Garden Thursday

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Hello and Welcome to Garden Thursday with Virginger. Goodness, how time is moving on! It is already Memorial Day weekend coming up. Mum needs to get some flowers to plant in pots outside, really soon. I will need to get on her about that.

This is our crabby apple tree from outside, pretty much in full bloom the other morning when mum went out to take pictures.

This is the view we get from inside from mum's sleepy spot! Nice and pretty to wake up to in the morning. Sadly, the blooms don't last long, specially on rainy and windy days like we are having. Lots of pink confetti on the ground.

Mum cut off some lilac's and took them to work with her to enjoy while she day hunts. They smell so pretty but they don't last very long once cut.

Some of our special fevver furiends, Mr and Mrs Baltimore Oriole. They are so fun to watch when they come to the feeder. Plus they stand out so well in the trees.

Me, since it is cool and rainy outside, I even came in for a long nap with Derbs. Just catching up on what we need to bug mum about.

So that is the garden report for this week.

Love, Virginger.

Mini ManCat Monday

The cat lets Man support her. But unlike the dog, she is no handlicker. Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun. - Vance Packard

HiYa, Ducky here. Another week starts, we had a good weekend, we hope you did too. We had warms and the windows were wide open for whiffing!

Mum was so bizzy cleaning, laundry shuffling and such, she didn't take pictures of us. She did however see a new fevver she has never seen afor on Sunday. 

 Mum says it is a Scarlet Tanager and while she took it a bit easy on Sunday afternoon, it came by and sat in the tree for a bit. Mum was trying to get fevver pictures, so she had the fancy flashy box outside with her. The one with the big zoomer lens, so it looks all close.

So Derby and I napped a lot inside by the open windows, mum was outside with the flashy box and her book. Not a bad day overall.

CATurday

Hi Ya, Ducky here. It is a wonderful day. Getting all warms, the windows are open. We are enjoying window whiffs and hearing the fevvers sing.

So here we are enjoying the window together. Not often that happens, we like our space from each other. Matter of fact, Derby was so crabiliated on Friday AM he was hissing, chasing and just being a totally Sassy Boy.

Mum has gone nuts cleaning today. She did the usual laundry, then all of the little rugs around were taken outside and shaken off. Then down to the dungeon to be washed in the washer machine. The the sucking monster was out, and really going into the little places that don't often get cleaned super well.

Then mum brought out this little green monster, so she could clean the carpet spots where Derby yak'd all over them. He certainly does yak a lot. I don't, so that makes Mum happy.

Derby figures he will just sit on the newly cleaned bed and watch mum work hard to clean up after him. But with all of mum's cleaning it will take us days to get this place properly furred up again. She even washed our little donut beds.

Plus we finally got a picture of the Oriole at the feeder. We have been hearing them sing and knew they were back, but we like seeing them as well. Time that the fevvers going north for the summer are coming through.

We hope you had a nice Caturday. Oh yeah, we have a horsie race to watch soon too.

Garden Thursday

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Hello and welcome to Garden Thursday. It is I, task master Virginger, reporting. I have good things to report. 

 First, last week the didn't quite finish the mulch job, well they came back and finished it up, so it looks nice. Next time mum says she will remind them that even the area under the fevver feeders has to be mulched.

 The trumpet vine is just showing signs of life with new growth. Everything is slow this spring.

 The beginning of the tree trimming pile. I kept on mum and she did good, got the trees and shrubs in the back yard all done. Dead branches gone, shrubs thinned and shaped, bad stuff cut down.

 This is what mum had piled up from earlier, the little evergreen and the old trumpet vine stalks.

 Then she took down two smallish trees that were growing between our house and the neighbors. Mum does all of this by hand with a bow saw. No noisy chain saw for her!

 Mum pulled the one tree out farther to work on it.

 The pile of all the stuff by the street, then this past Tuesday, the village came and took it all away!

Here is the robin's nest out front. We will keep an eye on it for you and try to provide updates as we can.

Farewell Furiends

The Bridge is getting fuller, two more have made their journey.

 Obi from over at Forty Paws, yep, Jenny just left the other day.

Fergie of the Whiskers and Purrs Gang.

Farewell, have fun.

ManCat Monday

 The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer. - Paula Poundstone

Mum worked hard Caturday, but took it easy yesterday. She readed all of her big pile of magazines. Cooked her chick-hen outside and we were waiting for some inside. 

 We got some nice pieces of chick-hen AND mum let us lick her plate when she is done.

Mum checked the robin's nest from inside. The fevvers are sitting there, so she didn't scare them away on Caturday.

Happy Mum's Day

We want to wish our mum, all our cat furiend's mums, human mums and honorary mum's a

CATurday

Yay, the weekend is here! Mum has been bizzy outside, trimming trees. Managed to get done outside just before the rain shower got here. So she didn't get wet.

 We had a new spring fevver show up, Mr Rose-Breasted Grosbeak. Only saw this one so far, some springs we see lots.

 Mr and Mrs Robin have built a nest in the evergreen in front of the house. Mum peaked, no eggs yet and she will try not to get close very often so the fevvers feel at peace.

 But we have grate views. This is from outside by the window where we sits a lot.

 But one more window down is even closer and there is a table there we can sit on to watch.

 But not much going on so we will nap today. Mum can continue with her chores, the inside ones.

 Farewell Jenny at Forty Paws.

Get well to Ruis as well.

Garden Thursday

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Hello and welcome to Garden Thursday with me, Virginger. 

 

Stuff happened this week. Some good, some not so good. So here is the tail, er, tale.

 Two years ago mum had someone come and do the mulch. It takes her days to do this, the people she pays, about an hour. This is what it should look like above.

 Here is what it looked like when they were done. They just stopped 10 feet from the end and left the area around the bird feeders bare! Sheesh.

Plus they moved out the birdie bath, so she had to move that back in and get it all level and fill it with water. She sent them a message last night with the pictures and asked why they didn't finish. She hasn't heard back from them yet. Maybe time to use someone else next time. 

In other news, mum got the grass all chopped off and even. Looks nice. Plus she put out the Oriole feeder, we should be seeing them come back in the next few days. 

That is all for now. Thanks for stopping by our garden. 

Love, Virginger.

Derby's Gotcha Day

It is my Gotcha Day. Eight years ago today, mum swooped me out of the shelter and into her home and life. It has been a good thing, for both of us. So a toast to mum and me!

Here are some of mum's favorite pictures of me.

So grab some foods, drinks and let's party!