The color of the day is White!
Frosty 12-06-09 Morning
It was frosty yesterday too. First morning I had to scrape the entire car, side windows too. Carl did help on the last bit of the front window when he brought me out my coffee. Yesterday it was dark in the AM. This AM it is late enough to know it is foggy, but still almost feels like a sunny day.
I just took a break to take out compost and recyclables. The lids to all of the associated vessels were frosted shut.
The excitement in our back yard reached a fever pitch among the rodents this week. I am visually hampered because, except on the weekends, it is always dark when I am at home. Carl doesn’t take the kids out back, so it is not always on his agenda either. But he specifically looked yesterday, and the precious little furry devils had been rolling up corners of the sod again, and moving some of the smaller pieces. It was cold enough that Carl had to wait for the middle of the day to put them back because they were so stiff in place.
This means we are moving to the next level. I went and bought some “landscape pins” on the way home. Who knew there even were such things. I also looked at some deer fencing that we could try. (Not installed vertically like you do for the deer, but horizontally, like a blanket.) I am going to wait for the next assault and pin any that get pulled.
I am a little more worried about the survival of our new lawn. It looked fine when installed, and we started watering per their instructions. Then the deluges hit. Then two “normal” days when we decided to let it dry out a bit to maybe a normal moisture content. And now the heavy frost, which is supposed to last several days.
But since you can’t control Mother Nature I guess we will just have to wait. And try to control the squirrels.
The excitement in our front yard was last night. Our street only allows parking on one side – the opposite side. But there is a popular restaurant at the end of the block and some popular people live here, so sometimes there are also cars parked on our side of the street, all the way up to our house. It makes for a skinny street. But last night that was not the case. I was sitting in the living room and heard sirens. This is not too infrequent as we are near a busy street. But then I heard the big engine noise getting closer. definitely sounded like a fire truck. So I opened up the front door, and a really big ladder truck pulled up in front of the house. No smell of smoke, and they went into a house across the street. An ambulance followed. We know the man of the house, younger than us, has had back problems in the past, so maybe that is all it was. “All?” To need to call 911 makes it more than a little thing. We hope they are all getting better.
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