Re: Weekend/now birds

Seems like my goldfinches have flown the coop about a month early.  You
folks in Oklahoma keep your eyes open for the fat little returning birdies.

On 3/3/06, Cathy Carpenter <cathy.c@insightbb.com> wrote:
>
> The red wing blackbird males have returned here and are busy staking
> out their territories.
>
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>
> On Mar 3, 2006, at 7:24 AM, Bonnie Holmes wrote:
>
> > What bounty!!  I've been eating brussel sprouts and broccoli from
> > our fall
> > garden...winter wasn't cold enough to do them in.  Forsythia,
> > daffodils,
> > Lenten rose are all blooming.  Birds are mating.  Spring is
> > definitely here
> > in our area.
> > Zone 7 ETN Bonnie
> >
> >
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> >> To: Garden Chat <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Date: 3/3/2006 5:57:36 AM
> >> Subject: [CHAT] Weekend
> >>
> >> We're looking forward to this weekend. Weather is forecast to be
> >> mid to
> >> high 70s, 20 percent chance of rain, on-shore breezes in the 5 mph to
> >> 10 mph range. And we have a whole pile of residual chores to take
> >> care
> >> of.
> >>
> >> I loaded up the dehydrator with papaya this morning, but there
> >> will be
> >> another 5 or 6 pound fruit to deal with by Sunday. And we'll need to
> >> start canning tomatoes, too [they're piling up on the kitchen counter
> >> now].
> >>
> >> Some of the fruit trees--especially the sugar apples and the
> >> loquats--need to be pruned. If we pick the ripe fruit from the pruned
> >> loquat tree limbs, we'll be forced to bake a cobbler or two [waste
> >> not,
> >> want not]. The sugar apple is neither blooming nor producing at the
> >> moment, so pruning it will be routine.
> >>
> >>
> >> Island Jim
> >> Southwest Florida
> >> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> >> Hardiness Zone 10
> >> Heat Zone 10
> >> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> >> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
> >>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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