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Snow! Snow! Snow! Then a thaw which means ice everywhere and then howling winds an more SNOW. Just a general PITA winter season, here!

But - we’ve had very easy winters the past 3 or 4, so we were due. I have FB postings from February 2017 and 2018 with no snow on the ground and the dogs lounging on the sunny front porch!

I’ve got my seeds ordered and most of them in hand already, though I don’t need to start anything until Early March...which is only 2 weeks away. Yay! :)

I ordered from Jung’s (of course) and Totally Tomatoes (also owned by Jung’s) and Botanical Interests and Burpee. I can easily get some of the basics for my porch pots, and herbs at my local Walmart. They sell Bonnie-Brand started veggie plants & herbs.

I’ll also make a trek to see my friend Steve at Cushman’s Greenhouse in Belmont, WI - I used to order all of my Poinsettia from him for my Jung Garden Center; he’s got an awesome spring set up - LOTS of Eye Candy, for sure. :)

Upcoming projects are adding 4 more raised growing beds (bringing my total to 18!) and then two beds on the south and west sides of the new greenhouse; one dedicated to Roses and one dedicated to Perennial Herbs. The greenhouse area had to be filled in, elevated and leveled, so that leaves those two sides with too-steep-to-mow areas and terraced beds there will solve that problem and give me more growing space.

Happy, Happy! :)

We found a buyer for some old barn wood that we have; it’s going to a gal in a local town who will use it as a wall feature/paneling in her new shop that is opening in March, so one more pile OUT of the barn that we’ll be tearing down in the future & rebuilding.

Other than that, everyone that I love (people & pets!) is healthy and happy, though Beau did lose his 89 year old Dad this past month. (Not unexpected.) Nice memorial service; he was a Korean War Vet, so we had the whole 21 Gun Salute and American Flag presentation ceremony. It was very moving.

We’ll be planting a memorial tree on The Family Farm come Spring. :)