Spring Carols

Its the most wonderful time of the year

Just planting tomatoes and dreaming of potatoes

Fills me with cheer,

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

There are daffodils popping and pansies show stopping

And seeds to be planted in rows

There are fat pink cheeked babies and bluebirds a mating

And perhaps the end of the snow

Its the most wonderful time of the year

Just planting tomatoes and dreaming of potatoes

Fills me with cheer,

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

There a chickens all laying and bunnies a playing

And little ones swinging so high

The forsythia blooming, soon kites will zooming

Not a cloud in this spring blue sky

Again we are having some unseasonably warm weather and I loved being out planting pansies all evening. Pansies to me are the most cheerful flower. I can't help but smile when I look at them.

I requested of the Handy Man an herb table for the side porch. I've had a table there for years. Though it had long been peeling it's finish, I never tired of it and just threw another seasonal plastic tablecloth over it. It was a multipurpose planting table all these years, but I so remember when it was new. All the babies had arrived by that summer, and making an outdoor furniture purchase was a big deal. It was so sparkly white and I loved the yellow striped umbrella that came with it. At the time we lived in town and all of our neighbors were elderly and most lived alone. I loved them so and the children and I would always take them some homemade goodies. I was so proud to have them over to sit at my new table and share some cookies and lemonade. No, that table suited me fine.

Alas, when Handy Man finished the herb table, there was no way I wasn't going to have it out in front, so I attempted to move my old faithful. It gave up the fight and fell apart, deciding it had moved for the last time. I think it was 28 years old. Wow, that's a lot of rain and winters and hot suns to weather.

I'll miss that old table, but I love, love, love my new herb stand.

It is currently planted with spinach and lettuces. When those bolt, the herbs will go in.

It feels like spring has sprung!