Ah, spring in Rochester! When walking to class doesn’t involve feezing halfway to death, and it actually makes sense to go outside. Oh, yeah, and there are cold snaps that just keep coming.
I’m not exactly sure what I did to celebrate it, but now I have an empty bottle of Jameson, that was once full, so I’m sure it was fun.
Dont’ do anything. Moles eat grubs, which are bad for the grass. If you’ve got moles, you’ll have a good lawn.
Spring around here isn’t much different than anything else, so I never really know when it’s arrived or not. I guess I should just go by the calendar.
Anyway, I was up in Oregon for grandpa’s party this weekend. I’ve had enough of flight delays and airport terminals for the rest of the year…AT LEAST. I’ve also had enough of nosy Italian relatives. Oy.
I’m tired. And I don’t want it to be Monday.
We have a groundhog that comes by a couple of times a week and eats all of our dandelion heads. I love that little rodent. She’s also very cute, the way she waddles around and sits on her haunches and sniffs the air. She’s a very fat groundhog, probably from eating all of our dandelions.
Baseball home openers!
The smell of coppertone and garlic fries. The taste of an all beer hotdog with the works and a beer. The sound of the announcer, the smack of the ball on the bat, the roar of the crowds.
And blissful, warm, sunshine.
Signs of spring here in the desert -
Well, I’m sure there’s more but my allergy medicine has clouded my thinking. Mmm, add allergies to the list of spring events.
We watched The Big Bounce on HBO last night. Anyone else think it was thrown together, as in “Hey, let’s make a film in Hawaii with Owen and Morgan and throw in some bikini scenes”. Anyway, Owen Wilson cracks me up, so I enjoyed it. Mr. Beckwall liked the girl in bungaloo 9 much more than the lead blonde, and apparently so did Owen. 
Is it spelled bungaloo? No time for spell check, gotta post.
:eek: Around here, you could get arrested for that.
I have misplaced my pants.
Why can’t you? Does PETA dispatch a SWAT team if someone spots a mole trap in your yard?
They’re still available, but harder to find. Try a garden catalog like Henry Fields
Are you sure all your neighbors are gone? I have to wonder, if he had no pants on, why did he even bother with the tank top?
Several years ago my boyfriend took the dog out wearing only a towel (him, not the dog), a strong breeze came along and the towel came off. He thinks he saw my neighbor in their kitchen window at the time. Embarrased by that he avoided being the one to take the dog out for a while after. Fast forward to yesterday, he got up and took the dog out and fed the cats, when he came back in the room I realized he had nothing on so I had to wonder if he’s back to giving the neighbors a show.
It’s road runner season! Quick, somebody hide the Acme catalog from Wile E! 
Ok, I got nuttin’ else to add. I just couldn’t pass a road runner and coyote joke up.
-swampbear (beep! beep!)
Had a few beers, eh? 
Is that Rochester New York?
Hmmmm. . . yesterday started out sunny. Then it rained. Then it cleared up at my house, but kept raining a block away. Then it was windy for a bit. And then the clouds broke up just in time for the early evening sun to slip through the budding branches of the lilic bush. And then, it rained.
Spring in the Pacific Northwest, aka “how to always be dressed wrong for the weather”.
DrkG if you kill the grubs, the moles will go away. It’s a lot easier to get rid of the grubs than it is to get rid of the moles (and voles - don’t forget them) when you don’t do anything to get rid of their food.
I saw a big fat possum last night. It was underneath my car and went scurrying out (well, waddle, much like a groundhog) when I started that thing up. I thought it was a big rat at first. One of those wharf rats that can take down a German Shepard when cornered.
I say kill the grubs, and the moles, they are both damaging to the yard. Some simple GrubEx will do the trick most of the time on the grubs, and there are a variety of good mole killers. I recommend the gas cartridges that you can pick up in 4 packs at Home Depot for about 6 bucks, those things are great. You stick them in one of the open holes, make sure that the rest of the holes are covered over, light the fuse, and let the magic happen.
My favorite springtime ritual is sitting on the back patio after mowing the lawn for the first time, nursing a beer, listening to a ballgame on the radio, and watching the thunderstorms come in. Unfortunately, no thunderstorms as of yet, but the rest is playing out well.
To all the other home growers, my peppers, allyssum, and petunias are leafing nicely under the grow light in the laundry room, but the tomatoes are lagging, which troubles me. Only a few more weeks until they go out to the garden, and no greenery in site yet!
So, a question to all you green-thumbed people:
What plants should I put in a windowsill garden?
I apparently didn’t get enough of travel this weekend. We’ve begun planning on a trip to Vegas. Anyone have any recommendations? Whatcha like to do there?
It is indeed Rochester, NY. Infact it is so much in NY, that it is almost painful.
You want flowers or edibles? (Or both - some flowers are edible as well as prettiful.)
I haven’t flashed the neighbors in years, but today while still in my jammies, I put the final coat of paint on the front ex-dining room windows. Lots of kiddies going to school got a glimpse of me in my cute jammies. (They’re modest jammies - long pants and a long-sleeved top, but cute-cute-cute, white with leetle blue flowers all over.)
Jammies! snuggles LifeOnWry
Prettiful and edible both are good