Not that I'm particularly in need of having my spirits lifted. It just makes me happy to see the sun. And the cat kids like to lay in the sun when it's not hot early in the morning.I'm home for a full weekend this weekend, which is a little unusual here lately. So I'm doing all the puttering around the house chores - laundry, mopping and vacuuming, dusting, cleaning up cat areas, cleaning up kitchen, etc, etc. It's just a nice, quiet, puttering Sunday, which is really my favorite kind. I may do some plant potting later. I should plant those two cuttings that I picked up from the ground at the garden place and put in dirt, the Wandering Jew and the airplane plant. They're both doing well, and should probably be put in bigger pots. And I'm still fighting with myself about whether to put the two little pine trees in a bigger pot. Whether I pot things today or not will probably depend on how much energy I have left after the house chores.
I finally got a relatively decent picture of the female red-wing blackbird. She's very schitzy, so the picture is through the door and not excellent, but you can see her. The picture of her facing me is even worse, but you can see how dark the markings are on her breast. That's what finally helped me decide what she was. I haven't seen the blackbirds or cowbirds around lately, so I'm assuming they can find plenty to eat without the feeder. I still have plenty of sparrows and house finches and mourning doves though.
The cat kids survived my being away just fine. They're finally warming up to my pet sitter, which is good since I'm going to be away on trips a fair amount this year. I really appreciate my pet sitter. It's just nice to know that someone is going to be at the house at least once a day and that the old lady cats are getting some attention. My baby peach trees are struggling this year. That's another thing I need to do, plant them out in the yard. I don't think they like the pots, and of course, the weather has been pretty up and down, temperature-wise. In fact this week the temps are supposed to bounce up and down every day from 50s to 80s. Even my grass is just starting to come in strongly, which is way late. And of course we had those two days that dropped down into the upper 30s-low 40s. Temps like that this late in Texas really seems to throw off growing things. And add to that a decided lack of rain, it's no wonder things are struggling a little. My roses are going gangbusters though. I have roses ranging in color from pale pink to deep red. No yellows though. The people before me don't seem to have been much into yellow.
I've turned my sprinkler system on this year. I don't know if it's early to be turning it on or late since I moved in here last July. It feels like it's been a dry year so far. Lately anyway. I think the only reason we're not farther behind compared to normal rainfall amounts is that we had decent rain in January. Hmmmmmm. While I'm puttering, I should also move the aloe vera out away from the house where they can catch rain when we do get it. They're still all huddled up near the house for protection from freezing - which didn't work too well, but mostly they survived.
Anyway, I suppose I should get back to the chores.
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