Groundhog Day

Punxsutawney Phil may have predicted more winter...but my Terlingua Creek Cat's-eye plants say otherwise.  61,76,36,0,B

gutters and grub

Stocked up in Alpine today.  Chow for me and the cows and chickens, gutters for the west shade on the greenhouse, and another load of wood chips.  Picked up my copy of Maria the Plant Lady's thesis from Sul Ross.  68,89,46,0,W,0

Day 1 Surprise

Fed the boys, fed the girls, fed Carl.  Some geocachers came out to hunt down my spot.   Once they zeroed in on it, I took them to see the biggest Terlingua Creek Cat's Eye plants I had.  Lo and behold there were some blooms.  If it hadn't been for my guests, I would have never seen the flowers.  Found blooms on 9 other plants in the area of mother plant1 and mother plant2 as they were named by Maria the plant lady.  Cryptantha crassipes normally blooms in mid March so this must be an early bloom for 2013 for some of the plants that got confused by the wet October and warm November of 2012.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=28a7d8e7-0b5c-47bb-8864-1019ee9adaa0
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Early morning run to Alpine for Maria's thesis presentation....she rocked it.  Will post her paper when it is officially published.   Chatted up organic Mark and learned about the benefits of sweet potato greens.  Picked up solar oven parts, bits for new battery cables, and a long list of odds'n'ends.

Last stop was Blue Water Natural Foods.  http://www.bluewaternf.com/  They have a frequent buyer program now so I signed up since I'm shopping more there now than the grocery store.  My new favorite quote from Joel Salatin: 

Got home late and found OBC in charge...sort of.   Just happened to have a sweet potato sprouting so I stuck it in some dirt.  96,102,68,0,C,0

Maria the plant lady...

Holy Crassipes!

The Terlingua Creek Catseyes are blooming!  65,80,43,0,B