Come on, Spring!

We can't wait for Spring around here.  It simply is not coming fast enough!  

To hurry it along just a little bit we did the starters for our garden yesterday.  Well, Rob and Maggie did.  They planted two types of Heirloom tomatoes and one cherry tomato, as well as hot peppers, spinach, and a few beans and peas.  They'll be ready to put outside in 6-8 weeks.  The biggest trick around here is keeping them away from the deer.  We have a lovely old neighbor who likes to feed the deer just two doors down from us and we've had hoof-prints all over the yard all winter long.  This is not a good omen for peas and beans.  Or spinach.  So we're researching container gardening, looking for old sheets at thrift stores, and pricing tall fencing.  But for now we have one sweet little tray of potting mix and tiny seeds... and one excited little gardener.