The Weekend!

 Big OL' Owl

It was a grain store day yesterday, we picked up a couple of Wildlife Grains and some whole corn.  While we were up in Henniker getting grain, I figured we'd run over to Jarrod's house, they have a new kitten, Julia is a cute cat, she's grey with yellow eyes? I think they were yellow/orange... not sure which.

Oh, while at the grain store we got a Big Ol' Owl kinetic sculpture. We both liked it as soon as we saw it. I've picked up several traveling for business in Canada previously for Rose none this big though.  I've never seen them here in the US before.

This one is huge compared to the one's we have.  The counterbalance ball is a solid steel 5 Lb ball. It stands almost 6 feet tall.

Moved some stuff around yesterday, grain barrels moved to the field. I was poking around,  and noticed Harry Lauder's walking stick has catkins on it.

 

The Rhubarb is coming up we're talking about subdividing it, it's a big job, maybe...  the crown is quite spread out now instead of a 6-8" group of crowns on a younger plant.

I assembled the owl, damned thing weighs 40Lbs and is very awkward to pick up and move that much I can tell you.

 

Jarrod got Rose a nice galvanized steel birdbath for her birthday, I got it assembled and put out by the garden. We've had bad luck with the glass bowl ones and the concrete and plastic ones don't seem to last. We'll keep this one over by the garden so it gets filled regularly and we can keep the dogs out of it.

Zeb found a nice spot to rest his head this morning.  

Daff's are blooming on the side of the house more coming soon.

My blackberry plants are budding out, the deer didn't eat the stalks all the way back this year, there are still some 12'+ long canes that are doing well.  should be a great crop this year.

 Lilacs are all starting to bud out, some of them are putting out flower heads already.

 

It feels like we're still a solid month ahead of where we should be this season. 

I'd love to get the cabana up and get some comfortable furniture out of the shed  to sit on around here, but we know from past years that getting these up early is looking for trouble, we can get some pretty vicious winds this time of year.

So far the April showers just haven't materialized here so water worries are still there.  It is supposed to rain next Thursday through Sunday, I can only hope.

We re-potted a bunch of stuff, Broccoli, and Kale, and onions.  That's two more trays planted and on the heat mat and under grow lights.

Stay Safe out there...