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ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
A beautiful week of warmer weather, more like May and the farmers all around are tilling and sowing the land and gardeners are busy...
Colleen Green
May 20, 20213 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
The weather forecast seems to say the rains of April will continue a little longer, but, boy, have things grown. Some people have already...
Colleen Green
May 13, 20214 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
Another week and it will be May! Impossible, I say, but time keeps rushing on. This has not been a great week weather-wise, but that does...
Colleen Green
Apr 29, 20213 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
A week of drizzle and cool following some beautifully warm weather, but the flowers and grass are loving it! Almost time to start cutting...
Colleen Green
Apr 22, 20213 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
After a week of warmer than usual spring weather, followed by abundant but gentle spring rains, we will not be surprised to see a...
Colleen Green
Apr 15, 20213 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
Alfred Austin wrote; ”The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed, not...
Colleen Green
Apr 8, 20213 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
Another beautiful spring week when the temperature hit 21 degress two days in a row at my place, on the north side too! As Margaret...
Colleen Green
Apr 1, 20214 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
What lovely spring-like weather we have enjoyed the last few days! I still mistrust Old Man Winter but anything spring can give us is...
Colleen Green
Mar 25, 20212 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
Well, here we are halfway through March already and having passed several special days and coming up to even more. Monday, March 8th, was...
Colleen Green
Mar 18, 20213 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
It’s been rather a wild week and very cold. The sun has been shining most days, and it is getting warm. It is especially noticeable if...
Colleen Green
Mar 11, 20213 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
February sure was a short month! We celebrated Valentine’s, Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, the Perseverance landing on Mars, a beautiful...
Colleen Green
Mar 4, 20213 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
Some beautiful sunny days, blue skies and cold temperatures, but since it was supposed to be the polar vortex hitting us, we can’t...
Colleen Green
Feb 18, 20213 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
One week into February! A little more winters and they are talking polar vortex. A cousin who lives in Fort McMurray, Alberta, said it is...
Colleen Green
Feb 11, 20213 min read
ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
January-gone! It will be almost a quarter of the way into February before you read. Do you realize that February 17th is Ash Wednesday...
Colleen Green
Feb 5, 20213 min read
ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
Here we are, almost at the end of January. It will be interesting to see what the amount of precipitation and sunlight hours have been....
Colleen Green
Jan 28, 20213 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
Where, oh where, did the sun go? It tried a couple of days but just couldn’t overcome the cloud. Much like the lockdown we are in so far...
Colleen Green
Jan 21, 20213 min read


Zephyr/Sandford by Patricia Asling
Wasn’t it wonderful to have three whole days of sunshine? I think it was a mirage, a figment of our imagination, because it was certainly...
Colleen Green
Jan 14, 20213 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
Twenty-twenty is GONE! Hurrah! Usually I find New Year’s Eve more sad than happy, but this year it was the other way round. COVID-19 has...
Colleen Green
Jan 7, 20213 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
Another week, that was! Where does the time go? You wake up Monday morning and it feels like there is so much time ahead to do all you...
Colleen Green
Dec 17, 20203 min read


ZEPHYR & SANDFORD by Pat Asling
This Sunday is the second in Advent, the week of Peace. As usual, Carol O’Neil had a couple of apt quotes as the prelude to her message....
Colleen Green
Dec 10, 20204 min read
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