C&CGC Spring Yard Sale

Greetings!  Curba and Cobblestones Garden Club wll be having its yard sale Thursday, Friday and Saturday!

Garden Club Yard Sale- Multi family- general items

279 Wentworth Avenue 8 to 1 pm

 

 Come by and see what we've got!

Club News! Great News! Our Membership is Growing Around North America!

News ... News... BIG News!

Congratulations Members! we have just received THREE National Garden Club Award of Participation for our activities in Ecology during the Convention in Kentucky.  Copies will be made for our members Handbook and submitted at our September Awards Meeting when the Golden Trowel Award is presented to a lucky member!

News ... News... GREAT News!

Honestly I don’t know how this happens... other than I say: “ Would you like to join our club?”  “Your welcome to!” And bam! People are throwing dues at me...

In Kentucky,   Andrea and I expanded our membership by 4 to include Lorene Junkin.  Andrea’s dear friend, Lorene is a MASTER Flower Show Judge and Master Floral Designer!  She lives in Gainsville, Florida. I’m certain Lorene as did Andrea, will share with us her wonderful talents. Joining our conversation, a lovely lady Shane Looper from San Francisco, CA stated that the New England Region was the champagne drinking bomb!~ and asked “can I join”... well sure! Would we ever turn down a fun loving person no matter what the distance? We now have two California ladies our dear Bonnie Jaross and Shane.  Shane was so please that she not only paid dues she also made a donation!  We thank you for your generosity!  

As you know I have been traveling with NGC since 1999, I have met a lot of people all over the country even South and Central America.  One of the dearest ladies and friend anyone could become acquainted with is Wanda Davis.  Wanda hails from Delaware, she also joined and turned to her friend Dottie Howatt (immediate past president of Delaware Garden Clubs!!!)  And Dottie joined.  Do you believe this!    Well the dust has settled the excitement of seeing American Pharaoh run the Preakness while in Kentucky has calmed.. And Lorene, Shane, Wanda and Dottie  assure me that they don’t want their dues back and they WANT to be members of our progressive garden club!  Just before  Andrea and I left for Convention sisters, Lydia and Maryanne join us!   Our club is bursting with membership! I’m now moving across the country to Colorado!  Two lovely ladies would like to remain in contact with our club (not members YET ) Dottie Vickland and CJ Leise two gracious women who are interested in the projects that we do.  

And finally.... a new concept for us to consider.. Which will be up for discussion at our cookout...

How would you like to consider partnering with a club similar to ours in Kentucky?  I met the president Cathy of a local Kentucky club, as she was hosting one of the lunches. Their membership is small and has the same objectives and commitments as we do.  I would like us to consider engaging this small club to be our “sister” club. We would exchange ideas and programs with them as they would do us.  It is a bold and progressive idea to keep garden clubs alive.  It's just a thought .. A pilot program perhaps ... want to see where this goes?

Is it time for someone to staple my feet to the floor?

Early Morning Junko Sighting on PEI!

Spring is coming, even though we still have three feet of undrifted snow in the front yard!  It's hard to wait for spring this long when my friends in Washington, D.C. are enjoying cherry blossoms in full bloom this week.  Spring birds are returning to the Island.  I'm watching a junko and a siskin at the bird feeder.  We had a suet cage until yesterday, and now it's nowhere to be seen.  We think a crow may have made off with it when no one was looking--maybe we'll find it in the woods when the snow is melted!

Spring Birds!

Bonni and Sharon Sighted Siskins in Lowell and PEI (early April, 2015).


Sharon also saw:

A hawk near her home in Crapaud, PEI:

 

and some Canada Geese near the Tryon River on the south shore of PEI:

More Bird Sightings from Our Members

Suzy Szablak recently spotted a screech owl in the Lowell area, and several weeks ago, Barbara and Paul Copley spotted a Merlin hawk.  Here in Prince Edward Island, I've seen several bald eagles and hawks, but could never get close enough to the hawks to see them clearly.  Crows and seagulls are everywhere, as usual.  With all the snow we've been having, it will be very nice to see the return of the songbirds in the spring!

 Merlin Hawks

Screech owl

This is the list so far of bird sightings that our members have submitted from Texas to Prince Edward Island, Canada:

2014-2015 Curbs & Cobblestones Garden Club Bird Sightings “Big Year” to date: [ September 2014 to January 2015

Member B- Northeast : Great Blue Heron, Mourning dove, white breasted nuthatches, blue jay, female and male northern cardinals, black capped chickadee, female purple finch, crow, grackle, tufted titmouse, male and female house sparrows, American tree sparrow, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker. Red-belied woodpecker, starling, brown creeper. A gaggle (8) Wild Turkeys,

Member P- Northeast : Red-tail hawk (soaring), rock pigeon, herring gull.

Member L/C- Northeast : humming birds, eastern bluebird

Member E- Southeast Atlantic :Turkey Vulture, Red Shouldered Hawk, Killdeer, Mourning Dove, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Eastern Phoebe, Blue Jay, American Crow, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Wren, Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, Eastern Bluebird, Swainson’s Thrush, American Robin, Northern Mockingbird, Brown Thrasher, Cedar Waxwing, Yellow-Rumpled Warbler, Eastern Towhee, Northern Cardinal, Brown-Headed Cowbird, House Finch, American Goldfinch

Member B/P- Northeast : Gaggle of Canadian Geese, mallards, herring gull, Merlin Hawk

Member A/S- Canadian Providences: Great Blue Heron, chickadees, crows, herring gulls spotted yesterday, Canada geese and mallards earlier this month near Summerside, PEI, a morning dove and a bald eagle spotted yesterday near Crapaud PEI.

A Couple More PEI Bird SIghtings

This week, on January 7, I saw a red-breasted nuthatch while walking down the driveway in Crapaud, PEI, Canada, and yesterday, January 9, a bald eagle was circling the trees in the backyard.  It snowed quite a bit yesterday and it's beautiful outside, though very cold.  Still, the day after a snow storm is always beautiful, even if we enjoy it from the inside.