Dan's Ramblings

Dan here. All well here on the pond. Been either way too hot or too cold and windy. I guess the wind is keeping the black flies away. Too windy for fires the last couple nights. Fire danger way too high to take a chance.

Been trying to get figured out what will get planted this summer. Carol showed you the window boxes on the retaining wall last time. I have planted a few other pots and have planted the big planter at the back of the house. Still need another trip to the greenhouse for a couple more plants for the front of the house towards the pond and beside a little fence between us and the neighbors.

Planting beside the fence is on hold as I wait for the landscaper to put the last capstone on the retaining wall.

I have been waiting since last fall. I now will be reminding him daily. 

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here, all is well here on the pond. Monday was quite chilly and breezy. Well not really breezy, it was down right windy. Even Winnie the Pooh would have thought it was more than blustery. The wind the last couple of days have blown a decent amount of debris to clean off the beach. Again.

Might get to it later today. Or not, time will tell.

I walked around the pond yesterday with daughter Erin. 

 We found a few Mayflowers on our journey. 

New Project

Dan here ~

What a wonderful stretch of walking weather we have had of late. I should finish out January with over 200 miles in my Walk Bank, well on the way to my goal of 2021 miles in 2021. 

I walk the same road several times a day and that road is icy in many spots. I walk looking at the ground in front of me usually doing quilt design math in my head. Works for me, I don’t notice how far I have to go and often forget where I’ve been. Yesterday I noticed a small stone on the ground. The stone was about 2-3” in diameter. What caught my eye was that for about 3/4” all around the stone the snow had melted down to the gravel road. 

Interesting that such a small stone could absorb and re-radiate enough light energy as heat to do that. Probably something wrong with me to notice things like that but I guess that’s just the way it is.

Landscaping

Dan here ~

Carol and I (ok really me) spend a lot of time in front of the fireplace in the evenings. I sit there, fire crackling and often read or listen to a book because with today’s technology I can sometimes switch back and forth. 

Reading by the fire

After having all the work performed on the house, (read about that here) the only area left was our tiny outside space.