Saturday Sky - March 10th edition

It's 72 degrees right now--hard to believe it's just March. This last week has been gorgeous, and it looks like it will continue into next week, with just a few slight dips along the way. I actually had to turn the air conditioning on for a little while when I came home last night--it was over 80 degrees in my apartment.

Today's Saturday Sky features the kids, who took a little field trip outdoors today:


Pretty much everything that I could move went outside, except for the seedlings--they're still too tender to do any traveling.

Look at my 8-Ball Zucchini at 3 weeks old, making friends with the cacti:


I have to figure out someting to do with them--they're almost a foot tall, and we have at least 8 weeks before they can go out and stay out. Yikes!

Tomorrow I'll pot up as many of these as I can:


Several different types of tomatoes, basil, dill, some poppies and zinnias, peppers, cilantro--I have no idea where I'm going to put these so they can get enough sun to continue to grow. What was I thinking?

We do have some flowers at Casa Katya:


This is a pleiospilos nelii, a "split rock" or "living rock." It grows by splitting in half and growing another set of "leaves" while the old ones die. They have beautiful blooms, and I just got lucky and bought this one with 3 buds (I take no credit for this one).

One of my orchids continues to bloom:


This is a phalaenopsis, but I don't know the name--I need to go back to TLC Nursery and see if I can figure out what it is. There are at least 2 other places on this spike that look like they may bud, and another spike is developing as well. Hopefully this will continue to bloom for several months.

And I have these pretty african violets (don't know what these are either):


Sadly, there is nothing fiberly to show you. I hope to complete some spinning this weekend, but playing Mr. Greenjeans lately has put a serious dent into my fiber activities.

Don't forget to set your clocks up an hour tonight . . . .