That I've Been Away So Long...

No Aster Flowers, But I Have Sown Some Marigold...

Didn't realise, with the onset of Spring, that more than a week passed since I've typed anything here!!! I have a good Mother-Earth excuse... Really, I do!!!

Even the cloudy/ cool days I've been plugging away, planting seeds to go in the ground here in a few weeks when the soil warms. I've changed my seed-starting technique...



Former soil was much too cloying, draining off too fast and hardening up after a good watering-- in other words, not holding moisture nor getting aerated. I Spent a few bones on some [40#] better soil [read: NOT TREE BARK-IN-A-BAG], 8 quarts of perlite (for aeration) and 8 dry quarts of peat moss (for moisture retention). I mixed them all together and every one of the 78 seeds I've sown-- both flower and fruit/vegetable [um, not that anyone's counting! lol!!!]-- got treated to the new stuffs.

It's been fun, but I'm exhausted. And what's more fun---the NOAA is predicting me three days of sunshine, I hope to be more by Saturn's Day. And have a lot more to show for my efforts?

Well, maybe more suntan! HA!!!

Slainte, folks

A Quickie For Osatra

First Day of Spring... Coffee and Eggs for Breakfast!!!

I've spent the last two out-of-doors, double-digging my outback garden bed.


The early afternoon dying Magic Ostara Eggs.


The late eating them! ha!

Perfect timing...

Slainte, folks!!!

Cygnus

No Patience...

but then, I ain't a doctor! HAR!!

Seriously, I canna wait any longer.

Well, truth be told, I already haven't.

Against 2 wise local opines saying "no sooner than easter" and "good freya's day", I've put my tomato seedlings out to sun.

Throw in some sunflower seeds, a bean or three here, some okra there. we're even discusing chickens, so eggplants might spring up round 'bouts...

Well, I had to do something; I'm down to my last two bags of fresh-frozen pods from last summer's garden. A garden I were able, given latitude, to start about St Valentines day.

Hey-- I had corned beef, cabbage, new potatoes, baby carrots, soda bread, and Feckin Irish Whiskey for dinner yesterday-- So... so I waited a Saints' Day later this year. I'm Pagan. Perogative...





If I get the severe cold before Easter Day, I'll cover the thing in plastic and tough it out. Hey... I gots more seeds...





Well, I'm near tuckered out from all the catch-up eating I done lately, so I beter go to bed. [Um, or is that Katsup??? Because, you know... that's all they feed me 'round here. I mean, why you think I'm forced, FORCED I TELL YOU to garden my own eats?

More as the season progresses, folks...
Slainte!!

Cygnus

Compost, Burn, Reuse, Recycle

I guest-authored a post for Mainstream Green tonight. Follow, copy, bow down...MuahHaHaHAA!!!

;D

Salinte, folks!

Cygnus

Are You One Of Those...

Who senses a few days go by and feels guilty for not having posted something-- near ANYTHING, oft it seems-- of late on your blog?

Well...I am. I always have several writ ideas fermenting in the ol' cranium. In fact, I've got an (upcoming) [mental] CATHOUSE post that should leave you in stitches-- both literally AND figuratively! LOL!! I read several other blogs daily and constantly get streams of ideas from them-- damned GOOD ideas, if I'd only pursue. And I WILL, I swear... someday.

Someday when LIFE don't interfere. Or more accurately-- since life always do-- some day life IS following them thar pursuits...

Well... life, last few days, hae been raining out-of-doors; I've ben forced to bite back my impatience for the coming of Spring and adapt. To... [bum-bahn BUM!!!] the INDOORS...
OKAY...

Indoor adaptation, as well as [my] recent Tejas transplantation, has warranted readying for that promised coming-of-Spring. To that end, I've [WE'VE, I stand corrected!] started, from seed, indoors, in myriad useful containers, better than 100 fruit, vegetable, and herb plants.
A Yule gift of pre-packaged herb garden variety now grows strong in the living room window, taking advantage of full afternoon filtered-thru-windows sun {keeping the radiant heat in and harsh elements out! HA!!!}. Some tomatoes what were included were added yesterday; the pea plant is the Evil Genius' intro to growing things...

The plethora of other stuffs started-- waiting the intense coming Sol's Beam almost as much as I am-- include two strains of cucumbers, three tomato varieties, eggplants, sweet {bell} peppers...

Well,... I suppose I don't blog as much of late here as I'd like to. Come summer you'll all be looking to escape the repetitive braggings of Cygnus Greening, though! HA! I GARON-TEE!!! For, then my bloggings will be rampant with braggadicia {I plead!} of self-feedings; of dinners so fresh they'd make Heidi Fleiss' head spin; of tasting fresh-tossed salads so fresh that... well, ne'er mind that... but fresh greens shall abound!

Slainte, folks! Hope your spring weather is approaching fast and furious!!!

Cygnus

On The Line...

Right On The Treeline, In The Back Yard:
Ain't it beautiful, the coming change?!!

Slainte, folks!

Cygnus

This Swan's Poetry

Follow THIS LINK to see some of my poetry.

No ruse here, folks... just realised I hadn't posted some in a while, and needed to do so on the other site tonight.

More soon, folks!

Salinte!!

Cygnus