Jan 22 2017
Muddy
I finally got around to clearing up the worst of the storm damage around my house.
Several good-sized limbs had been removed from trees, and a couple of smallish trees were uprooted. I dragged the corpses out of the way and into the remaining woods. I didn’t rake up all the smaller fallen pieces, though, because we all know that there are more storms and more mess to come.
Speaking of mess, the clean up process was rendered messier and more challenging by Mark’s latest project. For reasons unknown to me, but presumably known to Mark, he decided to dig trenches to bury the electrical lines:
in the rainiest part of the year. This does not seem like a great idea to me, but then my knowledge of both trench digging and electrical systems is limited at best.
Burying the electrical wires that festoon our houses and surrounding trees does seem like a good idea, though, since they a) look terrible and 2) are more likely to come down in a storm, leading to further power outages. So I am willing to put up with the extra muddiness:
for now. Hopefully the mud will be graveled over when the project is finished.
While I was out there, I took a peek at the rest of the garden. The daffodils are beginning to poke through the soil:
as are the tulips:
I think I planted the tulips too late again – I should have done it around Thanksgiving instead of Christmas. I always want them to bloom in February along with the daffodils, but they really show up around March. Though March is the secret winter month no-one ever talks about.
The camellias still don’t have flower buds. They have never bloomed. I must be doing something wrong here. The main point of having them is to have flowers in the winter. I should ask Lichen about this. On the bright side, though, both of the orchids have flower spikes:
so they should be blooming pretty soon.
All in all, the garden came through the storms pretty well. Hopefully the rest of the winter won’t be too bad.
A YEAR AGO: A couple of coincidences.
FIVE YEARS AGO: Gorgeous shoes to covet.
2 Responses to “Muddy”
Daffodills & tulips coming through!!!! You are so lucky. We have months to go yet…
Enjoy!
JOyx
I agree with Joy, we are far for getting anything except snow, more snow, well a few days it got warm and we got rain but they are predicting another snow storm on Monday over Tuesday, well only about 15 Centimetres but no green around for a while.