Beltane Full Last Frost Moon
Taking the local this morning meant cutting down the second cedar trunk and limbing it. Mark worked very hard yesterday moving the downed and limbed trunks and branches in the front yard. He went to bed early and slept hard. Kate, too. She weeded and weeded yesterday. Her body mechanics have gotten better so her glutes tire instead of her back becoming painful.
This run of warm days will accelerate the growth in the garden. The first planting of lettuce is recognizable now and the spinach almost so. No potatoes coming through yet but they need a soil temperature of plus 50 degrees, so they’ve probably been tool cold. Just hope they haven’t rotted. The beans are up, the onions, carrots, beets and asparagus, too. A lot of yard clearing work, weeding, maintenance chores have gotten done and will get done over the next few weeks. Having Mark to help really moves things along.
Now I go see Leslie for our last visit, then a couple of Sierra club meetings in the evening. The legislature has begun to wind down, but there’s a distinct possibility that it is not all over. Not quite yet.