Three Dead Mice

[calzephyr]

I have to buy new seed for the bird feeder, yet I find it amusing that in the morning and in the evening there's a little sparrow scout checking things out. The bird feeder attracted some mice, naturally, and I'm sure there's a few under the deck still. The orange cat that's been hanging around the bird feeder managed to kill a few of them. I discoverd one the same day my parents came to visit, so Dad took care of it and in the process discovered another :S I was poking around in the flowerbed yesterday after work and found a third, so I just buried it :-P All of them had been dead for a while.

I thought my crocus wouldn't come up, but it looks like three have started. I was so disappointed to see grass where I planted it instead of the classic image of crocuses poking through the snow. Well, those little blades of grass are the crocus! Please please please bloom crocus! I gotta get out there again - the flowerbed is so blah and full of dead grass and rabbit poop. I can't wait until the May long weekend to buy some bedding plants.

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[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Crocus are only starting to come up for you now?! Just how far north ARE you? My allergies have been driving me crazy b/c everything from cherry trees to pines have been blooming. Thankfully they seem to be moving away from the pollinating and towards the leaves, so I may be able to breathe again in a week or two.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Heh! We're at 51 6' North :-) We had a horrendous snow filled April alas instead of rain the buds are just starting to come out. The only thing really blooming are dandelions right now :\ The May long weekend is the traditional planting time in Canada.

I sure wish I lived where you are! I saw your allergy post, it's too bad that Zyrtek wasn't a wonder drug.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

42.5ºN or so here. I keep saying I want to spend a few months or maybe a year up in Alaska or somewhere similarly far North just to experience the difference in the seasons and the night sky. I found it fascinating when I spent a summer in Arizona how I could see more southern constellations that I'd never seen up here.