Such progress you're making! Well done, everyone!

We're decluttering outside this week, with such good weather at hand.

Gardens cleaned, brush cut and hauled to the compost piles, fruit tree pruning, scion cutting for grafting in a few days... I emptied many pots of good soil (from overwintered plants that gave in to the ice this winter) into various garden beds.

We'll be hauling and spreading compost for a while, too. The aim is to get the 30 x 100 veggie garden covered with several inches of compost before tilling it in. I need to start planting in the next week. We're expecting this next year to be a hard one, with food costs rising fast. We'll need to raise most of our food, and neighbors will likely need extra help as well.

TL cleaned out the birdhouses too, just in time for the swallows' and bluebirds' spring arrival. I painted the old metal loveseat swing out on the lawn. Greenhouse frames are assembled. Moving the greenhouse bench parts out from the veggie garden and out back to the greenhouses this morning.

When the rain returns this weekend I'll return to the decluttering in the house.