Once again the kitchen and dining room areas look like a botanical garden.

Spinach wants to get planted in the garden......................

 

The dogwood winter dropped about an inch of snow with wild winds last night.  For days my hips and joints have been so painful that I knew it was approaching before the weather station showed the rapid barometric pressure changes.  Today's high was 27 degrees and will drop to 12 tonight.  Just as if someone flipped a switched, all the pain is gone today.  We have one more cold spell in April which is the blackberry winter to sweeten the berries.  This coming week our temperatures will be in the 60's and 70's. 

We made a deliciously warming soup for our lunch today.  Hannah's Late Winter Soup 

Made with about six vegetables, beef broth, lentils and spices that are warming and easy to digest.

Tomorrow is predicted to be sunny with a high of 53.  I'm ready.  And the plants will be back on the porch again.

Cliff is good.  He cleaned off the porch this morning so the afternoon sun could melt the under-crust and the crazy wild winds could dry everything.  His afternoon naps revitalize him and he perks up.