Green

 With all the indoor work I have been doing with the coif I feel I have missed part of spring.  It has been two days...  the leaves are opening and so many things are green!  My part of the stitching is done for this weekend, but Keziah will need help now.  Soon I will get to spend more time outside.  Getting outside was refreshing, other happy things for today:

• The coif is done and the outfit that Keziah adapted to be Elizabethan looks great!  Saturday there will be pictures.
• We have a guest for the next few days.  Being vaccinated means getting to spend more time with people.
• Gideon and Zed are putting together a computer.  What a wonderful father-son project and learning experience!

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  Apple blossom.

  
  

  

  Peach blossom (Marjorie).

  
  

  

  Cherry blossom (Tucker).

  
  

  

  Lilac.

  
  

  

  Norway Maple.
  

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Currently reading: The Backyard Homestead, by Carleen Madigan.

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Staghorn

 It was a chill, overcast day with occasional sprinkles.  Most of my day was spent outside working in the yard.  Plants are starting to turn green, daffodils are blooming, and forsythia are bright yellow.  I saw robins, blue jays, mockingbirds, a morning dove, a woodpecker, and sparrows throughout the day.  Other happy things for today:

• Last year I tripped over staghorn sumac stumps in the garden.  Today Zed and I removed many of these stumps and some of the attached roots.  The battle to defeat the unwanted plants in the garden has begun!  But seriously, I made room for the zucchini.  It will be a bit longer before I put the zucchini into the ground that I prepared today.

This is not a gopher problem but a 
staghorn sumac root problem.

These are roots that will no longer
 be a problem in the garden.

• The section next to the garden that we are hoping to make into a pathway with grape arbors is a little bit more cleaned up.  Progress!

Before: The sumac wants to take over.

After: I'm doing what I can to keep it
under control.

• I went for a short walk out back before cleaning up from gardening.  One time around the back of the property is only half a mile.  It was just what my body needed after all the bending in the garden.

• My second vaccination against the Covid 19 virus was administered late this afternoon.  So far, I just have a sore arm at the injection site.  

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Currently reading: The Backyard Homestead, by Carleen Madigan

Stay safe.