March is Here!

Monday, March 1, 2021

Hello friends,

              Yes, March.  February seemed rather surreal.  Enduring the weather and waiting.  Now I turn around and it’s time to plant tomato seeds inside.  My seeds arrived Saturday, just in time.  Whoo hoo!  The birds are singing, the squirrels are chasing each other, and the daffodils are poking their little blades up.  It won’t be long now.

              The cows are spending more time searching for little green sprouts in the pasture.  I wish they would wait and let them grow a little first, but they LOVE the green grass.  The air is a bit smoky as some farmers start their annual pasture burn.  Hopefully they keep everything under control, but you know what they say.  It’s not a good burn unless you accidently burn something you shouldn’t have.  Yikes!  I have heard stories.  The fire department hates this time of year.  But the ranchers swear that removing all the annual residue stimulates the perennial grass growth, so they continue to burn.  We tried a section one year and we ended up melting some of the water line that delivers pond water to the paddocks.  No, we won’t be burning…..