the miserable gardener

Greetings and salutations, everyone; yes, once again it is I, Mani the purebred border collie, filling in for the guy I live with, and here today to talk about the weather. You may remember me from such posts as “And So It Snowed”, among so many, many others.

Here I am in a characteristic pose.
As you can see, I’m not gardening.

This is what our garden looked like this morning.
Yesterday, I think, the guy I live with took this picture of the cottonwood in the field.
The guy I live with says it would be silly to say that it’s been snowing here, because it’s kind of obvious. It is obvious, isn’t it?

This is more moisture for the garden than we received in August, September, and October combined. He’s pretty happy about this, but we’re not doing any gardening right now. I like the snow too, but it’s kind of boring not being able to do things in the garden.

So that’s all I have for today.

Until next time, then.

Greetings and salutations, everyone; yes, once again it is I, Mani the purebred border collie, filling in for the guy I live with, and here today to sort of bring you up to date in what’s been happening here. You may remember me from such posts as “Still Dry”, among so many, many others.

Here I am in a characteristic pose.The guy I live with drained the birdbath, cleaned it, and filled it with new water right after he saw me looking at it.
He’s been rescuing yellowjackets who go for a drink and then can’t get out of the water. I guess they don’t know how to swim.
But he’s also tired of having yellowjackets in the garden.

We had a bit of rain last weekend, about two millimeters, which is our total for this month so far, but the guy I live with said that two millimeters didn’t even put us in the top five driest Octobers for Denver. October can be a very dry month here. More rain would be nice. Even snow would be nice.

Not a whole lot has been happening here, except for watering.
He says the lack of rain is depressing, and would like it to rain every day for a month, even if everyone else in the city thought that was depressing.
The weather has been very nice in any case, though I hear we’re supposed to get near record high temperatures either tomorrow or the next day.

Still, there are crocuses. These are all Crocus speciosus, including the white one.
And there are some snowdrops. There are autumn-flowering snowdrops just like there are autumn-flowering crocuses, cyclamen, and narcissus.
So things aren’t totally horrible.

I think that’s all I have for today. I’ll leave you with a picture of me, making sure the hose stays put. Someone has to do it.

Until next time, then.