by We made it through February chilled but mostly intact. There were some very windy days and some calm days. Those nice February days are hard to beat. Joyce’s apricot trees bloomed and were promptly frozen for their trouble. Maybe next year.
Chris suffered the loss of his bees here on SA due to the cold weather over the winter. He changed how he prepared the hives for winter and apparently the new method didn’t work as well as the old. What do wild bees do to survive the winter? Meanwhile he has continued to emasculate homeless cats. He must have unburdened half a dozen so far.
Abigail hasn’t had any tournaments the last couple of weeks and, if I understood her correctly, won’t have one until they go to Denver just before spring break. There have been lots of practice sessions, though, I’m sure. Recently she was recognized as a Superintendent Scholar for the third time. I think that means she is making good grades.
Li’l r and her book-reading team placed eighth or ninth out of 64 teams in a city-wide competition, the first time Olsen Park had a team finish that high. Last Saturday she baked some hanging ornaments made from flower, salt and water, a concoction that makes Tino the dog puke on the rug if he has a chance to sample it. she brought her wares down to 1911 and shook down, er, sold a few to her grandparents. For the time being they adorn various doorknobs around the kitchen.
Oh be joyful, it’s tax time. I will plod through the process and eventually get it done but in the mean time I’ll have to endure the nagging. It is sort of like when I was a lad and knew I should be studying for finals through the Christmas Holidays but wasn’t.
There has been a fellow helping me at Wildcat Bluff Nature Center on Wednesdays through the winter. He’s an elderly gent like me, recently retired. He showed up last fall and hasn’t missed many days since. We’ve been working at mowing down last year’s growth in the nature center area and are close achieving that goal. One or two more Wednesdays should do it. Our objective has been to get it done before green up. We’re cutting it pretty close but we’re much farther ahead of the game than we have been in previous years. It goes faster and easier once primordial prairie has been cleaned up once.
It appears from Jill’s FB page that Sophia is playing volleyball. Jill is so busy we don’t hear a lot about what is going on in Wiley world.
March started out with two very nice days. Though chilly, the air was calm and the sun warm, excellent for working outside. I put a pretty good dent in cleaning up last year’s garden growth and got half the grapevines and all of the fruit trees trimmed. Ground moisture is still good but it wouldn’t hurt us to have some more moisture pretty soon, especially given the wildfire problems the Panhandle is experiencing. Tulia came close to burning up just a few days ago.