Archives for January 2015

Last summer we received a bat house as a gift.

The giver is a bat lover, and he had heard that we had a few bats that needed a new home.

Because our house is not a good place for them.

Because waking up in the middle of the night to the sound of a bat flying around your bedroom is not pleasant.

We were supposed to mount it about 15 feet high, away from trees, and facing the morning sun.

First the hole had to be deep enough.

My handy husband traded another chopped down tree trunk for this more suitable pole.

I was very helpful, as I took  plenty of pictures to capture all the action.

I did hold the pole up straight, so Doug could start shovelling in the soil. So I did do something.

And there it is. All ready for next spring, when the bats are supposed to find this lovely new home for themselves.

I’ll let you know if they move in.

Oh, the arrival of the new season’s seed catalogue!  Always some new seeds to try.

These are the ones I regularly use.

Veseys has seeds, but also sends out the bulb and plant catalogue.

I’ve ordered from Stokes for many years, always excellent products.

There are several more companies but everytime you order a few seeds from a different source, you pay shipping fees again.

So I try to make it a worthwhile order, and keep it to these three, or sometimes only two of them.

Anyway, it’s lovely to sit with the catalogues and a cup of coffee, with the snow swirling outside,

and dream of the summer garden, full of blooms and buds.