Thursday, February 23, 2023
First Quarter Waxing Moon in Aries
Celtic Tree Month of Ash
Snowy and cold
We’re back to winter again. We had about 4 inches of wet, heavy snow, with periods of sleet. Now it’s more freezing rain.
The plants on the porch are a little confused, but everything we have inside just shrugs it off. Last week, I also bought a couple of African violets (in pink and purple), a spider plant, and a small, variegated philodendron. I have to repot them, but it’s nice to have these plants around again.
The giant philodendron that didn’t survive the move had come with us from Chicago (and we moved to NY in 1966), then moved from the house to the apartment after my dad died, and then, when we moved to the Cape in 2010, it attached itself to the walls and grew huge. But the move was too much of a shock. None of the cuttings survived, either. I missed having a philodendron, so I’m happy to have another.
With the temperature fluctuations, the bulbs are stopping and starting, but I hope they bloom by, say, Easter. The hyacinths are the farthest along.
The borage was doing really well, and then it fainted, so I don’t know what’s going on there.
I haven’t been able to order any other seeds yet; I hope I haven’t left it too late.
The squirrel who dug so much up on the back balcony last summer and put a hole in the kitchen screen has been running over the top of the roof to the front and peeking in both the porch and the living room windows. Charlotte patrols the front of the house, Willa the back.
Monday morning, crows woke me. They were herding the flocks of birds migrating back up from the south. Seeing thousands of birds fly across the sky in formation, then nudged by the crows toward the lake, was an amazing sight.
I bet they’re sorry they came back early!
But the cats are shedding their winter coats (time to vacuum every day), so maybe this is winter’s last puff.
How are things in your neck of the woods?
Gratitude and Growth: A Garden Journal 
Feb 24, 2023 @ 00:43:53
I cut my herbs from under the grow light again and dried them. Hubby brought up 4 cherry tomatoes from the basement where he grew them under a grow light. I cut them in quarters and tossed them in a salad. Homegrown tomatoes in February…in Jersey.
Mar 02, 2023 @ 13:11:20
That sounds wonderful!