It's been nearly a month since I last blogged. The time has gone.

First it got hot and sunny. I spent time outside sipping coffee and looking for windless shelters in which to sip my coffee. Then I started working on the garden. We have to dig a new one and the grass is well established. At the same time I read a couple of books on organic and local eating. It has influenced me emphatically. Part of me doesn't want to change but I am drawn to it and eager to see what is around me. And what I can grow. I'm apprehensive about the canning and "putting up" part that will inevitably be a part of this. And winters here are long to wait for the next garden. But that is not yet.

Then it got cold again and we had company and before the company came we had to finish the 2nd bedroom. It is now nearly finished. Pieman is waiting for me to help paint. It was my idea. He wanted to watch a movie. He has been working fulltime in the theatre scene shop and it has gone much later than anticipated. So he didn't get to the bedroom any earlier. He got his one-week layoff notice today. Thankful we are that he had work there till May.

I planted out some seedlings today that apparently can tolerate the colder weather. They were nearly dead anyway. They had been moved away from the cat's sleeping place and thus got forgotten and dried out. Hope they survive. It felt good to be gardening. It's so....earthy. I think I sound like my father.

Time to paint. My boys are sword-playing in the kitchen. Where else?