I think it reached 80º today, and tomorrow is supposed to be 90º.  But if that’s too much, other days are 60s and 50s.

I was briefly carless, as I had to drop the car off for maintenance (Jess picked me up and delivered me to Avdi’s, then the reverse in the evening).  It didn’t really affect me, but it felt weird.

L and I were in the garden all day.  Now he’s obsessed with biting the hose spray!  The poor thing looked so soggy and stringy, but he was in water heaven, and it was warm enough to just bask dry, which he did on the back porch, newly cleaned by me for just such a purpose.

I had a brilliant idea!  I’ll plant mixed CA poppies in with the prickly pear!  A desert bed!  The asparagus next to it is sending up new spears, so it didn’t freeze to death after all.

The masses of bluebells are all budding out in pink and blue!  It’s so exciting.  I replaced the low border fencing along the edge of that woodsy area, to hopefully discourage the kids from letting the frisbee and dog smash into the flowers.  They couldn’t understand what the problem was!  I’m not sure they even notice flowers or understand plants coming up.

The peas and most of the cool-weather (?) veggies are starting to come up.  Every day I notice more flower shoots and seedlings appearing; I can’t even remember all the things I planted last year!  I’m happy to report the lilacs that made it are doing well.  Also the redbuds are partially recovering from the freeze and reblooming.

I prepped sections surrounding the veg garden for Y to plant his flower seedlings (which did turn out to be my flower seeds, but that’s a whole other story).

Another whole story is about the world threatening to nuke itself to death for no reason (sound familiar?), but that can hopefully hold off for another day.