After hours of kids shrieking bloody murder and howling like wolves, and a hasty s’mores bonfire in the dark by M and friends with my help, it finally quieted down, so I could… lie awake!  Eventually I drifted off.  Until early morning, when N and K/S started bustling around to get to school for activities.  How do these people live like this?! 😫

This morning I awoke to a frosty scene in the garden.  Most of the nightshade veggies were drooping, but not dead.  Greens were still alive.  Amazingly, the elephant ears were floppily holding on.  The herbs are fine, and plants under makeshift cold frames are happy.  Some annual flowers are still blooming!  Some natives, like Jacob’s ladder, choose now to come back and look springlike!  I guess they know what they’re doing, even if I don’t.

I can tell I’ve adapted to the mercurial weather here, because it takes a lot to keep me inside.  Loucious and I were enjoying some frisbee in the frost!  I had fun finding photos, and envisioning how it will all fill in this spring and be MOBOT-like.

I’m also enjoying talking garden shop with a fellow gardener, Stacey.  We’re already comparing lists and discussing seed-sharing and transplants.  Invariably we resort to garden talk while the others are taking their time sorting themselves out.  We’ll probably be doing it all winter!  Gardeners never run out of food for thought and flower fantasies!