January Thaw

In keeping with my New Years resolution to write in this blog more frequently I am writing this. The little lamb Taco has not found a new home yet and he and his dog friend Buddy are terrorizing the house. He will eat a few cheerios from my fingers and will nibble hay. I just don’t know what we are going to do with him as he grows. I can integrate him into the flock when it gets warmer but that will be a while.

Gingers little puppies are barking and growling now. They are three weeks old and so cute as they wobble around. Steve fixed them a little bigger pen today so they can explore safely. They need to be wormed for the first time and started on soft food.

We are having a January thaw already. It is supposed to get near 50 degrees the next couple days but its going to be wet like today. I like it warmer, but the dampness makes everything smell and it looks awful outside. You get rid of all the snow but get mud in its place.

I am busy writing away on my book as the half way deadline is approaching. Hopefully my next advance money can be used to buy another car. I may have to cut my hours back at the Extension office because we got about half of last years numbers for the Master Gardener class this year.

I am getting tons of garden catalogs already and I always sit and make lists of things I would like to have. I watered the plants out on my enclosed but unheated porch today. The geraniums are still blooming and the diasca is blooming again also. The rosemary really seems to like the conditions. But I forgot to move some coleus back to where it’s warmer and I think they are gone.

Inside both my Christmas cacti are blooming quite nicely. One of the plants is very old, it was my grandmothers. You can read my article about Christmas cacti by going to www.gardenandhearth.com/plant-guides/christmas-cactus-care.htm They are wonderful plants that deserve more attention.