KEEPING UP WITH THE JONSES

MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES WITH A FEW WISPY CLOUDS

 LAST FALL'S DEBRIS RAKED FROM THE PERENNIAL GARDEN...

...IT'S A START, ANYWAY

Sunday, 9:00 AM.  24 degrees F at the ferry dock, 21 on the back porch.  Wind NE, calm with light gusts.  The sky is mostly clear with a few wispy clouds.  The humidity is 65% and the barometer is steady at 30.45".  The maple sap ran pretty well yesterday, and should run very well today.
   On Friday afternoon I finally grabbed the rake by the handle (if not the bull by the horns) and got busy in the perennial garden.  I got it uncovered and pretty well raked up.  Now some things have to be cut back, some weeds pulled and new mulch put down.  Saturday was too unpleasantly cold to do garden work, and besides, I had to nurse a few aches and pains from Friday's exertions.  I may get a bit more done today but it is, after all, Sunday.
   I have always said that gardening is something you have to get used to all over again every spring, as one uses muscles and joints in ways one does not use them for almost any other activity. We will give it a go at keeping up with the couple of neighbors who have gotten out there ahead of us (and the season, I might add).
   Got to keep up with the Joneses