Wahoo, friends! I know it’s still February and lots can happen between now and our last average frost date, which is Tax Day, but the farm is showing so many signs of springtime. I can barely stand myself. So this week’s Friday 5 at the Farm is just a little springtime celebration. Perhaps a smidgen early, but still.
- Temperatures are soaring! Our house heater has been turned off most days, windows open. Fresh air is such a mood lifter.
- The rose vines and thornless blackberry vines are slowly trading their winter browns for an easy, mild, slightly naughty shade of green.
- The horses are beginning to shed. I mean, it could be from being brushed… but still.
- The buds on my saucer magnolia are fattening up and getting fuzzier every day. Several are just threatening to crack apart, too, like little fortune-telling pistachios. This is exciting. And it makes me want to wear bright pink lipstick.
- The hens are not only laying eggs again, which is lovely in and of itself; they are also starting to venture out of the warm coop to lay them in weird little places out in the sun. And they are sitting on eggs with fierce devotion, too, suggesting a fresh batch of chicks soon to arrive. If I would only stop eating the eggs.
So happy weekend, friends! Happy springtime vigil. Happy everything. Soak it up and show your appreciation for this beautiful, poetic, nourishing life. Every single Diem is worth Carpe-ing.
“You can cut all the flowers but
You cannot keep Spring from coming.”
~Pablo Neruda
XOXOXOXO