It's cold here (for my area). 12F (-11C) twice this week, and another week of that to come. That is close to record lows here and even then, it is usually just a night or tho. Extended cold like that is very unusual.
Trump made a joke about "Global Warming" being (therefore) obviously a hoax. Does he remember that this day last year, it reached 70F here? Probably not. I think "last week" is a vague concept to him.
I watched a retrospective of 2017 on MSNBC yesterday. 2017 was more depressing than I realized!
I am beginning to hate the hawk that took up residence in my neighborhood. My birdfeeder is becoming a deadly attraction to the birds. Yeah, yeah, "nature", etc, etc... But I want my small birds more than I want a hawk around. I've seen it pick off 2 male cardinals, and it's not like I'm staring out the window all day. I had 12 male cardinals around last Christmas. The most I counted the past few days was 4. I'm researching anti-raptor netting.
New food thing I discovered! Raw large deshelled shrimp tossed with garlic and cherry tomatoes, and olive oil. Raw broccoli florets tossed with olive oil and lemon zest. Set on a baking pan at 400F for 15 minutes. Served with fried potato wedges with minced shallots and garlic...
The neighbors have those new star shower lights. Nice fir the first hour. Then boring. I like my stationary strings better.
The garden catalogs are arriving. Time to take out my seed tray and see what I need for the new season. I want to buy a few grafted heirloom tomatoes to see if they are worth it, but companies that self them a few at a time have bad ratings and the good places sell them 100 at a time. So I'll try grafting my own again.
Saw the movie 'Interstellar' last night. It made no sense at the end. I understood what they tried to do, but "FAIL"...
Am still trying to design a mailbox notifier. Something that let's me know when the mailbox has been opened. I could buy one, but that's not the point. I want to figure one out myself.
Can't seem to win at Scrabble online. I win until my opponent suddenly gets a 7 letter 50 point bonus near the end.
Waiting for Spring...
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My side-neighbor lit up Christmas lights last night. My own house lights are still up from Christmases ago. Turned off of course. The ma...
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I wish we could have some cold winters, Mark. Ours in recent years have broken records for being among the warmest on record - but I LIKE the cold!
Seed catalogues: yaaaaay. Always a fun way to while away a few hours.
I've put some new soil and dug some cow manure into my vegetable container. Now to decide what to plant given how late it is in the season.
Megan
Sydney, Australia
We have been getting a lot of seed catalogs too. Everything always looks so good in those. Do you get the Totally Tomatoes catalog? They may have some good grafter heirlooms.
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