Spring is Sprung

Calloo Callay! It's spring, and we know it because the Farmer's Markets start this week. The first Saturday Market will be next Saturday, April 17th and the first Wednesday Market will be next Wednesday, the 21st.

It's been a very strange winter. We read many stories about unprecedented snowfall in other parts of the country, but here we had a lot less precipitation than usual. We looked up at the not-white hills and mountains, and thought, It's gonna be a dryyy summer. The past week or so we've had a lot of rain, and snow has appeared on the higher places visible from the valley, but it doesn't seem like nearly enough. We'll see.

We're still struggling with the too little money and the too many bills, but now that John is training for the census, we can expect a temporary improvement at least. And in Kathe's work (she's a peon in the foreclosure industry), she thinks she sees signs of things getting better in general, although her personal income is down.

It will soon be time for one of our favorite holidays, Fuchsia Day, when we buy a fuchsia plant (or maybe several) for the front porch. And the daffodils we planted to replace the ones destroyed by the Big Street Project of a few years ago are up and looking very jaunty! Roll on spring!