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Ostara


Happy Spring Equinox, my friends! Temps have been fairly mild in Louisville KY, but we are still having a few nights just below freezing. The past few nights didn’t affect our daffodils much, they bowed but we’re up and standing tall by the next day. I thought the freezes would zap the Japanese magnolias (but they were spared.) However, my overzealous move to get the basil out there was wishful thinking—it was brown mush this morning. It’s just basil, I can replant it.
But spring has sprung here! The hellebores and crocuses were blooming when Jordan and I went to Berea for my birthday.

Fairly soon the daffodils, tulips, and surprise lilies started sprouting from the earth. It took them a while to bloom, and by the time his daffodils started to bloom, mine started sprouting from under our shady pine trees and in our side yard. I had planted a few bulbs last spring that I thought may have died somehow, but they made it!!! They’re supposed to be planted in fall for spring blooms. Our hellebores started unfurling.
And I even spotted a lady beetle!

We ventured out into the backyard for yard work and the weeds are coming in slowly which is helping with cleaning things up. Easier to get a handle on my menace—snakeberries! The little fake strawberries that taste like water. But we found a new plant that we identified as dittany—a native wildflower mint (and another Harry Potter plant).

I did a bit of crafting with handspun wool and alpaca yarn in the garden.

I started the hardening-off process for our seed starts, repotted the herbs and am getting things more space so they can thrive better! I also put a few kitchen scraps into the garden to let them take root alongside the raspberry patch, which I noticed some leaves on!

Jordan’s yard started budding and blooming. I picked his spent jonquils, some Japanese magnolia petals for pickled magnolias, and forsythia flowers for forsythia syrup. His silver maple budded and is forming its seeds already!

But today the yard was at its peak at the equinox! Look at the beauty

The moon is a bit past half full today, the sun is setting at 7:56 pm nowadays. I have to say it again, folks, we live a beautiful life, we live a wonderful life, we are so lucky, we have a beautiful family, and I am so thankful.