Daily Notes- sunday May 1st- Sunshine and Chilly- Need a Sweater.

Not mine.  But I love the root vegetable-ness of this image.  It makes me want to buy a beet or turnip with leaves  and paint. That might be what happens.  Looking at the root vegetable bins at the grocery in a new way. No cloth yesterday.  I started to wonder what I would do with the cloth (eventually)........I came up with "nothing" and sort of ran out of gas.......and interest.  But I could finish the borders.  I guess.

I carried the two French Watering Cans down to the fenced garden to water the seedlings already.  Only one type- the beets have emerged.  The carrots- not at all.  When I taught classes- I suggested "strongly" to the students that they pre-start carrot seeds.  On damp paper towels in plastic bags on top of the refrigerator. When they saw the first sign of emerging root hairs- then plant the seeds in the garden soil.  Even on top of the fridge, in the house, in plastic with damp paper- it took quite awhile.  Out there in the Garden- alone?  Might never happen. George came to check and seemed disappointed and left.

I am not ready to run hose down to the garden. Hardly anything has broken into leaf or bud.

We have a Solo Male Turkey visiting.  He meanders across the back lawn. And sometime around the house, across the lawn and then into the street and over to the wooded lot there. Last year, there were dozens of small turkey babies (chicks?) and their mothers.  Carpeting the lawn each day. Perhaps they aren't old enough yet???  Or some predator in the woods ate them. That song "Don't go into the woods alone" from my childhood...........

Another okay book yesterday- The Worst Best Man.  And the Chinese Food.  Today it's back to same old-same old.  Episode of Vera to watch.  There is a backlog of PBS in the TiVo recording file plus a few recorded movies.  I don't have the attention span for tv.  I drift...don't pay attention.  I have two strange choices in books on the table--not my usual.  I had best just get it over with and try them out.  Tomorrow is Library Day.   No reserve to pick up.  I will most likely fall back and choose books I read over and over.

They have made a movie of When The Crawdad's Sing.  I love the book.  I don't think I will love the movie.