My poor garden

Well, I haven't written anything about my gardening efforts this year because I have no garden to speak of. Extremely high temperatures, combined with severe drought = no garden. My blackberry brambles are doing OK due to a soaker hose. Very few blackberries, but this was its first year so I didn't expect much. This weather has been awful. Climate change has come to the United States. I was doing some activities with llamas and alpacas but I gave it a break cause it's been so hot. Very stressful for the animals. Boxer is really showing signs of age, has some neurological issues with his back legs, weakness and loss of sensation. He still wants to go for walks, but I keep them short and slow. My oak tree will probably have to come down, a huge branch fell from it and smashed the fence. The branch showed signs of rotting within that can't be seen from the outside. I'm worried a storm may blow the tree over onto the house. So I've been feeling pretty stressed out, keep forgetting things and very distracted a lot of the time. I hope you're doing well in your neck of the woods. Pray for rain.

Globe lamp

Here is my lamp made from a vintage globe--an idea I got from my favorite magazine, MaryJane's Farm. I got the globe for one dollar at a yard sale; the lamp was seven dollars and the trim was a yard for two dollars. So the total cost of my lamp was ten dollars--not bad at all. It now graces my living room.

This is winter?

It doesn't feel like January today--I took Boxer for a walk and actually felt a little warm by the time we were done. The other day it was freezing. Weird weather. Makes me wonder what the spring will bring. I've already planned what seeds to order--I'm not going to try growing so many different things this year--just going to grow those things I know will do well. I've been doing yoga almost every day now for the past few weeks and feel a lot better. I helped count eagles a few weeks ago and we counted 42. Not bad, but we probably would have seen a lot more had it been colder. We saw a great blue heron catch a fish--he just plunged his bill into the water and came up with a fish. They are beautiful birds. I hope we don't have a too-wet spring like last year. I'm looking forward to harvesting some blackberries.