The Mountain Thymes

 All the lined winter curtains are down, put through thirty minutes of dust removal on air fluff, folded and put out of sight until next fall when the cold temperatures chill the house again.  Lighter linen curtains in all the windows allow the spring feeling to seep into each room.  After a chilly night that dropped to 30 degrees by 7 am, today reached 65 with a dry breeze.  It was very comfortable for working outside. Each year as summer winds down I say next spring I will plant less until the March sunshine becomes warmer and extends daylight hours so I have more time to play outside.  Today I added mushroom compost to one of the garden beds where I started a few rows of romaine lettuce, onions, and beets.  After watering, to keep the  squirrels from digging in the fresh soil, I spread blood meal around.   Squirrels have been very energetic and destructive all winter.  They've climbed on window screens, frantically chase each other ar...

 It's snowing again.  I go to the window and the snowflakes are large coming from the north.  Come back a little later to wash some lunch pots and pans and snow showers are blowing up from the south.  This event will be done by five pm.  Temperatures for the next four nights show twenty to thirty-seven degrees then back to normal March in the mountain temperatures.  I checked my Journey North site for hummingbird movement and saw that a male was sighted at a feeder in Conyers, GA yesterday.  I will bring my feeders in from the garage to clean again after winter storage.  Probably put out two feeders sometime next week.  I place one at the kitchen window and one on the back porch where I can spot action from my recliner. I have pure alpaca wool ready to hang for nesting material.   It's taken all last week to update my new bank numbers since the compromise last Monday evening.  Very emotional and exhausting week.  This morn...