Posted by on Mar 5, 2017 | 20 comments

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Wow! Are those what I think they are?  Little yellow head of baby jonquils popping up in mama’s garden when she least expected it?

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Yep, that’s what they are all right.  Does this mean that spring cannot be far behind (behind what?)

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And as for this little guy–yeah, the green sticky-outy thingy in the middle of the photo, that’s a baby fava bean just dying to be grown up and be shelled to be eaten raw with pecorino.  I know that has been mentioned before, but just in case you forgot one of life’s great appetizers.

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This little sweetie, a miracle in itself, is a baby Sweet Love growing from a branch of its dying mama, a loss that sent mama into crazed weasel mode.  But she took a branch and stuck it in root powder and voila!

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But enough of that–now we’re getting to the GOOD stuff. My own private stash of GRASS and

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yes, you guessed it: NIP, popping up from the roots of mama’s grown-from-seed kittynip.  Well, that’s about it for spring springing, because just as I finished this blog, raindrops were fallin’ on my head and they are making a serious racket on mama’s skylight.  What is this thing called Spring?

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Well, back to the old roundup…Wake me up when I start shedding my winter garb, okay?