The gardening is beginning to show signs of growth. Except for the potatoes, onions and ginger, everything we planted this year went directly into the ground as seeds. Almost all the little seedlings have started to come up. We have carrots, onion, radishes, peas, lettuces, Swiss chard, spinach, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kohlrabi, turnips, and beets. No signs of cauliflower yet, though. We've been eating asparagus on a regular basis, and some of our rhubarb is almost ready to harvest.
We had a couple of nights of freezing temps last week (in late April?), but we covered everything and it all made it. The weather, and therefore the garden, are running a few weeks behind this year, and I'm wondering now if we'll have any room for our late spring plantings that I had thought would follow behind some of the early crops. Oh well, we might just have to build another raised bed or two.
Like everything else, our flowering trees are behind schedule. Our red bud, white bud and crab apple are just now starting to bloom. One of our young rhododendrons is in full splendor right now, though.
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I have almost completed my April craft project and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to finish by tomorrow afternoon. Look for it on Wednesday, along with the rest of my April goals update.
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For those who enjoy hearing about Bob the Basement Cat, he is doing well, but we've come to the conclusion that he is either partial or completely deaf. I'm not sure how we missed it, actually. We can often go in and out of the basement and do whatever we need to do, and if he's asleep or just looking away from us, he might never realize we're there. Also, when you speak or make other noises, his ears don't move toward the sound, not even a little. It might also explain why his meows are so very loud and might be the reason he craves touch so much.
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Our weekend schedules are filling up fast for spring/summer. A couple of biggish home improvement projects, a trip to the zoo on Mother's Day, a day of city-wide garage sales, and camping, have us booked up for most weekends until after Independence Day.
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19 more days until school is out for Kat, possibly for good! We have decided we will unschool her once this year is over. Learning about this lifestyle change is huge in our lives right now and is what I've been spending much of my time on recently. I promise, though, that this shift won't turn this into an unschooling blog. I'm not sure I'll blog about it much at all, but if I do, I'll spin it off to a separate blog much like I do with our RVing stories. Just thought I'd mention it, since it's been taking me away from the blog and Facebook page lately.
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I apologize again for not being around to visit your blogs and pages much lately, but I'm going to try to remedy that this week.
