Winter is back if only for today. I almost put the snow shovel away and I thought seriously about taking off the snow tires but I was reminded that it can snow in April here. Today I am reminded that it’s not summer yet.

a touch of spring

Spring shed cleaning

It has been a very nice March. The weather has made me think that that ground hog from Pennsylvania knew what he was talking about. Of course it is still March and the old saying in like a lamb out like a lion came from somewhere.

So far this month I have been spending a lot of time out of doors. I have been working on getting rid of a bunch of black berry bushes. Now that may seem like the wrong thing to do but there are so many bushes that I can’t pick the berries and they are spreading out even more. Cows kept them back in the day but since I don’t want cows on my property it has become my job. Hummmm goats are sounding better and better….. Any way the object this year is get as much done with the least amount of money. I want to use up some of the “good stuff” I have saved over the 2 years I have been here. As can be seen by the cleaning the shed photo I’ve collected a lot of junk. In the barn there is a lot of scrap wood and stuff that needs to be used or gotten rid of. I found enough log siding to repair a good deal of the front of the barn. From the road the barn is going to look like a big log cabin!! I have been putting in two more raised beds for gardening. I will put in two a year until I get the garden to where I want it. When the garden is on a steep slope putting in raised beds is a lot of work. I have to take the fill in by wheel barrow and bucket and it takes a lot of fill. One of the raised beds this year is 8x8, I had to go up 28 inches on the down hill slope to get it level. Now just think I have to fill in half of that space, that’s a lot of fill.

Now back to the March weather, things have cooled down. We have been getting day time highs in the upper 50’s, 60’s and a day or 2 in the 70’s and night time temps well above freezing, now we are having a reality check and we are back to normal which means OK day time temps but cold nights. Last night was cold so I decided to light the wood stove for the first time in 2 weeks. I put in the kindling, lit it and sat back to watch the fire take. After less than a minute out of the wood stove popped a bird…. that stopped that fire right quick!!!! Today I have to take my chimney down and make sure there is no nest in it. Cheese and Crackers more work!!!

Is it the end of times or is it that with nearly 7 billion souls on earth, the internet and 24 hour news things that have been happening since the beginning of time are making a bigger impact on us humans who have moved to the shore, built nuclear power plants and could not imagine living with out our modern devices?

The world has been in flux since it was formed and will continue to change and remold it self long after we humans are gone. That truth does not take away the pain and suffering the victims of natural and man made disasters experience but if we are lucky we will learn from these events and devise new ways to live with nature accepting that nature does not care that we are here. It is up to us humans to bend to nature and work with nature not against it; nature will not bow to us, nature is queen.

I told myself I was going to do better blogging but then I got lazy. Sigh………..

Things with me have been good and like always busy. I have been dividing my time between the loft, which is looking good!, the outside, the weather has been AWESOME !!!!! and of course making the donuts, I have to have a job so I can pay to live in paradise.

I am dreading go to work today because I know its going to be busy, people if you are sick don’t wait till you get real sick to see a doctor and try to see your doctor before you go to the ED. I don't want to go to work to day its looking like it is going to be nice and I would much rather be outside preparing for spring which is in just 16 more days from now!!!! Of course living in the mountains means warmer days but the nights will still be too cold for planting but that just makes me want it more.

Well more later, gota go make the donuts!!!