Gardening Season

Late yesterday I went out to the garden and to my suprise, I found that the asparagus was starting to come up. Unfortunately the dead foliage from last year was covering it plus the unseasonable heatwave had generated a lot of weeds that don't usually appear until May. So I spent Sunday afternoon clearing the asparagus bed, plus the rhubarb (which is also looking promising) and found that the tarragon, mint, oregano and garlic chives were also poking sprouts out of the ground. Of course, the garlic that I planted in the fall is also poking up. I went to Waterloo Gardens and bought arugula, dill, lettuce which I will get in the ground next weekend and edamame, which I will have to wait until May when danger of frost is past.

Yummm

Easter

A good part of the family came over for Easter Dinner today and the bunnies enjoyed their newly sodded mossgarden. The old one was looking sort of scrubby due to being burried in snow and then saturated with days and days of rain. Fortunately there was a healthy crop of moss under the deck, so I just laid it in on top. My grandaughter and daughter-in- law were very admiring. The Easter Egg hunt was also a big hit. Naomi got a lamby beanie baby and Reed got a monkey. Naomi confided that she hadn't brought her beloved lamb puppet because the lamb gets upset at the thought of lamb being served for dinner.

APJ talked about getting an IPAD (no suprise here) and AB about his horticultural endeavours. A good time noisy time was had by all, but we missed having ABJ and SJ here with us.

Bunnies of the Week

Since ABJ is on holiday this week, I thought I would fill in (belatedly) for the Bunny of the Week with the cover of The New Yorker magazine we received yesterday.

Sundance Knocks off ABJ Original Design

Hmmmm....... remember these? Sundance is selling them in 1 3/4" for $58.

"A lustrous take on the classic, our sterling silver hoops are lined in lovely white pearls."

Valentines

With all the snow, I have had a lot of enforced time indoors, so I made lavendar Valentine sachets to hang over the hangers I made for my family this Christmas. These are ABJ's. She can look at the pictures until she gets back to the US to pick them up.

I could have posted a lot more pictures of all our snow and the huge banks of snow that line all our driveways and the roads, some of which are still not clear, but I am getting pretty tired of snow, particularly since we have had two car accidents in the past 3 days. Even the kids aren't playing much outdoors because it is too difficult to get around in 4 ft of snow and the poor dogs just wander unhappily around the road hoping to find a nice piece of grass where they can do their duty.

Hour by Hour

And the hour by hour forecast through Wednesday evening is
Snow
snow
snow
snow
snow
snow
snow
snow
heavy snow
heavy snow
heavy snow
heavy snow
heavy snow
heavy snow
heavy snow
heavy snow
heavy snow
heavy snow
snow
snow
snow
snow
up to 20 inches they say and last weekend's snow is still thigh deep on the ground. Going to beat the winter of 96 for the snowiest winter on record.

Feeding the Birds

Looks like we got about 24" in total by the end of the day. Tootsie had the right idea, though she got a bit bored as her customary view became increasingly blocked. This morning when the temperature got up to 15F I ran out and shoveled around the edge of the deck. No way the path to the front door will be freed since Bob created a 5' snow mound in front of the path facing the driveway with his plow. I also waded out and filled the bird feeder and quickly attracted a red cardinal and two juncos.

We are all a bit preoccupied getting all of this cleared out since they are predicting up to 20 more inches starting Tuesday night. That will beat the all time snowfall record of the winter of '96 (remember ABJ?).