Springtime (house, move, yard)

[phyll]

Originally Posted by JoAnn5

no fainting goats on the list of choices????

Thats right! Hey there's no goats on that choice huh?, I will stick with my cows

[AlisonL]

I think Phyll better come back as a farmer's wife. Life as a cow could end up being short.

[AlisonL]

Originally Posted by alleycat

I have a friend from Maine. He also joked that in the autumn they would look back and ask, "What day was summer?"

Then he would tell stories about moose hunting. "We'd sit around around all morning and then after lunch someone would say, 'Well, I guess it's time to go shoot a moose.'" Apparently great stalking abilities are not required for moose hunting.

Moose are rather stupid when it comes to hunting them. They will stand there and look at you. My brother has his one and only moose hunt on video tape.

[alleycat]

Back to springtime . . .

My Bradford pear and crabapple will be in bloom by next weekend. The crabapple is a beautify dark pink/light red. It's a little delicate however; some years I get to enjoy it for almost two weeks, and some years there will be a storm that blows the blooms away after only a few days.

If anyone else has a crabapple, you can cut off a few twigs (as soon as they're showing just a little bit of color on the buds), put them in water and have a nice indoor flower arrangement.

[AlisonL]

Originally Posted by alleycat

Back to springtime . . .

My Bradford pear and crabapple will be in bloom by next weekend. The crabapple is a beautify dark pink/light red. It's a little delicate however; some years I get to enjoy it for almost two weeks, and some years there will be a storm that blows the blooms away after only a few days.

If anyone else has a crabapple, you can cut off a few twigs (as soon as they're showing just a little bit of color on the buds), put them in water and have a nice indoor flower arrangement.

Could you, would you, please take a photo of it to post? Its so cold and snow and ice covered here, that we've forgotten what spring looks like.

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

You haven't been here during the spring, have you? Oh, just wait! It's fantastic!

I arrived mid-May so I missed all of the April flower-related/Dogwood/Redbud stuff and remember all of the redbud photos on City Data and wishing I arrived sooner but I recall you told me I arrived during an unusually cool May. It was in the low 60s for the first two weeks I was here and that was fine by me.

I want to say on a fantastic note, I just resigned my lease and my rent only went up $10 (in NY and MD it used to go up $50 every year) but on a not as good note, it looks like electric may rise 7% soon in the town and I think, across East Tennessee.

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by alleycat

Back to springtime . . .

My Bradford pear and crabapple will be in bloom by next weekend. The crabapple is a beautify dark pink/light red. It's a little delicate however; some years I get to enjoy it for almost two weeks, and some years there will be a storm that blows the blooms away after only a few days.

If anyone else has a crabapple, you can cut off a few twigs (as soon as they're showing just a little bit of color on the buds), put them in water and have a nice indoor flower arrangement.

So, what does a Bradford Pear in bloom look like? I've only seen them in Fall and Winter - well, actually I may have seen them before that, I just didn't know at the time they were Bradford pears. No fruit, right?

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by gemkeeper

Phyll, it sounds like you might have to come back as a "farm" with all of the critters in your head braying, mooing, clucking, whineeeeing, rooster-a-doodle-doo-ing!

HERE ARE SOME OF YOUR CHOICES, PHYLL!! WHAT WILL IT BE, HUH?

Chickens rule!

[pineywoods]

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I vote for the piggy...he is so cute! (If only they look like that in real life!) At least they get to eat all they want and get down and dirty, Phyll

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by LauraC

So, what does a Bradford Pear in bloom look like? I've only seen them in Fall and Winter - well, actually I may have seen them before that, I just didn't know at the time they were Bradford pears. No fruit, right?

They are completely covered in white blooms; this is before they leaf out completely. Yes, they actually have little pears . . . about the size of a marble and sort of "gritty" tasting.