All of a sudden, spring has sprung

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From lows of -5 degrees F just a few nights ago, today's high is supposed to be in the low 60s! Holy cow, that's warming even our nights to the high 40s. Yep, the...

The seed starting is gearing up, even in below zero temps

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I've got all our pepper seeds started and am nearly done with the tomatoes. We had some old squash and pumpkin seeds, some of which were donated by a reader to whom I sent...

We finally got a Baltimore Oriole

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After weeks of waiting, we were finally rewarded by seeing a Baltimore Oriole in a birch tree off of our deck. He tried to drink from our hummingbird feeder with no results. He flew...

Spring is officially here — we saw robins today

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Will bummed me out this morning. He got up earlier than I did and saw our first robin in the tree in our backyard. But I one-upped him when I drove to town this...

The seminar’s over and we’re back at it

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We had a great seminar this past weekend although only Friday was sunny; we had rain all day Saturday and Sunday. But we still had fun and covered everything we had planned on covering....