From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   ...for a change.  the past week we've started to   
   see the normal change of the seasons come along.   
      
     4 tornadoes last Thursday to the SE of us,   
   nobody hurt that i know of but some damage, heavy   
   rain, and then the double rainbow.  now the snow   
   is mostly gone, still cold enough at night to   
   freeze.   
      
     none of the early flowers up yet, but perhaps   
   will see them within the next week or two.  with   
   the heavy snow/ice layer on the slopes around the   
   house i wasn't too willing to try to get out and   
   do much until it was safer to walk on.  so today   
   i could look at the strawberry patch to see if   
   any plants had made it through the winter and it   
   looks good or at least i see green leaves in   
   there.  i'll know better in a few weeks once we   
   get enough warmer days to get them to start   
   poking out more leaves.   
      
     otherwise it is life as usual here.  sorting   
   beans and trying to get the collection   
   consolidated and figuring out what i will try to   
   plant this year - what projects to work on...   
   i finally decided to get enough containers with   
   lids to make it much easier to sort so that i   
   don't have to buy them 50 at a time.  that was   
   slowing me down.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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