Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Busy, busy, awfully busy....

I can not believe that it has been almost 4 months....4 months since I last wrote.  So much has happened. And now I am busy, busy, busy with end of the semester and end of the school year activities, grading, projects, ceremonies, and presentations.  Spring planting, weeding, and planning is in full swing.  While the weather is windy! Blustery! And the evenings are super chilly this week.  But the garlic is up, the onions planted, the hoop house full of young tomatoes and peppers, the sweet peas, snap peas, radishes, spinach, kale and beets are planted.  And I even transplanted the broccoli, red cabbage and Chinese cabbage this past weekend.  Hopefully they won't freeze in this late spring cold weather.

And tomorrow I'm off to work (2.5 hours away) while the bee packages come and the yellow raspberries, strawberry plants, and horse radish arrive.  In one week 600 new blueberry plants arrive as well. And I pick up the 50 meat chickens, 20 Americauna pullets, and 20 broad breasted white turkeys next Wednesday. In the meantime, I've been recovering from reconstructive surgery and my final infusion and weeding endless rows of blueberries, while preparing to plant a farm of flowers.  Such excitement! And the Farmers Market starts next week.

 The daffodils are blooming!


Today's Journey Joys: a hoop house that is some how holding on in these 45+ mph winds, raspberries poking their heads out, tulips growing, leaves bursting from buds, cats pushing against faces for love and affection, hot cinnamon tea.

Melancholy

I shouldn't write when I'm feeling like this.  Emotionally fragile and oscillating between tears, fears, and frustration.  Yet ...