AncienTrails

Spring           Waning Moon of Winds

Last night the smell of fresh earth blew in to our bedroom on a cool breeze.  This scent has the power to quicken my pulse.  It means the long frozen period of winter has broken enough to moisten at least the top inch or so of soil.  Soon the now quiet movements of bulbs and corms and rhizomes will increase, green shoots will begin to press their way up, up, up.

Today the 2009 garden has come closer to emergence.  And not only outside.   The visit I made yesterday to Interior Gardens gave me enough material to place the seedling that are ready into soil, into pots that can go straight in the bed.  All of the onions, tiny seedlings though they are can go outside as soon as I can work the soil.  Most of what I planted has to wait longer, some a month, some until all danger of frost is past.  On April 15th yet more seeds go under the lights.

The germination rate of my seeds is very high, for most it is 100%.  After I get done today, I’ll know which seeds have not done as well.

I volunteered to help with e-mail alerts for the Sierra Club, so I also have to review the material necessary to step into that process.  It means developing some sample e-mail alerts, setting up the e-mail and getting it ready to send.  The latter part is the most mysterious to me.  Apparently, the national Sierra Club has strict rules about such things and the templates used can be difficult to navigate.

Then, of course, there is that new Gateway desktop I bought.  Getting it ready to use means I have to rearrange my desktop, think through several different things about how to organize data, what goes on which computer, setting up backup software, creating rescue disks.  All of this is good stuff, stuff that energizes me.