I cut My fingers all the time. Fr some reason whetehr my knives are sharp or blunt I always manage to cut into ,y fingers when I am ooking in a hurry.
I thought I would leave that sentence be, so you can see what I do when I work in a hurry with a cut finger tip. Such a tiny cut too.
The lilacs and magnolias are budding but it is March. Only just. But March never the less. This is my least favourite month – anything can happen. And it is so long. It came in like a lion though.
Yesterday was windy and cloudy and cold and it will be about the same today I think with a high of 39f/3c. The forecast says we will start with a little sun though – sun is good. It is just below freezing as I write.
There are little bits of green appearing and as long as the weather does not dip into some awful sustained deep cold or we get a nasty snow fall, the spring might continue to spread.
I scrolled back to a few Marches this morning just so I could see what it was like other years and it looks like we have had some miserable freezing storms in March in the past. Cold.
Marlene commented yesterday that she had read that Chicago had just completed two months without snow cover (they need an inch of snow on the ground to be counted as snow cover). The lowest on record. She read right and thanks to chgjohn you can read that article here. We received more snow than Chicago this year.
Now that we have got this far let’s hope the trend carries us through to an early spring. My hay pile is getting low. As are my spirits I think but I don’t know why. 
And this garden is being prepared for planting next month. The seeds are sown and in the little glass house. More seeds and plants are on the way. Three wwoofers will be arriving in five weeks to plant the spring gardens and get summer on the way. This year I will be selling pork and herbs to the restaurant for the first time, so I have to spend some money to make money and this worries me. This time of year supplies of everything are low.
But the sun is out for a while and my coffee cup is empty, so I am going to get out there with my animals.
I hope you have a lovely day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
59 responses to “Finger Tip”
Correspondingly, we in the southern heminsphere are contemplating winter, relatuvely mild comparatively, but it will be my first for a long time in the ‘real world’… not in a warm office, or travelling up north in the tropics. After a very hot, record breaking summer, cooler weafher has appeal but I forsee similar to what you are experiencing now, as we emerge from it I will be looking for light & warmth… a natural human conditon especially for those of us who hale from milder climates.
If i were to describe our winter I think I would say dark and dreary. We will be so very grateful when the sun comes back out. Light and warmth – such a wonderful thing.. c
It’s been an unusually mild winter here in the mid-Atlantic USA too — almost no snow in the greater Philadelphia area and my roses are threatening to bud already! Very unnerving; makes me wonder what the summer will bring in terms of heat and humidity… As for cooking, I alternate between burning and cutting; not sure what that says about my abilities!!
I think that makes you are all rounder cook! c
Please get a mix-master and spare the digits why don’t you.
What is a mix master?
A type of food processor (one of those wonderful slicing, chopping, grinding machines : )
March is a strange month of gloriously sunny days with cold and then damp and windy ones (that’s what we’ve got here today). But I love to see the first signs of new life in the garden…our hydrangeas are pushing out some very pretty buds right now.
Those buds look so full of hope.
J > The thing about March is that anything can happen. That’s why I love The trouble is that much of what it does is what we’ve already had more than enough of, thank you very much!
My best friend in the US sent my husband a metal-mesh glove, because he constantly cuts himself when cooking. The last time he was doing something dodgy, I shouted out, ‘are you wearing your glove?’ ‘No, I’ll be grand…OW! Plaster, please…’
Ireland is so different as regarding seasons. Feb 1 was officially spring, and all my bulbs agree. I want to start seeds but have limited indoor space and of course a 9mo old kitten to contend with. We will see. Nothing but rain predicted for this weekend, anyway.
As a friend of mine used to say, “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get…”
Do take care (and slow down; )