Friday, March 6, 2015
Sunday, April 3, 2011
A mite breezy today
WOW, some major wind today! Spent the day picking up shingles in the yard from the old house out on the farm. The wind got so strong it was hard to just stand up (plus I could only use one hand, the other hand had to be firmly wrapped around my beer cuz I couldn't set it down. It would blow away!)
Brother had to get up on the roof of the new house and tar down several shingles that were trying to blow off. He has to do jobs like that, there is no way I am getting on the roof of a house. I am soo scared of heights that I freak out just standing on a chair to change a light bulb! There is no way I am going to climb up on a roof, especially during a windstorm!
While I was gathering up shingles there was a horrid screeching noise...the tin started peeling off the neighbors barn!
Brother had to get up on the roof of the new house and tar down several shingles that were trying to blow off. He has to do jobs like that, there is no way I am getting on the roof of a house. I am soo scared of heights that I freak out just standing on a chair to change a light bulb! There is no way I am going to climb up on a roof, especially during a windstorm!
While I was gathering up shingles there was a horrid screeching noise...the tin started peeling off the neighbors barn!
Other than the wind it was a beautiful day! Temps approaching 70, no rain yet! But a major thunder storm is predicted for tonight. And I have no idea why this all of the sudden decided to center the text! Still have a lot of exploring to learn on how to post on this new blog!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
I don't think it's gonna make it this year...
...my mom's magnolia tree, I don't think it's gonna bloom properly this year.
(well I really f*cked up picking that picture size!)
Mom's magnolia is about the only thing left out on the farm that mom planted. (oh hell, my font changed , what the f*ck is up with that?)
Okay I'm back on the right font...if nothing else, this blog might be interesting watching my screw-ups! (note to self, checking preview can change the font!)
Anyhoo, mom was a major gardener/flower lover. She had all kinds of stuff all over this yard back when I was growing up. It was a major battle for her to have the flowers she loved, between dad and my brothers mowing over everything, not much had a chance. Even the trees she planted didn't have much of a chance. Dad ad no idea on how to properly prune a tree and kept hacking at them til most of them died. The fruit trees, the flowering plum, the lilac bushes, the mimosa and the spirea bushes (except for one determined old bush) all eventually gave up the ghost.
There were a few old soldiers along side the road that kept coming back this year in spite of being mowed down for several years, some purple and gold iris, a clump of peonies, some paperwhites...well those disappeared late last fall when the county came along and widened the ditches and obliberated them!
I did manage to start a mimosa from a seed from mom's before it croaked and it is now happily growing in my yard, and have been nurturing one spirea out there and it seems to be coming back well!
Back to the magnolia, this poor thing! The magnolia was mom's favorite flowering tree, and this one had (sorta) survived dad's "pruning", now it is a frail triple-trunked thing but it tries it's hardest to flower each year! And not only did it survive dad's attentions it has had to battle a scrub fir tree that dad "planted" about ten feet from it about 30 years ago. We never expected the fir to live, but it has soared to be a huge,ugly tree that totally blocks the magnolia from getting much sun.
The poor magnolia doesn't have much of a chance. But it tries. This year it was LOADED with buds but a late freeze last night might have doomed it, the buds, about ready to burst into flower, look rather brown and lifeless today.
I just hate that because when I see that tree in full bloom, I feel close to mom when it blooms.
(well I really f*cked up picking that picture size!)
Mom's magnolia is about the only thing left out on the farm that mom planted. (oh hell, my font changed , what the f*ck is up with that?)
Okay I'm back on the right font...if nothing else, this blog might be interesting watching my screw-ups! (note to self, checking preview can change the font!)
Anyhoo, mom was a major gardener/flower lover. She had all kinds of stuff all over this yard back when I was growing up. It was a major battle for her to have the flowers she loved, between dad and my brothers mowing over everything, not much had a chance. Even the trees she planted didn't have much of a chance. Dad ad no idea on how to properly prune a tree and kept hacking at them til most of them died. The fruit trees, the flowering plum, the lilac bushes, the mimosa and the spirea bushes (except for one determined old bush) all eventually gave up the ghost.
There were a few old soldiers along side the road that kept coming back this year in spite of being mowed down for several years, some purple and gold iris, a clump of peonies, some paperwhites...well those disappeared late last fall when the county came along and widened the ditches and obliberated them!
I did manage to start a mimosa from a seed from mom's before it croaked and it is now happily growing in my yard, and have been nurturing one spirea out there and it seems to be coming back well!
Back to the magnolia, this poor thing! The magnolia was mom's favorite flowering tree, and this one had (sorta) survived dad's "pruning", now it is a frail triple-trunked thing but it tries it's hardest to flower each year! And not only did it survive dad's attentions it has had to battle a scrub fir tree that dad "planted" about ten feet from it about 30 years ago. We never expected the fir to live, but it has soared to be a huge,ugly tree that totally blocks the magnolia from getting much sun.
The poor magnolia doesn't have much of a chance. But it tries. This year it was LOADED with buds but a late freeze last night might have doomed it, the buds, about ready to burst into flower, look rather brown and lifeless today.
I just hate that because when I see that tree in full bloom, I feel close to mom when it blooms.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Welcome!
I'd been thinking about starting blogging again and since it had been sooo long since I had blogged and have changed servers, e-mail, passwords, underwear etc. that I was totally befuddled on how to get back into my old blog From the Porch so I decided to create a new one!
WOW! Things have changed alot on here since the last time I blogged! More options, customizations, and stuff I have no idea what to do with! I'm going to have to do some playing to figure out what all this stuff does! So be patient with me while I blunder my way thru this (again, it took me awhile to learn how to do the old blog!)
I may not post alot or I may post a bunch, just depends, I know I will post about my house, my Fiesta collection and cars and who knows what else will strike my fancy, hence the title of this edition of my blog.
So I hope you put up with my efforts to be entertaining, I'll try not to be too boring and contain posts to the exciting things in my life (which total about six!)
Spring is the time of new beginings, so I'm begining again!
So wish me luck on the next six posts!
WOW! Things have changed alot on here since the last time I blogged! More options, customizations, and stuff I have no idea what to do with! I'm going to have to do some playing to figure out what all this stuff does! So be patient with me while I blunder my way thru this (again, it took me awhile to learn how to do the old blog!)
I may not post alot or I may post a bunch, just depends, I know I will post about my house, my Fiesta collection and cars and who knows what else will strike my fancy, hence the title of this edition of my blog.
So I hope you put up with my efforts to be entertaining, I'll try not to be too boring and contain posts to the exciting things in my life (which total about six!)
Spring is the time of new beginings, so I'm begining again!
So wish me luck on the next six posts!
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