It's Spring..!
What a perfect day to pick up on Tilling By Moonlight! I was out at the crack of dawn cleaning the yard after the storms of last weekend. I also pruned a lot of trees, cleaned and trimmed the ivy beds in the front yard, and, at 1:30, the equinox, I went around and whacked all the trees with a rolled up newspaper to wake the up from their winter slumber and get them growing!
It's a beautiful here on the grounds of Stately Sad Old Goth Manor, all the spring bulbs are popping up and, a little surprise on the East side of the grim old pile under the hemlock trees, a crop of Snow Drops! I have no idea where they came from, I didn't plant them, but there they are.

I'll take it as a sign from Mother Earth that beautiful surprises are in order this coming year.
Well, back to the tasks at hand, I've got hours of cleaning up to do now.
Welcome back, my fellow wanderers!

Saturday yard work...
It is a beautiful day today, mid seventies, big puffy clouds meandering across the azure sky, gentle breeze, perfect, just perfect for playing yard slave. After I returned from running my usual Saturday morning errands, I cleaned all the fallen leaves from the gardens and beds, then fired up the lawn mower and chased it around the grounds for two hours. Then I cleaned up around the edges, then I dug out all the roots left from the old spruce tree we took down a few months ago, raked out the area, added some top soil and spread some grass seed and watered it down. With a little luck, I'll have even more grass to mow in a few weeks. I also fertilized the new trees across the front of the property to help them make it through the winter. And after I take a break, I'm going to start cleaning out the cactus bed. I'm sure I'll be scraping spines out of my hands and arms all night.
The grounds are slowly undergoing a transformation. I'm replacing perennial beds with shrubberies, getting rid of old, overgrown deciduous trees and replacing them with evergreens and will be replacing all the lawn on the western side of the house with fern, bluebells, hosta and other shade lovers, also putting in a nice stepping stone walkway and some sort of garden art. Don't know what yet, I've been thinking about making something interesting, like a slightly larger than life-sized winged cat, mounted on a springy piece of steel rod so it sways in the breeze. Or maybe a nice, whimsical gargoyle.
Well, there's no rest for the wicked, it's back to work.
Be well.
sow what you will...

Welcome...
I've decided that trying to come up with fodder for one blog wasn't enough, so I'm branching out (it's a joke, get it?) into another blog, dedicated to my gardening and landscaping projects, as well as forays into the woods out back and other matters that might befit the telling here. Don't expect much right off the bat, I'm betwixt and between so many projects right now that I'll be posting here less often then over at the other place, but as things settle down, I'll be sharing my ideas for the ongoing major overhaul of the grounds that surround this grim old pile, as well as some dreams and the occasional real event. Stop in once in a while, if you have the time. Please leave comments by clicking "sow what you will" at the bottom of the posts. I guess that's about it for now. Thanks for looking in.
Gregor


sow what you will...