finbar visits horse or: for God's sake I hope that tomato plant survives!

[Alexander's Horse]

The kids loved Dermott.

[Jon Miller]

get a dog

Jon miller

[finbar]

Mrs Horse won't have a dog. On the basis that she's the one who would have to do all the work. Very astute, Mrs Horse.

[Alexander's Horse]

Her other reasoning being a dog would raise the household idiot quota to 6.

There's just her and the rabbit to balance the ledger.

[Odin]

Like your yard, AH. Fall is here in Minnesota, and a drought this summer has lead to some very poor fall color. Most years the many ashes in town turn orange and occasionally purple. The local Silver Maples and Paper Birches turn a sunny yellow. This year the ashes just shriveled up and shed their leaves with no color change, and the maples and birches put on a poor show. After our long winters the spring is spectacular, with many trees blooming, especially crab-apples, rowans, lilacs, and plums. Our many conifers, like White Pine and Balsam Fir, are really cool. Too bad it is too cold here for many exotic trees I like, such as Southern Beech, Monkey Puzzle, Totara, and Cedar-of-Lebanon.

I WANT SPRING!

[Jon Miller]

get a couple of cats to even things up

Jon Miller

[Alexander's Horse]

Odin, yeah we're coming out of drought and fire here so the spring blossom was a bit disappointing in spite of a lot of rain recently. The trees and plants must have been really stressed out to be still feeling the effects.

But some of the fruit trees have just gone into a late bloom which has been awesome. Also the grape vines are just starting the blossom nicely so we should get some nice table grapes this year. Must find out how to make vino.

[Skanky Burns]

Is there any hope for my garden?

[Skanky Burns]

I just sprayed weedkill on most of the weeds in the above picture, but I have no idea what I'm going to do with this area.

[orange]

excellent pictures Horse Nice to see the wife and kids

[ravagon]

at pretty much the whole thread.


But what happened to poor Snowball?


Skanky, your garden is positively flourishing in comparison to my half-dead Australian fern.

[Alexander's Horse]

I think Skanky has brought new definition to the word garden.

[Odin]

Skanky, your plants need water.

[Straybow]

Isn't October late for snow there? Or are you in the mountains?

/me prepares to take notes for when it comes time to target AH with ICBM

[Alexander's Horse]

Australia doesn't have any serious mountains by world standards but what passes for the Australian Alps start in the mountains next to Canberra.

So we get cold snaps through Spring right up till November (remembering our spring is your autumn).