Still spring

Friday's sunset
Thursday's sunset

The weather is holding well, more gardeners have emerged on the allotments to start digging.
I am glad that I use raised beds and never walk on them as my soil is ready and warming instead of claggy and still waiting.
Why make life hard for yourself and the plants?!
Although not freezing, the nights are still chilly, no outdoor sowings for a while yet.
The sun hides behind the mountain from us in the valley soon after 4pm. so it's off to walk home then.

Now I am waiting again-for a different person!
I am Freecycling, clearing out the clutter, making thinking and doing easier. Now I am waiting for someone to collect what I no longer need and they do need.

Spring

Today I have done three hours of gardening in my allotments- weeding and feeding the autumn sown onion sets and the strawberry beds. More have survived than I dared to hope!

Today on the Mountain, lambing began.

socks

Trying for size
turning the heel
This has been called "the ninja sock of doom"...do this, and the doorbell or phone will be bound to ring!
Sock #1 done, sock #2 started....

socks

socks

Baking day

The bread is getting better. As the starter gets older, it is improving every bake, and I can use less white and more wholemeal flour-and not end up with a 'brick'. All I do is keep back about 250 to 350 grammes of dough put it in a floured plastic lidded tub. Each time I make a new batch of dough, this gets added in before the first kneading. It is nothing new, it is similar to sourdough baking and apparently there are starters out there over 200 years old- well mature!
So far today I have made a hazelnut savoury, a Victoria sponge with my blueberry jam, sultana, cranberry and almond tea cake and a nice solid parkin for mountain walks.

It has been a fine but breezy day. Mountain Man has been on the mountain, checking the ponies that are up there. One he found and she is fine. Others he saw and they saw him coming-and went!
So they look well enough. If they wanted him they would soon be at the mountain gate waiting for him.

Still Spring

The weather is still mild today, but raise your eyes to the hills...
The lower fields are delineated by a shadow of snow along the hedges.
Above them the snow is only very gradually thinning.
I must resist the urge to sow outdoors, the soil has yet to warm.