Happy St. Patrick's Day to All
A slight diversion from "A Tale of Murder".
The last couple of days have been the most fantastic of spring days. The sky has been cloudless and with clear blue skies with temps around 60 degrees our yard was calling for help in getting cleaned up. One of the annual spring tasks seems to be to clean all the gravel and pieces of sod that the snow plow throws onto our grass on the berm of the road. I thought that last year was bad but this year set a new standard. Undoubtedly the large amount of snow increased the number of times the plow came through. I can't be critical of the job that they did and we always had a clear road to get out of the neighborhood. I do wish they wouldn't put their blade beyond the edge of the paved surface and leave the loose gravel and sod in place. So much about ranting about that.
So yesterday the whole day was spent shoveling and raking gravel and sod off of our yard and then hauling it away with the garden tractor and trailer. My next door neighbor Jack helped me some and then we worked on his. Getting out of bed this morning brought the discovery of aches and pains in places that I didn't know I had. Last evening Joan had started cleaning out leaves and debris from our flower beds and there were many piles around which I added more of and started cleaning those up plus cleaned out all the debris from last years vegetable garden.
To my surprise I came across the area where I had planted carrots and found some of the green carrot tops sticking out. I had left some in the rows on purpose and planned to dig some during the winter but I had forgotten all about it. I went ahead and dug them out and found them in great condition. Below is a photo of my harvest.
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In case you are wondering about the colors they are from some heritage seed that I bought that supposedly were grown as long ago as 1000 years. They are called carnival blend carrots and pretty neat I think. Upon eating some I got wondering if they were anything like ice wine made from grapes that were frozen increasing the sugar content as the carrots in my opinion seemed sweeter and had more flavor that they had last fall.
Life is Good.
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