The last of the snow has melted from my garden. Still too wet to clean the lawn and nothing yet on my winter sown pots. We do have rain today forcasted for the Ottawa area so that should help move things along. Indoors at work I have a ton of babies, my tomato plants are a good 6-8" after being repotted from their sprouting stage. I looked at my garden catalogues with the plants - perennial geraniums about $7.00 with tax....I have 5 so far growing from seeds indoors. Thank heavens for seeds and trading/sharing with fellow gardeners. It is so expensive to buy plants. Saved the seeds from my petunias last year and they are doing nicely on the windowsill as well, pansies, chives, gaillardia, lupins. I will try to grow anything and everything. Today I will have to get some more dirt at lunch and hit a few more window spaces in the office. They have been pretty good about my seedlings and very interested. The only smart thing I did last fall was turn my garden beds, clean them up and cover them with landscape fabric so they will not be full of weeds this spring for my new babies. I will be incorporating bags of leaves I saved and some fresh compost. We have also decided to do a wooden deck as our patio stones have more than seen better days. I am saving the bricks for the garden, going to recycle the fence that is being replaced into wooden planters with benches and paint them bright colours. I will line the planters with pond liners so the wood doesn't rot out. Also have morning glories starting at work too. I may just keep them at work and trail them around the windows. That has been my spring so far. Dragged out the plastic table and chairs on Sunday. Digging out my garden shoes and starting to look for shorts!

Hope that, in spite of all odds, especially related to nunmbers, that you had a wonderful day. And hope that you are full of energy and pizzazz when you get to be twice that (not "old" - how about) age! Remembering with a warm heart our get togethers. ole joyfuelled ... at over double that age - and going strongly!

Hi Dances (in an indoor garden, what with the snow, the cold, the wind and all - my landlord, who's quite acclimatized to the cold, was complaining about it this morning) I hope that you have a perfectly wonderful birthday .. one that you can remember with tankfulness for years (that was supposed to be "thankfulness!). Your party was the first connection that I had face-to-face with other KTers - left a great taste in my mouth, it did. ole joyful

Thank you everybody! The day started off pretty suck-ish, but then we had a nice dinner out with family and it turned out okay. We went to a small local Chinese restaurant, and they did very well with our large group of 20 people. There isn't anything better than a pot of oolong tea and wonton soup on a rainy dreary day! Dances.