The front finally made it’s way through here and gave some people in TN some rain but not us.  We got a heavy dew for two days but not enough to even wet the ground so today we started by watering everything.  I watered the house garden before breakfast and the lower garden after breakfast.  The iris needed some work also so I did that before breakfast.  The scented purple iris always blooms first, now they are just about done and the bearded iris are now blooming so all the spent stocks from the purple ones needed to be cut out so the others can show off for us.  I also dead headed the snow ball bush.  Then after watering the lower garden I got the burn barrels going and we have finished the old brush piles finally.  What a job!!  Now when I get spare time I can clear out more paths through the woods for walking.  Norman has been working on the supports for the tomatoes.  We have more rows this year so he may have to cut some more saplings for cross bars for the supports but will do that this afternoon.  Then tomorrow we will put out as many tomato plants as are ready to go out.  The black berries are in bloom so it should be safe to put out the tomatoes.  Everything is growing well.  I have told Norman from now on he has to have fried greens every meal, of course he doesn’t mind as he loves them!!  We have Swiss chard, beet greens and spinach all growning so fast it is hard to keep up with it but I don’t want to start freezing any yet as we haven’t used all that we froze last year yet, we still have 2 spinach and 4 beet greens left in the freezer to use under roasts or in soups.  So when I stopped in the burning I picked a bag full of spinach, a crisper full of lettuce and four green onions for dinner.   Today is speghetti as we still have about 20 jars of speghetti sauce to use up before the tomatoes come in this year.  I am still thinning the spinach and lettuce so when I pick them I pull the whole plants.  When they are about 10 inches apart I will start picking just the leaves when we need a meal of them but for now they still need thinning.   Nothing else new here.  Have a great day.  Take care Joyce, I hope the snow storm didn’t hit you.