots! Always trust your local Neanderthal to improve the modern human inventions!

 

[ninnymary]

Marshall, I mispelled the word, supposed to have been UGG! Yep, they are soft and warm.

Mary

 

[thistlebloom]

Marshall, I mispelled the word, supposed to have been UGG! Yep, they are soft and warm.

Mary

Haha Mary! I thought your original spelling was you making a joke!

I'm easily entertained....

 

[897tgigvib]

Ha! No wonder when I google imaged it, at first it corrected me and made a huge list, but when I corrected it back (to your incorrect spelling which I thought was right), there were only a couple pages of images. I guess a couple pages of websites also misspelled it ugh!

 

[vfem]

UGG boots are NOT in budget. Gorgeous, and soft and just DELICIOUS looking to me... can't afford them.

However, they wouldn't get long periods of wear here anyways, its just not that cold.

The weekend hit the 70's here, so we upgraded one of the chicken coops (they're loving it) and did some last minute clean up of pots and more weeds out of more beds. Chick-weed is EVERYWHERE right now, but the chickens got a huge pile of it and were over joyed.

Tomorrow we leave and we'll be enjoying sun and 80's in Florida... so no worries about the garden until next week. Will miss you all!!!

 

[897tgigvib]

Enjoy Florida, and be safe in your travels!