Got my hour / myLot

Centralia, Washington

March 26, 2023 11:19pm CST

My world has had frosty nights lately and pretty cold with rain off and on during the day. The front porch still was a bit warm this afternoon. Hubby and I walked Rufus around the block though I warm a jacket over my sweater to stay warm. This late afternoon the sun came out enough to cheer me. I took some moldering fruit and vegie stuff to the compost barrel that hubby installed in the back yard. Hope waited for me there. I spotted oregano bursting green from the earth and cat mint and I think chocolate mint. I checked out the garden plot that we had dug weeks ago and found a healthy looking rhubarb leaf- I hadn't killed it after all! The twin blueberry baby bushes sported healthy looking buds and the raspberry sticks had bitty leaves on them. I'm glad I went out there. Seeing that life really boosted my spirits.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (353035)

• Rockingham, Australia

27 Mar 23

Your garden does seem to be coming along nicely.

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (113927)

• El Paso, Texas

27 Mar 23

I hope you'll get a huge crop of berries ..... It's so dry here that I have to water everything and then the water bill comes and I freak, it's so expensive here.

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (64221)

• Centralia, Washington

27 Mar 23

@rebelann The utilities here are high, too. I think it gets dryer in the summer here than it used to. For now its freezing foggy mornings.

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (113927)

• El Paso, Texas

27 Mar 23

At least you have moisture, we don't see fog very often at all because there is no moisture

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (64221)

• Centralia, Washington

27 Mar 23

@rebelann It amazed me that we had fog when I lived on the dryer side of the mountains.

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ShannyBananny

@shaggin (74176)

• United States

29 Mar 23

Are any of these things ones you planted and they come up each year? That’s the kind I want. I didn’t know there were so many kinds of mint.

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ShannyBananny

@shaggin (74176)

• United States

29 Mar 23

@sallypup we have wild mint here I don’t know what kind it is exactly or maybe that is it’s own thing in itself like wild blueberries.

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (64221)

• Centralia, Washington

29 Mar 23

@shaggin Nice. I wonder if that wild mint makes good tea?

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (64221)

• Centralia, Washington

29 Mar 23

@shaggin Yes. You got it- these plants should come up every year now. Crossing my fingers but yes. I'd love it if the raspberries went wild and turned into a jungle. Yum. I have looked into varieties of mint. There are tons and easily spread. I am not into grass. Mint is tasty and gives bees habitat so I am all for mint.

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (143901)

• Roseburg, Oregon

27 Mar 23

You are going to have some good stuff coming up after all.

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James Higgins

@JamesHxstatic (29411)

• Eugene, Oregon

27 Mar 23

The last blueberries we planted were loved by our local squirrels. If I plant more, I will try to put a cage around them. It's 35 here so far with showers predicted.

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (64221)

• Centralia, Washington

27 Mar 23

@JamesHxstatic Uh oh. I her your warning. My world has many squirels in it plus bluejays. Quite foggy cold this morning but there is some filtered light out now that it is heading into afternoon.

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (64221)

• Centralia, Washington

27 Mar 23

@JamesHxstatic I hope that is an April Fool's joke.

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James Higgins

@JamesHxstatic (29411)

• Eugene, Oregon

27 Mar 23

@sallypup Not pretty out and the ten day forecast is kinda ugly, maybe a bit of snow on April 3rd.