Happy Monday! I can’t believe it’s already the 20th of January…the first month of 2014 is flying by! My hubby and I managed to get out and soak up some sunshine on Friday afternoon at the Cross Conservation Area, just south of the city limits (you’ll remember me writing about previous walks in January of last year and again in September). We really regretted that we hadn’t brought our snowshoes, as the crusty deep snow was a bit of a slog with boots on. Last year when we went around this time, the informal pathways were more defined, with less accumulated snow. Oh well, the extra exercise was definitely good for me – I think I’m still packing around all that holiday baking! 😉
All this sun and the steadily increasing daylight hours are definitely putting me into a gardening frame of mind…I placed a couple of orders for various herb seeds last week, and all the important dates (meetings, bed clean-up, maintenance days) for the community garden are now inked onto my calendar. I just harvested some fenugreek microgreens (YUM!) and I’ll put up some basil this week – I haven’t grown as many MG this winter as I usually do and I miss them. It’s nearly time to start the ground cherries, too…maybe this is the year I will finally have success with them.
Enjoy your week! What projects (gardening or otherwise) do you have lined up for the next little while?
(If you want to read a bit about the history of the Cross Conservation Area, I’ve written a post about it here).
Flowery Prose. 