December Days
New month, y'all. What's everybody doing these days?
We had our second freeze last night and it polished off just about anything that made it through the one on Thanksgiving. It's now time to get the leaves out of the beds and get things cut down. We had a reasonably nice day in the low 50's today, but we're on the downhill side of the warm daytime temps.
But it's time for that December countdown I look forward to every year: Three weeks till the shortest day of the year. Then they're all longer after that! Yea!!
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
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I can't believe that December is here already! I still have bulbs to get in the ground, November was the mildest that I've seen in a very long time with absolutely no snow-fall this late in the year. I think it's broken a 67 year old record or something.
My lycoris has sent up leaves but I didn't get any bloom, so I'm hoping for next year! I'm wondering whether I can plant the bulbs in pots and just stick them in the gh for the winter, I'm a little worried about the mice tho', the warm weather seems to have them out in droves. I've seen the red-tail hawks just come swooshing down and picking them off the back lawn during the day!
3 months and 3 weeks till spring! woohoo!
I think this thread had more (post #11544, reply #2 of 10)
I think this thread had more posts in it this morning before the update, and I'm pretty sure one of them was mine.
North Carolina - zone 7
Absolutely had more posts. I (post #11544, reply #3 of 10)
Absolutely had more posts. I got a notification that I had gotten a msg from Deb and I didn't even get to read it! By the time I got to the computer they were converting. That means I had posted as well!
Omg! There is no edit button (post #11544, reply #4 of 10)
Omg! There is no edit button to fix the heinous spelling errors that sometimes happen on this phone! Good grief. I hate it when I misspell. One of my little "things".
Oh man, I *hate* this new (post #11544, reply #5 of 10)
Oh man, I *hate* this new format. Hate it. It sux. Hard.
Yes, my reply is gone now (post #11544, reply #6 of 10)
Yes, my reply is gone now (whatever it was) and I think this was the topic that had the "rat" comments.
Official complaint from here: (post #11544, reply #8 of 10)
Official complaint from here: Its hard to inconspicuously reading without atttracting attention from co workers when the whole freaking screen is day-glo green.
I survived the prospero changeover without grumbling, but this kills it for me... just when I had come back too.
Guys, my eyes are burning.
If it can die, I can kill it.
Certified Brown Thumb, 4th degree
Yes, I remember there was (post #11544, reply #9 of 10)
Yes, I remember there was something about rats. Somehow things had segued into my bragging about what great weather we've had here and what all is still blooming in my garden today: roses, salvias (puberula, uliginosa, 'Betsy's Choice', 'Silke's Dream', some microphylla hybrids, 'Henry Duelberg'), Tinantia pringleii, clematis 'Ramona', Echeandia, forsythia. Not that I really get to see any of it, since it gets dark before I get home from work. In case anybody might get mad at me, I had noted that the hard freeze coming this weekend is going to be a great equalizer. (But I'm going to just slip into my new greenhouse then.)
North Carolina - zone 7
I'm with you! I can't even (post #11544, reply #7 of 10)
I'm with you! I can't even find the first replies either!
I had some problems last nite with the computer and it took me two hours to get everything straightened up to find this this morning!
This time of the year I (post #11544, reply #10 of 10)
This time of the year I always get rake elbow, rake shoulder, rake back. But the rewards are free mulch for the winter and it is beautiful. The fresh Long-Leaf Pine needles really make the garden pop!