Welcome, March!

March 1st—freezing rain and snow for four consecutive days! And then, today, as if to celebrating the beginning of the first weekend of March, the sun came out melting snows and bringing out all the birds. How happy the earth felt, and my heart too! Everything looked so vibrant and flawless and the brilliance brought in by this new March sun made every thing feel and look gloriously springy!

I went to the moody mud-covered garden and my feet sunk under soft wet grasses and mud, and I noticed that the first tulips have already started showing up happy little heads. Some of them, in the right places, some in the wrong. And I had to just ponder and asked myself how could I had been so reckless or distracted as to not noticed when I was planting, that I was planting in the wrong place? Now, these tulips will have to be pulled out, because they were planted in that special place I’ve been saving for my new roses.  Argh!

Reuben and Antonio came by today to work on the new fence and gate.  That’s the space where our new trailer is going to be kept.  

How excited I was to have this project finally started!

We are adding a new fence and gate at the front and, to add more space for the trailer, we are also moving that part of the fence which separates this space from the garden a few feet down.  Which means the garden will be smaller now, and I will also be losing the little pond I created last spring... sad!

But what a disappointment this project turned out to be when it was all done, because the fence that now will be dividing the trailer side of the backyard from the garden is everything but straight.  Period.  From whatever angle you see it, it isn’t straight.