I’ve been working too much, couldn’t keep up with the blog or writing, or much else, but the end is in sight. They have hired a job share partner for me, and by the end of May I’ll be back to my part time status. I love my work, but I also love my off time as it is what feeds me emotionally, and is where I am most creatively.
In my search for organic meats, I had been patronizing a CSA type organization called Thundering Hooves. I loved their meat and the fact that the buying club I belong to is just up the street. In February they went out of business, another victim of our soft economic situation. I mourned deeply, and pictured myself confined to store bought meat. (I couldn’t quite get myself to go there!)
Then a new group took over their distribution, and bought up their inventory. I am ecstatic. I bought up a bunch of their breakfast sausage, my favorite, as well as some bacon and flat iron steak. I am SO grateful to have them in my life. Their web site is www.bluevalleymeats.com. Give them a look see.
I am diligently trying to work my way through the yard, cleaning and clearing weeds and all of winter’s debris. I am getting there! I have several large projects on my plate for this year: a black berry infested bed that I want to clear, the front boarder that is overgrown and very weedy which needs to be completely dug out and replanted, making a new vegetable bed in one back boarder, but I am pleased to have gotten so far by mid April.
And I learned that sometimes procrastination is a good thing. I had 3 bags of maple leaves my grandsons had gathered at my behest back in 2009. They needed shredding or composting, and I had never gotten to them. The other bags from that time got added to compost and worked in. When I took those 3 bags back, I discovered that they were already partially composted and were now a fine leaf mold, something my plants will really benefit form. I think this year I’ll do the some stock piling of leaves and let nature shred and compost them!
Today the weather is lovely, still cool, but sunny. I plan to be in the garden as long as my winter weary body allows. But first a trip to my local garden center for some compost – I don’t have quite enough to remake beds from my supply – and maybe a plant or two.
hope you all enjoy the sun too!
Lynnette
