The hillsides have their rosy blush, stippled mauve with an impressionist's brush, no other mauve so lovely.

The young apples were hard hit by midnight marauders, bark robber rabbits this winter; how discouraging, to see healthy vigorous trees that you spent good money on, gnawed on the whole way around. Yes, we wrapped them but not high enough in this year of record snow.. Well 2 thirty dollar replacements are waiting for there hundred dollar holes. Next winter we will wrap them to the high heavens, a good assurance that we will get no snow.

The chickens are laying up a storm of eggs now, as old as they are. there are 13, half are only 3 years old but the others have to be 6 or seven.The Silver Wyandotte, to me. is the most attractive. Personality wise, the Barred, Rhode Island Red cross are more likely to cross the road and are a little less friendly.

Hear the peep
No time to sleep
Spring, here, has begun......poppy
heard the first the other day!
We planted two double rows of sugar snap peas.. Super Sugar Snap and Cascadian Sugar Snap.

Another beautiful day, but still too wet for planting, at least here. I have seen others busy in their gardens, I even saw someone mowing the grass! A bit premature I believe, but I think it was a business' landscape man so that figures.

It's greening up outside, it was 60 today and to be 20 tonight, good weather for the sap to run. I will bring in a nice bunch of pussy willows. I don't feel bad about pruning it a bit that way , now that it is about ten years old, it's big enough to enjoy some inside .If it were not so wet out I'd think about planting some sugar snap peas. It is Saint Patrick's day tomorrow and one can plant potatoes now. No spring peepers yet. Anxious to get outside and scratch around!

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