Spring Arrives Early

My goodness, it seems like time to make a blog post arrives faster every week. Perhaps it's because I'm busy with other things now that we've had a taste of spring. I'm thinking about the garden, but today it is 53 with wind. Two nights this week it is to be in the 30's. That hasn't stopped me from planting two tubs with radish and lettuce which is up and thriving now. My tomato and pepper plants are doing good. I started them 6 weeks ago and have them on the front porch getting toughened in. Also, my large geraniums are out on the porch. I can always bring all that in for the night if I have to.

In the last two weeks we've been in the barn as much as the house. We only have four sheep and goats out of 14 left to deliver. This has been the best of times for newborn animals to come into the world. They do so much better when they aren't hit by a blast of cold air.

Also, this last week, I was busy returning emails. I graduated in the last class at Keystone High School before the small towns around here consolidated and became Benton Community. There were 32 in our class and a week ago we lost the first classmate. We were all sad and feeling the lost of one of the nicest members of our class. He was a home town boy who stayed put and made a difference in his community. So there was visitation, services and a lunch to attend toward the end of this last week. A chance for some of the classmates to connect and catch up. Two more years yet until the next reunion. This has always been a tight knit group that keeps in touch and attendance has been high every five years. I know our thoughts at the next reunion will be about the classmate we lost.

Winter has a way of tightening up the joints. I've been down on my hands and knees lately in lambing pens helping newborns. Then down on my hands and knees cleaning flower beds that have flowers coming through dried leaves and grass. This morning, I can tell I used joints and muscles that need more exercise.

I released my latest Amish book recently. The fourth in the Nurse Hal series. - As her name is so is Redbird available at Amazon, Smashwords and www.bookstorebyfay.weebly.com. For paperbacks. Kindle, nook and Smashwords for ebooks.

I will always remember a teacher saying to me that I needed to write about what I know. Living in the country and working with animals is something I know. The last chapter of As Her Name Is So Is Redbird has a look at what it's like to work with sheep lambing and Nurse Hal's learning experience with that. One thing about living my whole life in the country around animals is I have experiences something like Amish farm life to relate to that I can share in my books.

Well, that's it for this week. More running around scheduled for this week, and I will tell everyone about that in my next post.