Snowing and Growing

WHITE STUFF: We've had a bit of snow around these parts. Not feet, or even inches, plural, to report, but even the inch we have has made it a bit tricky to get around. 

Yesterday afternoon, Annabelle noticed some tracks in the snow. They led from our back stoop to under our barbecue. At first she thought it was bird tracks (we have a bird feeder out back, and a bunch of birds as a result), but then she realized the tracks were in sets of four (with a little belly indent in between!). 

We have lots of little brown bunnies around the yard, and are certain these track below were from one of those. We also found tracks in our side yard and across our driveway, down to the blackberry bushes across the street, where they like to congregate.

Our driveway also had 'penguin' tracks.  

That's actually (obviously) human footprints, but you can see how close together the steps are. That's because you want to kind of waddle like a penguin in the snow and ice, as the graphic below shows.

INDOOR GARDENING: We have used our snow days to get caught up on a couple of indoor gardening projects. 

Yesterday, we took some of our succulents that were looking scraggly, cleaned them up, and then repotted them into a new terrarium.

What an improvement, going from the ugly plastic pots above to the glass container below! Much better!

Today, we dealt with a head of garlic that got away from us in our produce basket on the counter. Rather than tossing it, Annabelle looked up how to grow garlic. 

A number of articles suggested splitting the head, planting cloves, and then using the greens from them that grow like you might use chives. So, that's what we did.

We even ventured out into the ice to find some gravel to put at the bottom of the containers. The 'best' part was when I was bent over, whacking at the frozen ground, trying to unearth some gravel and my glasses fell off my face and slid all the way down our driveway, only stopping once they came to rest against a car tire at the base of our driveway. Annabelle was kind/brave enough to fetch them for me.

Once safely back inside, we put some gravel in the bottom of our containers, and then some soil. Next, the sprouted cloves were planted, one by one.

We'll see what becomes of them. We have two planters like the one below.