Alex and I were outside yesterday doing our usual Gabey is a sleep thing, wandering aimlessly around the yard from activity to activity. Mostly sand-based activities since the sandbox has thawed out! But I couldn't help but notice that the chrysanthemums are budding up, the Stewartia is looking like it made it through Winter, the multiflora roses and poison ivy are taunting me from the hillside, and in general, Spring is getting ready to do its thing. Even the manure is trying to lure me in, just for a quick turn with the old digging fork.
Alex is also ready to do her thing, so her I am thinking about all the fabulous things I could be working on outside when in reality, I get to pick up some sticks while Alex builds and destroys a few sandcastles. Better than nothing, but I'm so close to doing actual garden work!!! Hopefully there'll be a trip for plants soon, because Alex does like to dig and help me plant things. Well, mostly look for worms, but whatever gets my hands dirty and her doing something vaguely garden-related...I may have to buy worms to seed in the garden so I can keep her close and interested while I do something more horticultural.
The neigh-bors are busy foraging in the somewhat thawed pasture for grass, but of course they ate it all in December and it's just now seeing the light of day again, so they're also resorting to coming over to the fence for exploratory sniffs. Just in case we happen to have carrots or apples in our hands. Which we don't. But they'll keep being "friendly" just in case, I'm sure.
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