Our gardening efforts have been hampered by cool trending to frosty temps. I did manage to rescue my thyme plants from the weeds and Creeping Charlie.

Michael had piled straw on top of them to help them survive the winter, but spring came, the straw was unpiled, and the weeds were not suppressed. I have been saving the snarly parts of my fleeces, as I've heard wool makes good mulch. I am willing to give it a whirl!

Updating the garden progress: the onions are up but the potatoes are not. The lettuce is showing, but the spinach is suffering from cut worms. We planted kale, carrots, peas and winter squash today. The volunteer squash on our compost heap succumbed to frost. It will frost again tonight. The ducks and chickens are feathering out and looking awkward.

So excited to be eating again.  Two weeks old in this photo. — So excited to be eating again. Two weeks old in this photo.

So much has happened in the past two weeks. We graduated a daughter from law school and I mostly wrote an appellate brief. We have been investigating windows for the addition. We've celebrated Irene's 84th birthday and cleaned the house. And the lilacs and trillium are blooming. Ahhh.