It's a beautiful sunny day and I see that two coworkers have called in sick. I've never seen so much sick leave consumed in the library as has been taken since the reorganization last summer. It's a job just dragging myself off of the property to head over there.

Last night's freeze was brief at most and I can take the towel off of my one large basil plant. Next weekend I'll be busy in the yard digging beds because I bought a flat of plants yesterday on my way home from work. They spent the night in the greenhouse. I put beneficial nematodes in the garden last month so these plants should be free of cutworms and such. I'll start cucumbers and zucchini from seed. Everything will get a spoonful of mackerel in the hole before a small scoop of dirt and then the plant or the seeds.

Taking a loaf of banana bread to work today. It's a wonder we don't all gain lots of weight with our comfort food in that unhappy place.

Linn of Kansas, if you check in, please rejoin our group if it will help you cope with all that you probably are coping with right now. I am sorry to have read of JohnInKansas' passing last week. Send me a PM and I can share another group with you that might be helpful, if you're on facebook.

Maggie