This and That: A Blog

 We got a little snow last week.  Nothing to last long, and not quite enough to cover everything.  Still pretty, just not as pretty as a bit more would have been. Unfortunately, the gnome pair above didn't survive even the slight amount of snow! Mickey enjoyed himself.  (Yes, the deck needs some repair, that's a spring job!) Sunday was a lovely day, some clouds, but mostly sunshine and fairly warm. 62° Since a week ago the crocus have fully opened. So have some of the Tet-a-Tet daffodils.  Hope your week goes well. 

 So, it's Presidents' Day.  When I was in elementary school we had days off for Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays, whether they fell on a Monday or not.  February 12 for Washington, and February 22 for Lincoln, although Washington was born February 11, 1731 under the old Julian calendar.  In 1752 Britain and the colonies switched to the Gregorian calendar and his birthday was "moved" to the 12th.  The Uniform Monday Holiday Act took effect in 1971, changing some, but not all, federal holidays to Mondays.  Lincoln's birthday was never a federal holiday, but was a state holiday in about a dozen states, including mine at the time, California.  It still is a state holiday in a few.  Some states treated it as a school holiday, but not an official state one.  Getting on to the garden, here is what was going on yesterday. Autumn crocus, not actually a crocus, grows its leaves in late winter/spring, they dry up completely before the blooms emerge ...