I've got Spring Fever!

How about you? Do you find yourself going outside for no better reason than to see how warm it is right now?

Do you notice how little snow is left to melt? I had trouble finding even a single clump of dark, dirty snow on Sunday driving to and from church. (I heard on the news this morning, however, that the southern parts of our province had snow falling this morning. Oh-my!)

Hopefully that will all be melted again before the day is done.

My garden is totally black dirt now, except for the area around the hollyhocks, where I set my bags of fall leaves to protect the plants so that they will come alive again from the roots.

If I have to sow hollyhock seeds again, because last year's roots died of frost, Then I'd have to wait until the second year to see any flowers. It has just seemed so much wiser to leave the bags of leaves around them until the snow is gone and the temperatures above 0 most of the time, and then the same plants will be up from the roots in no time and I'll enjoy plenty of their pink flowers along that fence.

I recently found some seeds for black satin hollyhocks that I had received from a friend in Scotland some years ago. So I want to find a place to grow those once more this year!

Ah, the delights of gardening. Others go to a gym or an exercise club to get their body in motion again. For me all the exercise I need comes free with the pleasure of making and tending my back 40 (acres?).

I should be starting some seedlings indoors this week, but because of the business projects I'm thinking/praying about, that will have to wait until next week.

P.S. if you needs seeds, you need to visit me and I'll give your bottles and packets of seeds of your choice. Or, you could write - then you have to wait for the mail to come through.

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Fruits to Bring Down Swelling

I've had a dark red/purple sore on my lower right leg for quite a long time. But with no doctor I wasn't sure how serious it might be. I showed it to my Chiropractor two weeks ago, and she sent me for Ultrasound. (We were beginning to wonder about a blood clot.)

I still have no doctor, but on Sunday at church a woman who is a pharmacist was able to go online and show me that the report was that it was not a blood clot. Yaah!

But I'd seen online that certain fruits could bring down swelling; I'd bought some after the Good Friday service and already see the swelling has come down wonderfully!

Normally I think of most fruits as rather expensive, but now I'm committed to eating more of these;

pineapple
kiwi
pomegranate (this did a specially good job!)
grapefruit
oranges
& berries

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