A co-worker is getting the gardening bug - she has grown things in pots previously but this year is putting in some raised beds. I've pointed her at a list of a few of the organic tips I use that will give her the most bang for her buck, and if she comes over to a place near me to get a couple of yards of top soil I'll have her over to see my garden. So much to do in my garden to get ready for this year's busy growing season, but there is a lot of year round herb-type activity to show off. I'll have to dust off a couple of my blog links and send them to her.

I need to take the pruning shears to a few shrubs that got hit bad over the winter. They'll look wretched with a few green limbs and the rest dead. They can come back from the roots or not at all, but I'm not leaving them the way they look now, like tumbleweeds, scattered around my landscape.

This might be the weekend to also level my greenhouse. The weather is nice, we had some rain to make the digging a bit easier, and I need to do it before the dogs completely drop the back side of it into a trench they have been digging. Once it's level I'll do more with it (because the doors will close properly and I can regulate the temperature better for spring use. In the summer it is like an oven).

On eBay things have relisted and/or ended today without any sales. A couple of items are due to go to Goodwill tomorrow. That big chandelier ends later and will probably relist rather than sell - they usually take a few weeks. (I'm offering eBay observations for Linn, but if any of you have specific questions go ahead and ask them here, find the old eBay thread where I posted more information, or send an email.)

SRS