I hate it when my family’s gone. It screws up my sleeping process. No bathtime, no Elmo video, no group toothbrush… I end up watching two hours of stupid TV (I guess that’s redundant) and doing blog posts at 2:AM.
Well, anyway, took some pictures today during a break in the rain:
Da ladies [...]

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I should really take some pictures, but just to jot down some updates after spending an unusually sunny day outside today:

The mason bees are starting to hatch. One literally popped the seal off his tube while I was watching today. How a little critter like that can flick a chunk of mud about [...]

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OK, firstly, I’m not actually angry at Gurney’s. What’s more, I didn’t send the stuff back for a refund (which they promise) because it wasn’t worth the time. Who knows? It might grow and be the best stuff I’ve ever planted. I seriously doubt that, but anything’s possible. Bush [...]

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I decided to take Gurney’s up on a coupon they sent me recently. I’d only ever ordered an apple tree from them, and I thought I’d see how their other stuff was.
Wow. It showed up this morning and was the worst example of mail order nursery stock I’ve ever seen. Not only [...]

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Our first fatality in chicken farming. Dippy had to be “sent out to a farm in the country” this morning. She wasn’t getting any better, and some signs of deterioration were more than I cared to ride out. I’ll be sorely disappointed if I end up in hell because I didn’t give [...]

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