Mr. Rogers would say; “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood”, and he would be exactly right. Tight now it is a sunny 70 degrees out side. I went out long enough to water a few plants and take an envelope to the mail box. The sun is “eye-squintable”. Okay, that’s not a word or phrase, but I make them up as I go. 

I fixed a pan of canned biscuits this morning, got out a jar of Kate’s cherry freezer jam and ate all ten of the biscuits myself. Just to be fair, I’ll let you know that Kate didn’t want any, she had yogurt and was satisfied. I know it still sounds rather “piggy”, but you and I both know that caned biscuits don’t get very big and it’s probably no different than having a stack of pancakes. Although I was tempted to make Belgian waffles for breakfast. 

Jobs today on my list are to fill the bird feeders, and go to the churches and run my bulletins for the week. That is generally an hour job, but it’s also a 30 minute drive up and a thirty minute ride back, so it does take chunk out of the day. Then late this afternoon, I hope to get out and do some work on my raised beds. The weeds are not bashful already this year. I don’t think I told you that Kate and I went out to the nursery and bought our tomato plants on Monday. We won’t put them in the ground just yet but last year we didn’t get any nice ones because they were gone before we gout out to but any. I think we bought 13 plants which is more than we need, but if one or two doesn’t make it, it’s not a loss of much. We do love a good slicing tomato. So often when you raise big tomatoes, they have a large core in the middle of them and that’s just a waste. Hopefully these will be good varieties. 

I went out and bought sunflower seed for my birds yesterday. I could not believe the price of sunflower seed; —- a forty pound big cost me $50.00. I used to pay $17.00 for the same size bag only a couple of years ago. I only bought one bag. Last year the price went up to around $35.00 and they blamed it on drought. But now it is up another $15.00. I truly think that these companies know they can get the money so they just keep raising the price. If you want it —- pay the price. I’m lucky that I can still afford to buy it, but there are a lot of senior citizens that can’t afford to buy it and for many, watching and feeding the birds may be their only real pleasure. Watching and feeding the birds was my late mother-in-laws one real joy, but there is no way that she could afford these prices today. It’s very sad. 

That’s it for today. I hope you get a chance to get out and breathe in some warm spring air. Don’t stay too long though; —- the tree pollen in the air will mess you up. 

God bless! Peace.