Spring Fever

Regardless of the weather, spring fever has struck. I'm playing with my tomato plants - moving them in and out of the light, brushing them lightly and singing to them the songs of spring. And speaking of songs, there are multitudes of birds flying overhead, building nests and doing bird things outside my window. I love it. There's a few voices I don't recognize and would like to be able to catch a glimpse of who is calling from tree to tree. There was either a hawk or eagle in the tree in across the way that just sat in the bare bones branches watching - watching - watching....
Of course, it soon will be beautiful green and rich outside. The cottonwood tree out front will block some of the view from the river which goes up and down almost daily. The river is high today. The geese are plentiful.
My garden appeared magically one day from beneath the snow. I'm so excited to see if I can get out there and plant some radishes and lettuce this weekend. I'm missing the rain, but it's way to wet to dig in the dirt, well I have had my hands in the potting soil nearly every day this week.
It's been a while since I've been home to do some baking. I also have some sauerkraut from last fall and would love to make a roast and knephla with sauerkraut, yummmy. It is almost Easter. That means kuchen. It's a staple. I don't usually make it any other time of year, mostly because I would eat it ... and eat it and eat it. I love it right from the oven. Once I get my fix, it becomes day old and then I can gift the rest to my family.
Kuchen will help get rid of the rhubarb, apples and maybe peaches in the freezer. The peaches are more like sauce because they were very ripe, but I could still use them, sparingly... don't want to interrupt the custard... the best part of the kuchen.
It's another gray day and I just finished watching a video on surface design. Argh. I wish the Internet was around when I was still doing my art work, watching what today's artists are doing reinforces the fact that "there's nothing new under the sun."
Okay, so today's there's no sun....