Oops, I almost forgot to write about March in my flurry of holiday posting. March on our little homestead was much better than February, and spring has definitely been in the air. Let's see what's been going on. Seedlings! After sorting out the greenhouse in February, I finally sowed some seeds in March, and our first seedlings emerged quickly afterwards. They haven't all survived the frosts... but that's a story for April's homestead post. Still, March in the garden was a time of new life and growth, most exciting. Mixed chicken fortunes March was a month of trips to the vets. First Bessie, who had her hormonal implant replaced, and who gained a new lease of life. And then poor old Chippy, who sadly didn't make it. The remaining five chickens stayed shut in under the avian flu housing order right through March. Visitors! The end of March saw the lifting of some covid restrictions, and we've been allowed to have up to six people in our garden. Not that we've had that many, but it was SO nice to start seeing people again. Sadly, our garden shelter blew down at the start of March, but as the weather was so glorious by the end of the month, it didn't matter. The clocks changed, of course, and there was a definite lightening of spirits around here. It's been so nice to see things grow, and to see other people. I made some more progress on the kitchen ceiling (although it seems I didn't take any pictures of that).
So what will April bring? Well, we're already a third of the way through, so I know that so far it's brought more visitors, and more snow. I'll sow the rest of my seeds, and hopefully get that ceiling as finished as it's going to be before the builders arrive. I'm hoping there will be a bit of wall-building progress, and perhaps even scything too. We'll see.
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