Monday, April 1, 2019

Good Riddance Winter

Finally, winter is moving on and with it, I hope the crap storm of bad and sad. My immediate family, our children and their families, are well but the periphery about all of us (friends of relatives and relatives of friends) was filled with cancer related deaths and serious medical issues. March came in like a lion and acted rudely all thirty-one days.

Today though it's better. Temperatures are creeping up, the sun was brilliant, I was able to hang up laundry and there are no funerals or visitations on my calendar. Gardens are being cleared of last falls debris and tomorrow we'll sow radishes, lettuces and peas. Hope springs eternal as the cliche' lovers might spout. 







Keith further lifted my spirits by installing some garden gates. The first one closes off our large main garden sitting west of the grain bin house a couple hundred feet. He  made the gate from an old hog panel I've been hanging onto for years because I loved the vintage red and yellow paint on it. He used vintage black hinges that HE has been hanging onto for years. Now that it is installed I may paint it white to match the white picket gate on our kitchen garden below. We shall see.







The smaller kitchen garden gate was a birthday gift to me from our son Colton last May. He built it, painted it and gave us all the hardware to hang it. Keith put in the posts a couple days ago and VOILA' I have the quaint garden gate I have always wanted. This summer we will build the rest of the picket fence from salvaged wood harvested form the 1868 house which is still under deconstruction. I love our cute little kitchen garden where I grow my herbs and salad veggies, plus numerous spirit lifting annuals.


What is everyone else doing to welcome spring and/or lift spirits? 



PS. I have no idea why Blogger is messing with my blog by highlighting words and corrupting my font. You get what you pay for eh?


10 comments:

  1. This looks good. I love the re-use of old but serviceable items. Let's hope for brighter times ahead. You can tame Blogger by pressing the HTML tab while editing your post and then deleting all strange things looking like But not the
    which only makes new lines = carriage return for us oldies ;) Good luck.

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    1. Haha Blogger do not like me telling you this. It eats all the code :) it's all the blah blah in <> parenthesis, only not when it says br / within <>

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  2. Your gates are so sweet. I always wanted a white picket around my veg garden, but that's not done here so I'll leave it all open plan for now!

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    1. it's rather out of style here too, in fact gardening is out of style, so I might as well rock the boat both ways.

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  3. What did you do to upset Mr Blogger so? I would leave the red/yellow gate; it looks great.

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    1. I'm not sure Cro.. I just naturally rub some people, and/or blog hosts, the wrong way. I'm still debating about the yellow red gate. Today we spread a bright yellow path of straw in that garden and it made the gate POP! So, I might leave it as is.

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  5. I like the re-use of the wood and hinges. The white picket fence reminds me of one we had at the Va house years ago.

    And, the previous comment is worthless spam because I am being polite here. Geez, you would think these worthless folks would have better things to do. I keep checking regularly and mark them as spam and delete them ASAP. it hasn't stopped them because many leave a comment on older posts it seems.

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    1. They irk me so. I too, do what I can to keep the spammers away but they are weasels aren't they? Escort THIS! (Insert inappropriate gesture here)

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  6. I like the bicolor gate too, tho eventually you'll want to paint to protect the wood. Meanwhile, enjoy! I love hearing about your homesteader life.
    So sorry for the bad winter, here's hoping the corner has turned on the bad and sad. Our snowdrops are up in upstate NY, but I think in the midwest you're a week or two behind.

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