ORDERING TREES

I want to start gardening so badly that I have to do something to kick start the season.  I want to feel like I'm getting back into the gardening groove. 

 

Dennis is starting some seeds indoors, under the grow lights, and planning his raised bed garden.  My thing is trees.  I put together an order of a few seedling trees from the Peoria County Soil & Water Conservation.  I have been buying from them for years.  Our beautiful Norway Spruce are 6 ft. tall now.  The Red Twig Dogwood really took off the first year.  I am very happy with everything I have purchased from them. 

 

I want some Red Bud trees to stick along the edge of the timber for color.  They sell 10 inch trees for $2.00 each. I can always find room for a couple more, and I need something red.  I picked out a 12" Red Maple for $2.00. 

 

 

The form is complete, the check is made out and ready to mail.  On April 11th I can pick up my trees at Exposition Gardens in Peoria. 

 

I feel much better. 

MISSING BIRD FEEDER

The snow is melting, and the past few nights have been rather pleasant.  People are not held hostage in their homes any longer because of wicked weather.  The car windows are not as frosty as they were.  The grass and is visible in some areas of the yard where the wind has blown the snow away.

One more thing.  The raccoons are very active at night.  About ten o'clock at night I can hear them ravaging the bird feeders outside my window. They squeak and chatter and try to climb the Shepard hooks.  Seeds fall to the ground.  The dogs bark and we all run to the window and tap the glass to shoo the racoons away.  They look at me through the glass, annoyed.  Then turn and follow their worn path back to the timber.

Every morning I refill the feeders.  Today one was missing.  It was not on the hook, or on the ground, or over there, or under that.  It was gone.  Those blasted raccoons ran off with the entire bird feeder.

If you see a raccoon dragging a wooden box, it could be my bird feeder.