Spring has sprung!

Ready or not, it seems that spring is here. The last few days have felt more like summer than spring. Maybe that is why it seems like we are a month or two behind on the home front - the weather doesn't match our experience of the date in past years. Here's what is popping out on Fruit Farm Lane.

Kali is enjoying feasting on red bud flowers again. We have offered them to Alida and she looks at us like, "Are you really wanting me to eat this?" How this gal will pick up anything off the floor and put it in her mouth but will not eat a little flower when offered? So she has yet to form an opinion about them but I couldn't stop smiling last evening when I ate a fresh spinach salad with red bud flowers.

The world around us just feels like it has been painted - Nora's garden has the first tulip blooming. Yesterday, Kali came in and said, "the table needs some flowers" and went out to pick a bouquet. Her Grandma Myers would be proud!

We all worked as quickly as our fingers would let us last night to get peas in the ground before dark - snow, sugar snap and hull peas are all tucked in and are now enjoying a good soaking rain this morning that should continue through most of the day.

And most notably, on the "popping out" front, we now have 30 baby chicks! Jason is proud (we'll see if I can get him to do a "guest post" sitting in the rocking chair beside them, where he can often be found)! An incubator full of 40 eggs, was down to 32 by hatch date (we took 8 out on our second candling as they had not progressed). So that means that just 2 eggs did not hatch. The last 7 worked extra hard to get out but did it with no help from us. They are pretty cute little buggers! Kali is loving holding them and Alida sure would like to get her hands on one of them also. She points at them, which is the sweetest thing!

Speaking of sweet things, she now says, "moo" for a cow sound. She scrunches up her little nose and puckers her lips. Take a look!