Reading was interrupted when these comments reminded me that the fall-planted veggies no longer need the protection of the leaves that blew into the garden.
I made a visible difference, but there are several sessions to go.
I don’t remember any coal soot in the house. But then, the coal furnace came after we got electricity and running water, and it was filled by a stoker. I used a grain scoop when it was my turn to fill the stoker because I couldn’t lift the coal shovel.
I didn’t fill the grain scoop with coal.
Mom went on cleaning binges, but I don’t remember specifically-spring cleaning.
We had a still-air temperature of six below in Indiana not all that long ago. And I was out on my bike that day — wearing hand-knit alpaca tights valued at a thousand dollars in 1970. First time in decades that I’ve had a chance to wear them.
“DH is Dear Husband and DD Dear Daughter.”
Were you on the Big Knitlist?