Life Happens

We have cold weather.  Really cold.  The trees from the Arbor Day
Foundation arrived but it is still too cold to plant them outside.  So
they are inside in temporary pots. Tomorrow is Easter and the last
day of March. Hopefully,  it will start warming up then.

Today we,  my partner, and my daughter and myself, rode down to
Chimney Rock.  It was gloriously beautiful.  Again we stopped at
the little antique/gift shop and I found an old butter dish in ruby red
glass. It did come home with me.

Then we headed to Asheville for the first annual festival at the South
Broad Co-op of Asheville.  This was very cool.  All ages and types
of people were there.  Halfway thorugh, this man dressed as a  "nun"
 (A man in a nun costume)  and this bicycle--whose seat was taller than
 I am--came through the crowd.  The bike was covered with all types
 and styles of glittering beads and sequins.  People knew him--but other
 than the costume, he was totally unrecognizable.  A very trippy fun-filled
 and fabulous musical day.  I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Birdstuff:  We have so many finches and warblers, chickadees, tanagers
and redbirds, robins, doves, nuthatches, and orioles--it is amazing!  I love
watching them.  My daughter found me a humming bird birdbath--it is
beautiful.  I have another one in bright red clear plastic to hang from
the plum tree--so the birds in general will have plenty of places to bathe.
All I am waiting for is the spring warmth.

Due to my many falls of late, my partner will not let me go outside alone.
So I am stuck waiting until I get better kneewise  to be able to prune the
few bushes I planned to do before blooming.  If the cold keeps up, then it will
go from cold to hot--neither temperature is good for me.  I may not get to
do it myself.

My partner is going to raise chickens and quail.  If not this year then the next.
And exotic mushrooms.  He is exited about it!

All for tonight.

Kate Thorn