Rain... Rain?

The rain we were supposed to get last night never came, but it is starting to look like we have some sort of weather moving in right now. It is supposed to be thunderstorms all day tomorrow, and the rain is supposed to continue into the Monday. I got about a hundred and fifty square feet of the east lawn seeded to grass, so only about five thousand more feet to go. (I ran out of seed, and then got side tracked doing other things instead of going to the store to get more.)

Things like making a batch of Dandelion wine. I have never made this before, but my dad knows a guy who does/did, and he thinks it tastes like gasoline… I got a different recipe, so hopefully mine doesn’t turn out that way. It is supposed to taste sweet, and slightly of honey… fingers crossed.

               It took me about an hour to pick a half gallon worth of dandelion heads, which is enough to make one gallon of wine.

I was walking around the yard yesterday and I noticed that the crab-apple tree was just starting to blossom, so maybe this freak thaw/freeze crap that destroyed the entire year’s crop of the rest of our fruit trees didn’t harm the crab-apple.

 

I checked in on my garlic, and it’s healthy and robust and strong as ever, so that makes me smile just a little bit. I am so looking forward to garlic this fall… even though I know I didn’t plant near enough to get us through until next year… sad, but I’m sure after the tears dry I’ll find some way to pick myself up and move on.