Sorry, KB, but I cannot help myself.

For those of you snowed in or iced out, would you feel warmer dreaming of
things to come--such as balmy spring breezes causing the daffodil heads to
nod hello?

I spent most of this afternoon indulging in ordering gardening supplies
(seeds, mostly and some slug killing stuff, too) in preparation for our
spring (which won't be here for awhile).  Hey, I like to dream, too!

Our snow is all in the foothills several miles away or on the mountains
(great to look at, but it means unless I want to go ski-ing (NOT!), I don't
have to worry about it.

For those of you who do, think how nice it is when fluffy and clean and how
lovely it will be when GONE!

Imagine crisp fresh raw peapods or sugar snap peas (I have to keep Keesha
OUT of the garden lest she eat them off the vine--a new trick she taught
herself this year--before I get to them).  Or how about steaming up some
fresh beets or setting the ones just the right size for pickling and later
enjoyment? A fresh radish anyone? I plant them between the beets so that
the row is marked early and the beets have more space to grow as I pull the
radishes.

Onions anyone? Am going to try them this year.  Summer and winter squash
perhaps? They are fun to watch grow, but my greatest anticipation is for
the sunflowers.  I ordered seeds fo a variety that grows to 12 feet in
height!  Won't that be something to see?

For those of you already in the heights of summer (sun and temps), imagine
how refreshing to rush outside and plop down in a huge snowdrift to cool
off!  On New Year's, I watched (while shivering) as somre really
testosterone-poisoned mid-teens rushed off a lake dock and cannonballed
into the water (then scandalized the girls by running around naked once
they were back in the house!)

So much for wanting what the other half is enjoying, I guess.  Some of us
are enjoying our gardens now, reaping the rewards of our previous hard
work.  Others of us in the planning stages of things yet to come.
Whatever, we still need to take time to marvel and enjoy the many ways in
which our young ones also grow (and we too) as we learn from our
observations and what we share with our LACTNET buddies.

Am off to the jetted tub to read more bulb catalogs (though I am NOT buying
any more! at least not this year!)  :-)

PS will my friends from the Pacific Northwest who must also gird their
loins against the onslaught of slugs, esp. the large lemon yellow ones that
are SO big and so voracious in appetite, please contact me re: the
appropriateness of trying to grow lettuce (for me to enjoy, not the slugs)?
Many thanks in advance.

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