Wacky weather

Yesterday was cold and breezy, with intermittant sunshine and snow flurries, sometimes both at the same time. Today is an "in like a lion" day - more wind but slightly warmer temps and plenty of sun. Various spring flowers started to emerge, but now they seem stalled.

This past week, my SO and I fenced off the corner of the yard where a variety of wildflowers will go. The fencing is nothing fancy, bits of this and that laying around. The point is to keep the dogs out. We also relocated a few bird feeders.

As you can see in the above photo, we are also getting rid of the cinder block raised bed in that area. Once the ground is firm enough for the mower, we'll transfer the blocks to the far end of the driveway where they will be free for the taking.

Now I can sit in my recliner in the den and keep an eye on all the bird feeders and the bird bath. The funniest avian thing I've seen this week is several robins who park themselves under the bark butter feeder and the mealworm feeder, scavenging for crumbs. They will even chase away the starlings even though it is the starlings who drop bits of bark butter and mealworms on the ground.

In preparation for having some work done on the front of the house, I've been digging out the planter on the front porch, filling up large plastic pots into which some rhubarb plants will be transferred. From what I've read, you can grow rhubarb in containers as long as you slide them into the garage over the winter. So that is what I plan to do since the rhubarb bed will become history with the new landscape design.