Housewife, 54

I am SO grateful that it is now officially, warm and SPRING.  I am all set to GO this year!  I was finally able to do the Master Gardener class, am now in Intern, and HOPE to get my full 60 hours of volunteer time in to become an Official MG this year.  So far I have 10.5.... I completed my Office Training this week.  The Office schedule will be out soon so I can see when I am assigned to work and how many hours I might get. We have other "volunteer opportunities" throughout the year, aside from the Office time.  I do think I will like answering questions about Gardening.  There are all kinds of resources for us to use, so it is just a matter of looking things up! Here is the first spring photo of our home, with the Veg garden at the far left, and the flower borders across the front and at the postbox.  I hope to make some changes to the borders this year, but not sure how much I can manage. As a great start, I have started seeds inside and actual...

April is supposed to be a month of showers and unsettled weather... well, we have had our first taste!  Last night we had all kinds of storm warnings: thunderstorms, hail, tornadoes - you name it, we had it!  The sirens began about 7pm and continued to go off every few minutes for a couple of hours.  We had the TV tuned to a local station and all regular programming was interrupted for weather reports.  A huge nasty tornado was reported heading for our area.  We watched out our deck windows, moved to the basement, came back upstairs, went down again.....  for the first hour or so the air was still but we could see lightening firing constantly high in the western sky and could hear the rumble of distant thunder - but never saw a funnel cloud.  Yes, it was dark, but with the lightening firing so frequently we could see the sky almost constantly. Our son was hours away, stuck in a hotel room on a trip for work, and he was watching the Weather Channel, s...