April Fool

I am home sick today with COVID.   I thought perhaps that I would make it through this pandemic unscathed, but apparently not.  Luckily, I feel like I simply have a bad cold and am fairly hoarse, otherwise not feeling too poorly.  Mostly I'm just feeling a bit of a fool for not wearing a mask to L's County Chorus Concert on Friday evening.

Today is also the warmest day of the year so far - in the 70's, and the sky is a brilliant blue.  I have all of the windows open in the hopes of blowing the nasty germs far away.  I'm glad that I got the screens put back on the windows over the weekend so that I can have them all flung wide!

I did finally get the peas planted over the weekend as well - we are a few weeks behind the St Patty's Day deadline, but not too shabby!  The other plants should not be too far behind - they are currently hardening off in my new tiny greenhouse purchased at Tractor Supply Company a couple of weeks ago.  And just in time too...some of my squash plants have wee squashes on them already!

I made some other purchases at Tractor Supply Co. a couple of weeks ago as well:  10 little peeps.  I started out with 5 black sex-linked pullets, and 5 Rhode Island Red pullets, but one of the black ones died the following day.  I was able to replace it with a Buff Orpington pullet (this is the breed of our stupid rooster, NumNuts) - she is the little blond one toward the center.

Outside things are greening up and doing their thing as well.  The pear trees are blooming, and were swarming with bees over the weekend (if you enlarge the picture you can see the bees more clearly.)  The weeping cherries were also humming full of bees.

The swing set is also greening up.  JP and I bought stain for it last week, and it was so beautiful outside that I decided to start using it today.  You can see that I didn't get any higher that I could reach on a step ladder since I'm scared of heights and home alone.  Guess I'll do the high stuff later.

Unrelated to outside and green and peeps, but slightly like growing things, I made pasta over the weekend.  It's been a while, but it turned out delish.

Well, I'm coughing rather violently again, so I'm going to go back outside - that seemed to help earlier!  I hope you are all enjoying this beautiful season!