We’re having a really nice day here, a bit frosty in the morning but temperatures rose when the sun did. So today we’ve had 11C (51,8F) 🙂 There is a wind blowing but it isn’t that cold and like most days it can’t reach my garden.
We walked down to the creek and I must say that Alma is getting better and better walking well. Malkolm is just the opposite but that could be that I only notice it now when Alma has started to calm down 🙂 🙂 🙂 We could hear lots of cranes but couldn’t see any, the big migration north has just started and soon I’ll be able to see them flying over us as soon as we’re outside. The doves have arrived too, I do like their sound in the morning when we go outside.
I took a look at my small vegetable garden yesterday and since the weather is so nice I decided I would start removing all the weeds today. This early in spring I can only see the biennals and the perennial weeds and thankfully they grow big enough in autumn that they are easy to see now. It was mostly Aarons’ rod, a few dandelions and also small stinging nettles. The Aarons’rods grow so big that they need to be removed and I did remove most of the dandelions as well, left a couple since I like the leafs in a salad.
Also stinging nettles are nutritious but to be honest, they spread like wild fires and no matter what people say they do sting badly already as tiny plants. Wild raspberries is a bit of a problem here, they too spread fast but then again those berries are probably the tastiest one can find but not in my vegetable patch 🙂 🙂 I also found some carrots from last year so the dogs and I shared them 🙂 🙂 All these weeds filled up that small compost I bought last summer, the black one that one can and must spin around to make it work properly.
It was so so full now that I barely could spin it 🙂 🙂 It works amazingly good, it’s just made of some kind of plastic that also insulated really well. They say it works down to -11C (12,2F) and I believe them. It’s counted as a warm compost and during summer it gets really warm and I put my hands in it now when it was cold and I could still feel warmth in there. I’ll continue tomorrow with more weeding and thankfully I do have a big compost made from the same material that still has some space it it 🙂
The monsterkitten was allowed to walk out from the kitchen door by herself today. Can’t say she was especially enthusiastic in the beginning, lots of going in and out at the beginning 🙂 🙂 She did get more brave after a while but as soon as the dogs thought she had wandered a bit too far (4 meters as most wich is much the same in yards) they started to make sure she walked back to the door 🙂 🙂 🙂 We’ll have much the same temperatures the coming five days so she’ll have plsnty more times to explore the garden 🙂
Time for dinner I think, have no clue what I’ll make but after that I’ll make a pot of tea 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
That is wonderful that the dogs keep an eye on monsterkitten! They are her protectors.
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Hi ppekka!
I hope she understands that and don’t jump out on the road when cars pass by.
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I wonder if Sarah will grow into her big ears? My youngest cat Tony has ears so big, when he shakes his head first thing in the morning they flap like bats and that’s how I know it’s him coming into the bedroom. He’s otherwise a small cat, but in the last year since Tater showed up it seems he had a growth spurt and got taller, even though he’s 5 years old now. Probably for self-defense from Tater.
It’s nice that the dogs keep an eye on the kitten so she doesn’t get into any trouble. Even though she plays rough with them, they don’t hold it against her.
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Hi catsworking!
I do too, Alma never really grew in to her big ears, they still look too big on her 🙂
It is nice so that she at least now in the beginning stays close to home, so many cats here. Then again she’s probably a sister to all the cats up. on the farm so perhaps they’ll accept her anyway?
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It’s great that the dogs are keeping an eye on Sara while she’s getting used to the big cold world. She’s a beautiful cat. I think her coat pattern is called marbled but I’m not sure.
Things are greening up in my yard. Sunday evening around sunset I saw 5 deer out in the back swampy part of the yard. They were browsing in various parts of the swamp. Yesterday morning they were gone but I could see a faint green haze on the feral privet bushes that are all over the place back there. That’s what the deer were eating. Tasty young privet twigs. The American Robins had eaten up all the berries on the privets a couple of weeks ago. Privet berries are the last things to be eaten at the tail end of winter when there’s not much of anything else around. They must not have much to recommend them. 😀
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Hi Caryn!
It is a good thing but I’m not sure she thinks so 🙂 🙂 🙂 I have no idea what that pattern is called, all I know is that it isn’t striped 🙂
Everything took a halt here when the snow fell but I can see more croci and bigger buds on the trees and bushes. Something has eaten the tops of the spring bulb leafs and I guess we might have a deer visitor at nights 🙂
I guess those berries are like the Aronia berries I have here, they taste awful but works if one is hungry 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I hope that the monster kitten Sara will not wander too far from home once she really gets used to the outdoors. years ago, I had a cat named Sambuca who would never try to run outside which made me glad as i was living close to a roadway.
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Hi Beatrice!
So far she’s quite content by lying on the kitchen stairs in the sunshine. Everyone here have cats, dogs, chicken and horses so they all drive slowly on the gravel roads thankfully and the fox we have now doesn’t care about cats 🙂
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