I will start this post with some good news,,,for those of you who have been to the house recently you noticed that my Gerbera Daisy was struggling to stay alive over the winter,,,,which really bummed me out as it was a gift. The good news is it had 2 blossoms last week and now it has four more coming up.
Here is a close up of the newest flower buds.
In the past week or so we have had a lot of rain so I hiked down the side of the road and unclogged the pipe which feeds our pond. Richard said he did not remember it flowing so well. It took about 4 hours for the pond to fill up and then start flowing down the rock waterfall near the front walk.
We have frogs in our pond, a few in the one at the front door but a lot in the large pond, I saw this mass of frog eggs near the edge of the pond. If these frogs were bigger I would entertain frog's legs one night for dinner,,,,alas they aren't.
So as I wandered around the yard I noticed our garlic and daffodils are starting to come up. If you look just to the left of the landscape timber you can make out spots of green. What a great sight.
After we brought some wood in I thought it would be interesting to show all of you how much we have burned over the winter. Look at this and then go back to one of my summer posts and you'll realize that we have been through a lot of firewood. Good thing we have a few trees that are dead and need to be taken down around the yard.
Late on Sunday one of the last things I did was to roast more garlic. We buy our garlic from Sam's Club in 2 1/2 pound bags. One of the first things I do is roast 8-10 bulbs. Once they are roasted I squeeze out the garlic onto sheets of plastic wrap and then freeze them for quick use in the future. Did I ever mention that garlic is a food group in our house?
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