Dreams of Vegetables to Come

Sorry - lots of pictures this week, so not quite the usually organized layout that I prefer.  But the good news, it is stressing me out more than you probably - but that is the fun of OCD (or as I prefer - CDO since the letters should so be in order).  Anyway I diverge, the weather is finally turning warm and with the spring rains we are starting to see some growth in our garden.  The peas are starting to climb their fence, the lettuces are getting settled in and, most importantly, the beans are starting to pop out of the ground.  It is always such fun at the start of the season to see your hard work result in green shoots.  Certainly, come late September I'm always ready for the garden to be done as I do tire of the weed pulling.  But as they say, "Hope springs eternal" every May as for now all I see is the potential of a large bounty to harvest later this year.

As Wisconsin begins to open up this week, we are continuing our home bound hibernation which means no gym visits for us for quite a while.  We are still enjoying our daily morning walks to make up for the lack of gym time and I thought it would be fun to share the social distance reminder signs that the UW has installed on several of their walkways and paths.  It is always good to know how many milk cartons (twelve) and pink, plastic flamingos (apparently four) you need to keep between you and strangers.  One scientific and cautionary note, we have not independently confirmed that twelve milk cartons, four plastic flamingos, three terrace chairs, or one Paul Bunyon rivalry axe actually add up to six feet.  So please use caution when laying out your milk cartons (or flamingos, etc.) when spacing yourself for your social interactions.

Jo is continuing her quarantine driven, culinary explorations with sourdough and this week's treat was home made, sourdough, hamburger buns.  They both looked the parted and tasted great when combined with a well grilled burger (thanks to our Christmas purchase of a food thermometer) and, of course, some good Wisconsin cheddar.  We are continuing our work on expanding our waistlines and enjoying the season by starting to make home made ice cream on a regular basis.