A Hint of Spring At The Grocery Store!

Primroses remind me of England and spring.  I couldn't help myself at the grocery store.  I resisted for several days, but this snow has just gotten to me.  We are really lucky that we don't have to battle it every day!  Here is an updated picture of our front garden.  Not as much as the first snow storm, but we have had almost 75 inches of snow this season!  Enough, but we are supposed to have more on Wednesday!  Keep praying!  Spring is a little more than three weeks away!  Hurry! Hurry!  Talk to you later!

Just Had to Remind Myself!

I used this picture in my January 23, 2010 post!  Sorry, but I'm trying to remember happier times when I could actually get out and see my herb garden and fantasize about what it will look like this summer.  Still snowing!  Although we are having a break at the moment.  More to come!  I know I will get to see it sooner rather later, but the weather is wearing me down!  Hopefully you are warm and cozy wherever you may be.  Talk to you later!

Herbal Bucket List!

I still love to get paper catalogs in the mail.  This is one of my very favorites.   I use it as a reference tool.  It has a lot of good information and it is free for the asking.  Can't get better than that.  I am hoping to get to their greenhouses some day soon!  Richters is just outside of Toronto, Canada.  About 4 hours to drive for us.  If you come through the Peace Bridge entrance for U.S. citizens, you can bring plants into the U.S.  Just be sure to ask for a special invoice to get the plants safely back.  One of the things on my herbal bucket list!  Hope you are safe and warm wherever you may be!  Talk to you later!

The Calm Before the Next Storm!

We did a little work on the arbor in the front before the next storm comes along!  We will probably have to buy a new arbor or have one built for this season.  At the moment though it is upright and hope that it will hold up for a little while longer.  The snow around the shrubs is like concrete!  I tried to shovel my way in to help The Herbal Husband and couldn't do it!  A whole lot of work is still to be done, but hopefully we are on the way to getting plants back to an upright position!  Hope things are going smoothly wherever you may be.  Talk to you later!

May See The Front Gate Before Spring!

This was the other day when the sun was out.  We cherish those days here in the 'Burgh!  The snow has melted even more.  I'll get outside and take some photos of my shrubbery in the front garden.  It was really flattened.  Hope it will come back eventually.  Going to be cold and snow again on Thursday!  Praying for an end to February!  It can't come soon enough.  Here we are just minutes ago!  Yikes, this arbor is leaning as well!  It doesn't have the age or span that our back arbor does, but it needs to be upright to welcome people, and not scare them even further!  It's always something!  Talk to you later.

Small but Flavorful Pizza!

Not a great photo, but this was Saturday dinner, small but flavorful pizzas.  The Herbal Husband topped two small Bobolis with chicken, sauteed mushrooms and onions, tomatoes, broccoli and lots of cheese.  Very yummy!  Always enjoy The Herbal Husband's cooking.  He enjoys cooking so much more than I do.  He does enjoy when I cook though and he can relax.   It has really gotten warm (40's close to 50), but we aren't going to stay warm.  It still is February and March is never a picnic either.  So hope you are warm wherever you are.  Talk to you later.

He's Baaack!

There he is popping up out of the snow!  It's St. Fiacre or what we sometimes call him, St. Fiasco!  When we are having a bad gardening season, we tend to take it out on poor St. Fiacre!  St. Fiacre is the patron saint of gardeners and Paris cab drivers.  He was originally Irish and sailed the seas to France.  He settled in the region of Brie and had a garden where he healed many.  Cab drivers were called fiacres in the 17th century after the Hotel Saint-Fiacre in Paris.  So spring is just 27 days away!  Think spring!  We just have to get through February.  We haven't had a February like this one for quite awhile!  Hope you are warm and safe wherever you may be.  Talk to you later.  

Leaning A Little Less!

The Herbal Husband was inspired by the sun and warmer (It is finally above freezing!) temperatures and got the arbor in a more upright position.  So if and when it collapses, it will just go straight down rather than leaning into my rock wall!  The icicles have been crashing off the back of the house, three stories high!  It makes quite the noise!  It really makes you jump for joy!  Hope you are enjoying the weekend wherever you may be!  Talk to you later!

Polar Birdie Bath!

They are a little hard to see them, but the sparrows were having a great time in the birdbath today!  Click on the photo to enlarge it.  The sun was shining for most of the day and we are finally melting the snow pack.  It is still about 17" or so, but the icicles are mostly off the back of the house.  Of course on the sunniest of days, we went to the movies!  The Herbal Husband was feeling deprived!  He saw Shutter Island and loved it.  I saw Sherlock Holmes for the second time and saw things I missed the first time!  It is really good.  Then we had dinner at Red Robin.  Delicious fish!  We have another big storm coming Sunday night into Monday and Tuesday.  Will winter ever end?  I'm really looking forward to it ending this season!  Can't Phil be wrong one year?