Windy weather

With time to garden, I want so much to do the spring clean-up before our guests arrive on Saturday, but the past three days have been too windy - as fast as I rake the leaves blow back into the beds. I had no idea that so many leaves covered the gardens - but they do help insulate the plants. I did make headway at the entry door, so not all is lost. Now that I have had a taste of getting my fingers dirty in the very cold soil, I want to be outside every day that I can. I love to garden. Our new stove, refrigerator and microwave oven are here - only the fridge has been installed. The rest tonight. Maybe I can use the excuse of no cooking access to get a night out!!! Still have the toaster oven, so I think we will just hunker down here. Learned something new from a guest who was using the micro - it had lost power-took 12 minutes to cook a potato!! So I went on-line, and sure enough, they do lose power and mine was from 1984. The new one should be a lot better and more efficient. I can't wait to get it hooked up. That is all for now. Will start washing windows instead of gardening and listen to my books on CD . I have an i-Pod that I take with me to the gym, the garden and while washing windows.

tiny signs of spring

The snow is finally gone and we can see the tulips and daffodils pushng up through the soil. There are signs of spring everywhere. The birds are chirping loudly and eating the seed as fast as we can get it into the feeders.

We have the Model A Woody Wagon ready to give our guests from Geneva, Switzerland a ride - the little 6 year old can hardly wait. Our B&B is so close to Saratoga Springs that the guests have taken the little boy to the Children's Museum there. It is a wonderful place for kids of all ages.

Tonight we are going to the opening of an art exhibit in nearby Schuylerville and last night we saw "Our Town" in the other direction in Cambridge. There is so much to do in this area. We are very happy here.

Time to run into Greenwich.

It is not over yet!!

As we sit here watching the snow coming down hard, having been kept awake in the night by "loud" snow, as my niece calls it, we wonder if it will ever end?

Although it is beautiful again, the new fluffy stuff covering the old brown, hard as a rock stuff, we are tired of shoveling and hiring the plow. This year we have been plowed more than the last 5 years combined. Even our Jeep did not want to go through some of the drifts across the driveway.

We had a day, yesterday, when we actually saw grass - I wonder if the snowdrops came up, but that part of the garden is still covered in piles of snow. We think the bulbs love being kept warm all winter, so there is a very positive side to all this.

More later- going to help Richard shovel the walkway to our Saratoga Bed and Breakfast.