Today's Weather in Your Garden - 15

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A visitor yesterday.

Our chickadees are busy on the feeder. They don't know that we will be away this wkend so no refills. Heading into snow in Ohio.

Great shot Victor!

Thanks, Allison.

Awe, nice picture Victor, aren't they cute?!

35 degrees and partly sunny today. Took a walk around the 'Back Forty' to look for signs of life. Still pretty tightly wrapped, but there are a few green noses of bulbs starting to appear.
Patti, thanks for the woodpecker info. And as for Pat's Pizza, it originated in Orono.

I've enjoyed the town names everyone has posted and decided to chime in. We live in East Fishkill (which really is east of the town of Fishkill). It comes from old Dutch for fish and creek. A year or so ago, PETA decided that the town should change the name because it was inhumane. I think someone gave them a clue - duh!

Anyway, it's been windy and cloudy here most of the day. Currently 38.

Yeah, Mamasita, I remember that idiocy!

You'd think they'd at least check the reason for the name in the first place!

i want to know where the Throg's Neck Bridge got its name. It sounds ominous, like a place out of Tolkien or Lovecraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throgs_Neck_Bridge

Named after the section of the Bronx.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throgs_Neck

Educational night tonight it is... :)))

My bro-in-law lives there.

Which apparently was once called "Frog's Neck," but i don't think they really explained why Throg (or Throgg) specifically.
Can you imagine living in Throgg's Neck? That name really does sound foreboding.


oops - we crossed - i guess you can imagine living there!


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I used to live there once (Throg's Neck). It's actually one of the better places in the Bronx to live, good italian pastries/pizza, St Raymond's HS, St Raymond's Cemetery (one of the largest in the city), a very good Merchant Marine school Pres Bush visited last year, with a state of the art high tech indoor simulator which gives you a 360 view of the ocean as seen from the deck of a ship, as well as a real ship parked right outside the school in long Island sound, not to mention a Naval astronomical observatory.

Temp 36.8°, Wind NW 7.9 mph, Windchill 27.7° ☺

Guess which bridge...

Hey! It's the Throg's Neck! I'd recognize that bridge anywere. Great facts WC and everyone!

21 degrees and way too dark out there. I saw a dead skunk yesterday. Is that a sign of something good?

Skunks have been here for 2 weeks now. Nothing good to report.

Is anybody else having trouble with the thumbnail images this am?

Skunks - a good sign of spring. Just wait until they start bringing their little stinkers along with them! We have had a "white " skunk living around here for the last few years. All the neighbors have seen it. I looks like a long-haired cat until you realize upon further investigation "that ain't no cat"!

It's 30 here right now with intermittent clouds. Highs in the low to mid 40s We're getting ready to go do the mall walk. Can't wait for the warm weather so we can return to waking here on the road.

Nice and sunny it's supposed to reach 62. A wee bit chilly right now at 37 degrees.

38 and sunny here. Seeing tons of birds, including robins.

36 degrees and sunny. Things really starting to grow. I need to get out the leaf blower. Putting that on the "victor List". Patti

Wow - you really are advanced there, Patti. I'm jealous.

Oh wow look how tall they are and already to get blooming soon. Amazing what a bit of ocean can do for temps this time of year.

(sigh)

It's snowing again...

Think he's annoyed?

Nice shot!!

Were you bothering him?

Apparently!

Naw he's smiling for the camera Victor, look at his little beak. Course it is a permanent smile but still a smile. A great shot too! ☺

Thanks. Here's another view.

Great picture, but quit ruffling his feathers would ya!

Annoyed in the 1st one, aloof in the 2nd...
Great pics.

Appetizer in the third, but I can't show that...

Where is Pirl? Ok she's occuoied at the moment so i'll say it.......VICTOR!!

It was a pleasant day today--too nice for a funeral--very nice man in our creative writing class, very talented, & a wonderful gardening buddy--he championed the lowly kale--wrote many humerous stories about gardening, but he had been fighting prostate cancer this last year. Managed a dam walk to clear my head, but obviously not enough to get my pics on the site! I hate to call my DIL again--she must think I am senile. Maybe I can figure it out later.

45 degrees here and it was such a nice day. I wasn't expecting it but was pleasantly surprised just the same. Sorry to hear about your friend ROBINDOG, these things can really shake up your world.

By the way, my friend and I finally had our reunion weekend! Instead of CT we met in Rockland Co. (NY) where we went to high school. It was great to see each other and catch up after all these years. The next step will be to get together and let the husbands meet.

Ah ha! You got him Victor! He looks mad at you for taking his picture - he's going to be looking out for you now! hee hee!

Temp 39.5°, Wind SSW 0.1 mph, cloudy. ☺

57 degrees and sunny at 4:00 PM today. Lots of robins chirping. The farm pond down the road from me has about 8 x 10 feet of open water. Seeing that made me wonder when the Canada geese would start appearing, and didn't a few appear there the next day! That pond is a popular stop-over point on their journeys.