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Mar
31
Will Spring ever come?
Filed Under Garden Desk
Tomorrow will be the 1st of April usually by this time the snow has be gone for a couple weeks and I am happily looking forward to planting Spinach and Snap Peas. I guess this year April Fool’s is on me and my gardening. Not going happen this year. I will be lucky to get them in before month’s end. 
The picture at the left are my strawberries. They are under about a foot of snow, still. I am hoping that this week will see some melt off and that I may be able to get to them this weekend. If not I am going in anyway and start to clear the snow off of them. I took this picture this evening around 6:00pm
Damn, I just looked out the window and it is snowing again. Probably won’t do much, if it was warmer it would just be a spring shower. The temperatures are supposed to up to the 50’s by the weekend.
I got another shocker this evening when I went out to collect eggs and feed my chickens. They were gone! Nothing but feathers! Sunday morning the boys were out chasing a fox. I suppose the fox had a tasty meal of my chickens. Very stupid of me not to do something to protect them when I knew that that fox was around. So now I have to figure out if I want to get more chicks and start over again. I am going to think about that for a while. I just might wait until later in the summer to do that or I may decide not too at all.
Other than that not much is going on around here, I am heading to California the end of April to visit Carole. By the time I get back we should be will into spring and I can get started back on the garden. I was thinking since I will be traveling and that I will get a late start that I could spend the season getting things in better shape for next year. I do love the gardening, and part of the fun is all the planning and building so I may invest more time in that this year. And if I decide to get more chickens I will have to find a way to protect a little better. Stuff to think about as the snow slowly melts.
diane..its good to hear from you..we`ve been missing your reports!! You need to move to Arizona..everything is in beautiful bloom!!!! Keep us posted….