It's nearly here. Spring. Our garden is popping with little bits of color and more are nearly ready to blossom.
In order: Plum Flower, Cornelius Cherry Flower, Peach Bud, Plum Buds, Blueberries Buds, Cornelius Cherry Flowers
And our hens have snapped out of their winter moods and are producing fresh eggs again. We had three roosters and that's a problem when you only have seven hens. And we are finally down to one rooster.
This last week we had a heavy rain that turned out be a lot of snow covering the peaks again. Art took a time out from trimming trees and the vines to capture this while I was editing, Who Is Maggie.
My latest project, a mystery novel that is coming out March 1st.
Who Is Maggie
The blurb:
A series of bizarre events lands Rozanne Rayvern in the emergency room. Gage Auburn, her lifelong best friend, steps up and pays a debt to help Rozanne. A headline in the local paper the following day unravels one of the bizarre events connecting Rozanne to a century old cold case. And by nightfall they find themselves at the center of small town gossip and immersed in a search for a missing girl. But to everyone’s surprise it all circles back to another closed case.
Can they find the root of all the chaos before it ends an already broken Rozanne?
Available to order online here: https://books2read.com/u/b5XBB7
Art has built new raised beds inside the garden for our herbs and strawberries alone one side and built a new trellis for the vines that needed some additional support with materials we had onsite. Loving how the trellised grapes turned out last year. This year should be picture perfect with loads of shade for the hammocks.
Art also spent the last week cleaning up the trees. I heard the chainsaw...I came out and found half of one of the pear trees cut down. It was just the beginning, we spent the next two days chopping up the tree trimmings and stacking for mulch or the fireplace. It's quite an impressive stock pile of wood.
And we did attempt to start on the garden but after two passes our dom dom decided to lost the clutch. We've taken it back for servicing. After the rain passes again, we may start manually working the land like we have for the last few years.
We are also going to be starting some seedlings soon and will be planning the layout of what and where everything will go this year.
What are you planting this year?