Every year I hear people around me talking about the strange Missouri weather; one day we're wearing shorts, the next day it's snowing. All of us mention it, but we actually expect it, because it almost always goes that way in March and April. We talk about our allergies. Some folks think changing weather causes colds, but that isn't true. The way you get a cold is from somebody else's germs. However, allergies feel like a cold sometimes.
Already this spring has given us a couple of 80° days, but this week has highs in the fifties, and possibly 29° Sunday night. If there's frost, I may not have any peaches this year, since the peach tree is in bloom now.
All the seeds I planted will be able to stand some cold, and they are doing well. I was really surprised to see the asparagus was coming up a few days ago, some as big around as my thumb! I'm not supposed to harvest them for two more years, but if I'm still alive next year and still have half my mind left, you can bet I'll be eating some anyway. I've never grown asparagus before.
All the radishes are up; about half of the spinach and pea seeds have germinated. Oh yes, and all the onion sets are up. In the past week I have carried many, many buckets of goat manure to the garden for fertilizer; I never imagined two tiny goats would give me so much poop!
The grass is green and growing from the few times we've had a little rain, and yesterday I tilled most of the rest of the garden to mix the fertilizer into the soil. Thanks to the tilling I've done, my fitbit tells me I made 12,538 steps, so there was no need for me to go for a walk yesterday.
The grandson had a couple of long dog leashes he wasn't using, the kind that lets dogs have plenty of space to run and yet they are tied up so they can't run away. They are now goat leashes. When both Arick and his wife are at work, their two dogs can be put up in their barn kennel and I can tie the goats out to eat grass. They were tied out yesterday for more than an hour while I was tilling, and were eating all that time.
That's it for today.
