The sun is shining and the sky is blue! Glorious. It has been gloomy and stormy. Rain and wind yesterday. I like the rain but not the mud it creates. Chris has done a great job of making paths around the farm but everywhere else is mud. I am an Oregon girl so I do get rain. Rain has been my whole life. The wind is a bit overwhelming. The wind can destroy an easy in seconds. Rip it away. When we lived in town there was wind but we were sheltered. Here we are exposed. This is one of those things I hadn’t thought about in moving. I love living on ten acres but it is really open.
I do so much indoor desk computer work that the rain doesn’t bother me. It is Chris that needs dry and sunny. He works so hard outside all day. It makes his life so much easier.
I feel like all I have done is discuss the new year. Yeah yeah yeah. The new year is exciting. I never realized how January feels like a baby spring. I have been going through the seed and chick catalogs. I sorted through our leftover seeds too. It feels so good and exciting. I think the hope and promise of gardening is my favorite part. Picking out seeds, starting seeds, watching them grow, blooms, fruit and then eating. Dream come true.
I feel more ready for this summer than last. I had no idea what I was doing. I didn’t know what to do with a quarter acre of garden space. This year I will use those lessons and learn some new ones. It is going to be amazing!