Spring has arrived!

Spring has arrived at Blossom Ridge Farm and it has been warm enough to work outside in a t-shirt.

Saturday was a beautiful day and we met Barbara and Denny at Biaggi's for a meal. The food was good and the company even better. We spent only about half of the money we were given by the insurance company for picking up the campsite after the ice storm, so we hope to eat out again, this time letting Denny and Barbara choose the restaurant.

After the meal we drove to the cottage to meet with Kathy's son who was there cutting down and cutting up some of the smaller trees and limbs, most of which fell during the ice storm. Kathy helped pile up some of the wood that will be used later as firewood, and also some of the twigs. Allen and Anna, whom we had camped near for the last several years, stopped by in their truck and took a quick tour of the cottage. Bonnie cleaned out her raised beds, starting to get them ready for planting. She has ordered her seeds and plants.

Denny and Barbara are busy working on their retaining walls and Denny was rebuilding one of them. Kathy stopped by to see what they were doing and it looked like a lot of work to her!

Gizmo joined Kathy at the farm today and he seemed to have a good time. Kathy had forgotten just what her hedge trimmer was capable of doing, and she remembered wrong and got nothing done. So she moved into the cottage and swept the basement stairs and cleaned the loft stairs. She also had short visits with Denny and Barbara individually.

We expect to move the end of April but the move will be dependent on when Rex gets the rest of the electrical and plumbing completed. That must be finished before the final house inspection can be done which, of course, must be done before we can move in. We have every confidence that Rex will be able to wrap things up in time for us to get in by the end of April.

We found another place on the west side of the house where the siding has buckled, so Bonnie will be mentioning it to Mike who was probably going to walk around anyway to check for additional buckling when he fixes the buckled siding on the south side of the house. We miss our weekly visits with Mike to admire his handiwork and to discuss the work to come. We look forward to working with him again as finances allow.