DAFFODILS, GEFILTE FISH AND MORE

DAFFODILS BLOOMING AT LAST IN FOUNTAIN GARDEN PARK

Thursday,  7:30 AM.  40 degrees F, wind light, varying.  The sky is overcast but it has stopped raining, after we received about a half-inch last night.  The humidity is 96% and the barometer is still trending down, currently at 29.84".  I have a  landscape job scheduled this morning if it doesn't rain.
   Bulletin: Eric Larsen, son of our good friends Andy and Judy Larsen, has just reached the North Pole.  He and an associate made the dangerous, lengthy trip on foot, pulling all their gear and supplies on sleds. They had to swim leads of open water in the fragile, melting ice.   I need to find out how they are getting back.

   The daffodils are beginning to bloom all around Bayfield.  It will take a few more warm days for whole fields to turn yellow, but at least it's  a start.  Being so late does have an upside, as the Bayfield  daffodils should be at their peak a week from tomorrow, May 16, which is the Bayfield in Bloom kickoff at the Pavilion, complete with a live broadcast of the popular  Garden Talk radio show.

   Last Sunday I made an offhand comment in my daily post about Gefilte fish, a traditional Jewish dish very popular at Passover, and how our Bayfield whitefish were considered a prime ingredient.  

   By Monday morning  I had received an emailed advertisement from an online  Jewish dating service. Sorry, ladies, but I am an older married gent, and a goy besides.  Under other circumstances it might have been fun.