Hey, This is so exciting!

Pat, this is just fabulous! What a great way for all of us to share our discoveries. HUGE thanks to you for setting this up and for offering to be our blog "guru". And thanks for having a note underway to the group regarding how they can access this blog and be involved.

A few minutes with Google this afternoon tells me that the robin who has been frenetically dive-bombing our windows this week is most likely a male looking urgently for a girlfriend. Urgently, I would emphasize. The strange things you'll see hanging outside of and taped onto our windows over the next few weeks will be our attempts to dissuade him and potentially all of his cousins. (We learned our lesson from poor Tippi Hedron.)

This will lift your spirits:

The Joys of Planting: Earth, Sun, and Peas (New York Times today)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/garden/12garden.html?emc=eta1

I don't suggest this next link to alarm you, but when Nicholas Kristoff speaks, I pay attention.

Our Pigs, Our Food, Our Health by Nicholas Kristoff
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/opinion/12kristof.html?em

I think I'll read the happy article about peas again.

If anyone's planning their garden already, here's a link to a homemade growing container that has been compared to an Earthbox.
http://www.josho.com/gardening.htm

Anyone seen any asparagus coming up yet?

Debby

Debby