It seems that I often come out of this period when the weather gets a bit nicer. It also helps that I’m just getting over a cold.

One of the few things I’ve been pretty good about is trying to spend a few hours in the garden per week, simply trying to stay on top of the weeds and cleaning things up a little bit at a time. I’m reading everything I can but still have a lot to learn.

The garlic seems to be doing really well. Shanti and I have been starting seeds inside, with mixed results. We’ve planted a few of the seedlings.

The lawn is starting to fill in again. There are several spots around the house where the grass completely died during the winter. I actually sort of like the look of the moss that replaced it, but the weeds started taking over in the late winter, so I pulled them and spread grass seed.

One project for this summer is to replace the rotting wood the serves as borders for the 5 beds in our yard. I’m not much of a handyman, but it should be easy enough. I also need to clean up the area around the beds and some of the lawn borders.