I have finally started my pepper seeds. Three years ago I bought one “Lemon Drop” pepper plant and got a great crop from it, more peppers than I had ever grown on one plant before. The next year I bought a plant labeled “Lemon Drop”, but it turned out to be some other variety, mislabeled. …
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Horn Pond Trip
We walked around Horn Pond today! It’s the first time we’ve been there in several years, but more importantly, the farthest we’ve been from home since the last time we came back from Casco, which was probably in October. Horn Pond is in Woburn, three towns away from here, an urban wild area that we’ve …
Snow Peas are in
I planted my snow peas today. It was a sunny day with temperature around fifty, but very windy. It took me a while until I decided that it wasn’t going to get nicer and I ought to get on with the planting. I put in four double rows of snow peas (some netting for them …
Zoom second Seder
I stocked up on Passover cake mixes so I would have something to snack on this week, and sure enough, today I made one of the cakes, a Manischewitz extra moist chocolate cake mix. It’s remarkably good. Of course I would never choose a Passover cake mix for any of the rest of the year …
First Seder of Second Zoom Passover
It was the first evening of Passover and this was the second year when Passover was done by Zoom. It’s a lot easier to clean up, but that doesn’t really make up for not having a big group get together. Charley and Patsy hosted, because Patsy has a zoom account through work that can stay …
Working on statistics
I also watched a few you tube videos about grafting apple trees. Maybe it will work! My vegetable patch is now all turned over; a bit more raking and it will be ready for planting snow peas. Near the beginning of the pandemic I started working on a web site to look at some of …
Spaded garden
I turned over more of my vegetable plot today. It’s about 3/4 ready to plant with snow peas, of which I think I have four varieties. I’ll say more (which varieties are in which rows, for instance) when I plant ’em, which could be as early as tomorrow but probably won’t. The dark area in …
Back to Cold Spring
A couple of weeks ago we set out to walk around Cold Spring Park. It’s just two miles from here, and probably less than a mile around, and sometimes has good birds. We gave up on that walk because there was an icy spot at a hilly part of the trail. It’s been warm enough …
Lumber Yard trip
I went out to National Lumber today — another BIG DEAL “emerging from the pandemic” thing — and got two 2x4s to support our cellar stairs, a clear pine 1×6 6 feet long — the guy actually said he gave me a 7 footer because that’s what he had, and at clear pine prices that …
Birthday Party for Anne
We went over to Charley’s backyard for a birthday party for Anne. Everyone missed proper birthday parties during the pandemic year. We did have something for family in that backyard for the grandkids, but since no school friends were there, I’ll stick with saying “not proper parties.” Today Arlene called in an order for sushi …