Dirt

Spent a few hours outside today.  It was colder and windier than we expected.  The leaves were hard to control.  My finger nails and finger tips are filthy.  It is fabulous!  I pulled off the carpet of leaves from under and around the grape arbour and under the mulberry tree.  Most of the front is uncovered.  Even with gloves on I had to pull out about a dozen cactus needles form my fingers.  I have an itchy feeling that I am allergic to them now.

The bulbs are coming up beautifully.  I am just dying to be gardening every sunny day.  The deer have eaten some of the tulip leaves behind the pool, but that's ok.  They get hungry.  However, it looks like they carpet bombed the backyard with poop again.  Yikes.

I follow this British gal on facebook.  She's a gardener.  She and all the other Brits are talking about their progress.  All I could contribute was that there was snow in the forecast not too long ago.  I think they pitied me in this zone 6 (yeah, micro climate up here on the hill).