We had more snow earlier this week on Tuesday.  We didn't get as much as expected but enough, with the wind, that the township road to our place was drifted shut when I tried to get home at 5:30 p.m.  I went back to town and had supper and when I came back at 8 p.m. the road had been plowed and I was able to make it home.

It has warmed up this weekend though with lots of rain that has gotten rid of a lot of the snow on the ground.  I went to a pruning workshop on Saturday morning and learned what a terrible job I have done in the past in pruning my fruit trees.  I need to get out and start correcting my errors later this month.  I took these pictures today showing the mist rising off of the melting snow as the rain fell.  Temperatures were are in the low 50s.

One of my new projects this year is trying beekeeping.  I spent several evenings in February putting together these hive parts, including the frames to go in the hives, and temperatures were high enough today to start painting.  This is the first coat.  I will have two hives and have ordered two packages of bees which should be arriving in early April.

I had planted some of my seeds last weekend -- broccoli, brussell sprouts and cabbage--and they were up by Friday.  I plant to plant more of my seeds -- tomatoes and peppers -- today, about a week earlier than past years.