After what seemed like more than a week with no sun, we got plenty of it Sunday, and it felt like summer. I don’t remember going that long ever without my sunglasses.
Something about the sun and warmer weather makes you want to get out of the house and get in the yard, except for the fact that it’s still sloshy, nasty from the excessive rainfall.
Lisa McNeece
However, I put on a pair of boots and picked up sticks for more than an hour. The snow/ice had split some of the bamboo in the back of the house including the shoot that was growing up through the basketball goal, and I got all that down and drug it all to the road.
It was just great to be outside.
I trimmed roses and Knockout roses, pulled some weeds and swept the patio. I remembered from last year not to clean up the purple homestead Verbena. I pruned it last year and it didn’t come back.
When I finished all of that I put the ladder, tools and gloves up, when I remembered the Knockout roses in the front. I told Joel, who was on his way home from the SEC basketball tourney, that I had saved those for him.
As much as I love roses, especially the Knockout roses, I despise pruning them for obvious reasons.
Despite the bitterly cold weather we have had, the Rosemary I left out in the pot over the winter is still alive. I have tried for several years in several places in the yard to overwinter it, but it hasn’t worked. The one year when I don’t, it seems to have survived.
Joel and I have been planning for several weeks and clipping out photos of plantings for new places in our yard. It’s finally getting time to start working toward that.
Sunday afternoon we had youngest granddaughter Ellie Kathryn and she enjoyed playing on the patio with all of her baby dolls and our dog Jack. She covered him in stickers while he slept, surrounded him with baby dolls and covered him up with a princess blanket, also while he snoozed away.
Ellie Kathryn had a bad runny nose, and I could tell she didn’t feel 100%. Later that night, she, Joel and I were in the bed watching Team Umizoomi, and she said “Nana, I don’t feel good.”
She’s three, so can now thankfully tell you what hurts.
“Where do you feel bad?” I asked.
“Here in the bed,” she answered.
That was not the answer I was expecting.
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Local attorney Bob Cooper is expected home today from the hospital in Tupelo where he had surgery Monday. He was diagnosed with cancer of the salivary gland and it was removed. He is doing well.
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The online live cam of baby bald eagles and their parents has been keeping us entertained the past couple of weeks.
Three cameras are set up at Berry College in Rome, Ga. showing an eagle’s nest on the campus.
The college’s bald eagle couple first appeared on the main campus in spring 2012. Since then, they have continued to nest in the top of a tall pine tree.
The eagles produced two eaglets in 2013, one eaglet in 2014, and there are two eaglets in the nest now. You can watch them 24/7 by going to www.berry.edu/eaglecam.
There is a live feed and also screen shots of the eagle family. The mother is with them most of the time and the father from time to time. One of the screen shots is from a few weeks ago when the nest was covered in snow with the mother huddling the eaglets under her wing. It is simply beautiful. It’s hard to quit watching.
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The snow and ice have wreaked havoc on the roads with the worse spot in town, hands down, the deep pothole in front of Sonic. There have been many complaints and the highway dept. has been working on it. But it is still a problem spot.
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