I love the color green. Today the sun is shinning, it's over 60 degrees outside and the snow is almost gone. It's hard to believe this is the snow belt of central NY. I hope the weather stays this way but I am leery as it doesn't seem right that it isn't snowing in March.
Anyway, back to green. On Sunday (3 days ago) wifey planted some herbs and I set them out in this beautiful weather today. Once outside I decided I should start some plants as well and opened up cherry tomatoes, beef steak tomatoes and a salad mix blend.
I even made a crazy little green house out of some boards and a plastic garbage bag. It's my little experiment with a greenhouse. I nailed 3 boards together and left the ends open. I placed 3 planters inside with the garbage bag covering it. The open end of the plastic I folded underneath the planter so I can pull the planters out to water them. I'll keep you informed along the way as to whether they grow better or not.
Ah the smell of green is in the air. First thing this morning I won 20 swagbucks for a search. Also the amazon cards were given out today on swagbucks and I got another $25 worth of gift cards. If you're not a member, join for free by clicking here and start earning your rewards today.
And one more bit of green. The grass is beginning to become green and we had our first deer in the yard eating as much of it as she could! The cat and I watched it munching down some lunch about 3pm while other deer wandered just inside the woods. This is the first deer in the yard since we moved in about 7 months ago. So far we've had a fox, moles, deer and birds including turkeys! Oh and add to that a neighbors cat that comes over on the deck and watches our cat through the sliding glass doors. What an interesting mixture of wildlife.
Today I put a honey bee outside, released a fly from inside the screen door and searched the swampy wetlands beside the house looking for the frogs that will soon over run the yard. No croakers yet but they may be waiting for the mosquitoes that will soon be out. I also noticed that our strawberries plants are starting to push through the layer of leaves we had covering them for the winter.
That's a wrap for today. I hope everyone had a beautiful green day.
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