Several things on a somewhat rainy day

Morning temp: 40°F
Afternoon high: 51F
Tonight's projected low: 35F
Humidity: 49%
Moon: Waning, 60 %

It was cloudy all day, and cool, with sprinkles of rain now and again, and a light, occasional West wind at 5mph. For a very brief time we saw the afternoon sun. The weather is beginning to warm again.

1. Incidentally, M has informed me that we're not in Zone 8, but rather Zone 7b. My apologies. I'm fairly certain, though, that where we live is, in fact, in the Southeastern U.S. (ha ha).

2. I double-dug Garden Bed #9 this afternoon (one more to go!!), working-in a bag of composting leaves. I'm out of peat moss for the moment, so that will have to wait. Last Fall, I composted some 50+ bags of fallen leaves (watering them thoroughly and mixing in a shovel of composted manure). M and I both laughed at so many, thinking it far in excess of what we'd need. Actually, though, we could use another 20 bags or so. In addition to working them into Gardebn Beds, I've been adding them to my compost piles, usually ontop of 2" of kitchen scraps and an inch of topsoil and/or composted manure (and then a handful of straw). Presently, we're down to 10 bags of leaves, with 6 months before I'm gathering fallen leves. : (

3. I gave the Blueberry Bushes (BBs) and the plantlings inside on the A-Frame a drink of worm tea. They all look good, though we are concerned about the dearth of honey bees this Spring. The BBs require cross-pollenation - that's why we've planted several differents kinds of BBs together in our BB Grove (BBG). Honey bees do this cross-pollenating work especially well, but we've seen only a small number of them this Spring. Lots of carpenter bees, though. Perhaps there are ways to help replenish their numbers?

4. M and I continue to cut and eat Lettice, Mustard Greens and Kale for both lunch and dinner salads from the garden every day! : )

Looking to the future: M has decided that she wants chickens, and a goat. I'm uncertain of how good an ideas this is, but I'm open minded about anything M says she really wants... and I'd rather she want chickens than diamonds. We're also going to inherit a rather wayward cat (from M's dad) sometime in the next few months, and of course we both want a puppy as soon as possible. Finally, we're very seriously considering a move to up-state New York, a significant retreat from the every-encroaching suburbs, near the Finger Lakes. Yes, that's Zone 4, quite different from our long, languid zone 7b Summers.