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. . . See that black cat there? That’s effie. My sister has been here in Nova Scotia for a few days – hanging with the Beaucoups and Lucy 1.0 while our brother/Lucy’s daddy is in New York. This evening, she’ll be coming for her weekend stay at the Cat Farm. In anticipation of her…

. . . It’s happening. We’re farmers. We’ve got real, live pea pods in the garden, and a few rows of strawberries to munch on. The carrots are growing, and the beets should soon be ready to pull. 2.0 spent the entire weekend out playing in the yard. He mulched every bed, mowed the lawn,…

. . . This afternoon, when I wandered out to the veggie patch, I was greeted by some very cheery blooms on the bush peas. Know what that means, people? I’m going to have to start liking peas. .

. . . Did you think I forgot? It’s Monday! I know you’ve been checking for updates all day. Whelp, there’s not much to report. We’ve been eating radishes, and they are sublime. We even had enough to share with Bill Beaucoup – a diehard radish fan. We’ve had a couple of sunny days, so…

Today I’ve been doing. Doing and doing. Doing loads of things. It’s sunny, and I’ve got all the windows open. There is laundry drying on the line, and the kitties are laying in sunny patches. I went for a walk in the park. I believed the doctor when she said that I don’t look 39. I…

. . . It’s a big day at the Cat Farm: I don’t have to go to work, I don’t have to do anything work related, I harvested our first crop of veggies. Radishes. Sweet little radishes. It’s so exciting! .

. . . I’m alive. Despite the best efforts of about 300 dancers to induce a major stroke, I’m alive. I’ve survived another day of year-end shows. My deltoids are so sore from lugging costumes four blocks to the theatre yesterday, that I can barely lift my arms today. And all of that squatting to…

. . . Guess what? Nope. Guess again. Nope. Okay, I’ll tell you – we had sun this weekend! Almost two days worth. But there was a trade off. Yesterday, as we planted our containers (on a day which promised sun but instead delivered dark clouds), we could see our breath on the air. Yup.…

. . . How anything can be growing in our wee veggie patch, I’m not sure. It continues to rain. We haven’t seen blue skies in weeks, in fact, almost a month. But somehow, the radishes are coming up. As of the 12th, we had already seen 100 mm of rain in May – that’s…

Big news. After 18 straight days of rain, we finally saw the sun on Friday, and we saw glimpses again over the course of the weekend. It was short-lived, and it is pouring again today. It’s hard to believe that there can be more water up there… Rain is forecast for all of this week,…