A Good Day to Plant Tomatoes and Make Pie

32 this morning, bright and sunny. 55 as I write this. A beautiful day.

Melting, melting--about halfway gone in this photo.

The weekend snow is quickly leaving us, and we are seeing a lot of green in the grass now. Yesterday was cold as could be almost all day, so it seemed like a good day to plant tomatoes. Seeds that is, in pots, in the house.

So all the tomatoes and peppers are planted in their little pots, with plastic baggies over them to make mini-greenhouses. Now the wait begins for the seedlings to emerge. I planted a few seeds from our yellow apple tree that I'd saved, along with some Gala apple seeds from an apple we had here at the house. Will they come up? Who knows, but it took little time or effort to stick them into pots, so we shall see. They likely won't be true to the parent trees either, but even old crabapples are gorgeous when in bloom, and could make good jelly if nothing else.

What else have we been doing? Well, today is 3.14--National Pie Day, and for once I actually made a pie on this date. This one is raspberry peach. I had raspberries that needed to be used, and a jar of peaches on hand so in they went. I must say, it's delicious.

I've been back to the paints again, this time working on a china cabinet. I intended it to be white, but when I painted it with that color I hated it, so had a rethink and now it's the prettiest green. I still have plenty of work ahead of me on this one, but at least it's started. 

I worked hard on eBay yesterday since it was such a cold, snowy day, and got quite a few listings up. I also sorted out my seed box and tossed empty packets and just had a look to see what we had in there. Soon I'll be stopping at the feed store to get onion sets and a few other seeds because it won't be long before we can plant.

Larry has been working on making a rolling tool cart for the antique mall so we can bring in garden tools--like shovels, rakes, etc--to be displayed outside, then wheeled back inside at night. It might not be pretty, but I think it will work for what we need. He's also repairing another high-wheel garden cultivator, putting a new top on a desk, pruning the grapevines, and just generally being his usual busy self. 

Of course we had to turn the clocks ahead Saturday night, a ritual that just always throws me out of whack. I so wish they'd just leave the clocks alone, but apparently I'm in the minority on that.

We have several flowers in bloom that actually survived the snow and cold--and my little lettuce and radish seedlings look just fine. I took these photos a few days back, but these plants are still standing, and still blooming. Crocus, Pansy, and Lenten Roses.

I think that's all the news that isn't, to quote Garrison Keillor. I sure miss his radio show, Prairie Home Companion. Did you ever listen to it? All those characters were so funny--Dusty and Lefty, Guy Noir, Dwayne, etc. And the Church of Perpetual Responsibility, mustn't forget that, or the Powder Milk Biscuits "commercials". It was radio entertainment at its best, I think, with the stories and the music combining to make a hour of just great listening. Maybe one day someone will come up with something similar, or even better, revive the old show. What a treat that would be.

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