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Category: a new year | Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:00 pm

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well, February is almost complete, and this is the time of year when I start getting antsy for the weather to change. it's not any easier knowing that there is still at least a month left of winter, but that doesn't mean I have to like it!.....lol.

reading through the posts & blogs and seeing all the pictures just makes me jealous. I am starting to look for signs of life in the yard as I walk the pathway when I come & go....(of course it would help if there was some daylight). I think the worst part of the winter is the grayness of it all.... the sunshine is always welcome. in the meantime, I have been starting to stock up on seed packets & solar lights and gloves and planning what will happen in the yard this year. I think in a few weeks, will have to plan a cook-out...hot dogs on the grill, macaroni salad & baked beans.....a little preview of the summer!

i'm still waiting for the birds to start flitting about..i can't wait to see the first robin, though I will probably hear them before I see them. my new kitty hasn't really seen a bird yet, ...he looks out the window but there really isn't much to see but things blowing around...it seems it has been very windy this winter. I can't wait to see his reaction..i think he will probably go nuts, especially if one happens to land on the fence when he's looking out the window!

in a couple of weeks, I will start 'window' shopping for bare-root plants...see what is available...& what I want to grow...hoping the forget-me-nots & English daisies I planted in the front bed made it through the winter...that is such a difficult area to get things to grow & flower...the electric co. did come by a few weeks ago & trimmed the branches over the sidewalks, so there will be a little more sun, not much, but some. (they do such a 'chop' job....but they are electric workers, not arborists).
i'll have to take a picture of the tree across the street....absolutely awful....they probably should have just cut the poor thing down..a poorer job of trimming I have never seen!

Cannot wait for the day, when I get up in the morning, and my first step outside I can 'smell' the change in the air and actually believe that spring has arrived!

p.s. saw the crocuses starting to come up! am truly excited....my friend suggested I was out with the flashlight looking for them, and I had to tell her no, it really was in the daylight!....lol


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Netty wrote on Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:18 pm:

I feel the exact same way! February is always the longest month for me, just because I have always had enough of winter by then. And the anticipation of getting back out in the garden starts to get overwhelming. 27 days and counting!

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Jewell wrote on Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:46 am:

With all the recent snow and crazy weather the east coast has gotten, will you be waiting awhile yet? Spring weather can't be far off I hope.

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