Great Weather to Garden

Ahhh, the fist few signs of spring and summer vast approacing!  How good it feels to get outside and start digging around in the garden.  Since we have returned (from a long stay in Florida) we have had to start from scratch outside again.  So it looks more like a jungle then a yard or defined garden beds.   As you can see it is going to be a long haul.  But with a little bit of sweat equity and some help from the yard monkeys and yard apes I believe we can get it together once again.  Already some of the beds are shaping up and looking more like the rose beds then weed beds.  But as I was looking around the yard I started to notice that I had the makings of a great wild flower garden.  A kind of cottage garden if only I moved a few plants here and change a bit there.  Why I would be able to fix what had been left to seed.  So armed with pick axe in hand and a some kids caught up in the the "yard draft"  I think we can make short work of it.  So in the next few weeks we shall see what I have made of the yard. 

Upon digging up some of our wonderful wild flowers (wild violets) we noticed that there should be nothing wrong with our soil.  Earth worms are in everything and every where.  You can't even pull up a blade of grass without these great little diggers being around every root.  So I tossed a few in the compost pile and will let them do their magic. 

  Another resource we have here in our little neck of the woods is our stream and look what we have.  Tadpoles.  The sound from their adult counter parts at night is sometimes so loud that you can not talk on the phone when they are in full song.  But the one thing that that do is keep the misqueto population down.  Now I have to put in this disclamer.  Not all tadpoles eat misqueto larva but these seem to.  We have not had a problem with misquetos and these tadpoles are very large!

Now with all these things humming, buzzing and crocking in our yard there are a few things that are not so glad to see us all out and about.  Take the squerrels.  They had the run of the place this past winter and spring.  The sisters being very picky as to what kind of weather they want to subject themselvs to.  Finially with the day warming up and us out weeding and tending to the gardens the ventured out.  Their favorite thing is to keep you company when you are weeding.  Now how cute you may say but there is a method to their seeminly complacent attitude and that is they are actually stalking things such as squirles.  Now how terriable you may say how ever those squirls are opprotunest.  The moment you place any bird seed to attract the birds they are into it.  They spend their days scampering across the tin roof and if allowed they would build nest in the attic.  They spent most of their days in cold weather scampering just out side the french doors saftly out of reach from the sisters ( the insurgents) teasing them and flicking their tails as if to mock them.  So now that summer is well on its way I see that it is alls fair in the world of squirl and cat.  Nuff said.  This little barkers days are limited.