COUNTRY:
Spring is still a future hope up here! However, I checked the forecast and we are to have most of a week above freezing after today - 18F and sunny! So today, instead of getting to the glazing that I had meant to do today, I drove 10 minutes to the "dahlia man" and found a marvellouos big greenhouse full of beautiful tropical plants - from mandevillia for the spring market to 6 foot banana trees! Such a treat for me! I LOVE greenhouses/plants....

He was at the Market on Sunday and said he has soil for planting so I went to fetch some for my heritage seeds. ending up with a huge bale of soil of which I have used a miniscule amount to start the pepper seeds - 5 varieties. He and his wife were delightful and seem such contented people- with their beautiful, thriving business -on line and at markets, and a lovely home in a very rural setting. Sunday, he handed out dahlia muffins and had a recipe for them! They also gave me flats in which to plant the seeds including mini greenhouse covers for them. The peppers are started now, in the sun room which is HOT today! Later I will start other plants. The flats have tiny cells for 8x16 plants so I still have room for lots more. If I need to pot them before good pepper weather, there are lots of small pots under the snow in the city.

On the way back to the mil, I dropped off a book at the library, pots at the cafe, picked up newspapers at Geri's - sick and not up for a visit - and a bag of stuff at the thrift shop. Also tried to convince a young fellow that looking suspicious while smoking next to the book drop was not a good idea. Not seeming to get through to him in English, I popped into the adjacent youth centre and explained my concern to the staff and let them deal with it.

Two hours before I need to leave to go back to city for dancing. May be time to do some work in studio. Plan to come back down tomorrow also as I really want to GET THINGS DONE! Right now conflicted between sitting on computer or work in studio.....