finally

Isn't my soil lovely? Will it grow anything? Too soon to tell. We mowed the lawn for the first time yesterday, it was quite the jungle, since it rains a little every day it never seems to be a good day to pull out the push mower. But yesterday was finally the day, I mowed about a third and then conned J. into finishing for me. Today I finally broke down and ordered a hedge trimmer, electric, cordless. After 2 years, I just don't think I'm doing the hedge any favors with the hand trimming. It looks sad and awful, I feel sad about it. Time to try something else. Maybe my trimmers aren't sharp enough or maybe I'm doing it wrong, I don't know, but I give up. I have plenty of other stuff to spend the extra time on, still have to get the apple tree in shape for spring, and somehow figure out how to get the stump out of the garden, and build my new raised beds, plenty to do, plenty to do. Both of my midwives have chickens, I learned today. Do all midwives in this burgh have chickens?





Finally, finally, finally. It wasn't like it was even such a bad winter, or even that it is so incredibly spring like now, it just feels like something has changed.