Warm Weeks

After two weeks of warm, sunny weather our trees and flowers are budded and blooming. It's been a kickstarter spring. I've enjoyed coffee on the porch day after day in just shirtsleeves when normally these early spring mornings are pretty darn chilly. The temperature has reached 80 many days and everyone has broken out their shorts.

Even more remarkable than the warmth is the string of 15 days without rain, or heck, even clouds. That's just not Vermont.

Rather than look a gift warm spell in the mouth, we have put it to good use, getting the vegetable garden tilled and even some of the hardier plants in the ground. In between sawhorses we'll use to cover them when the frost returns, of course. We're optimists, not fools.