Yesterday we went to McMinnville to do our weekly shopping.  We went to the farmer’s market but there were only three farmers there and two of them only had plants for sale so I got a geranimum for the hanging basket on our front porch.  Then we went to Walmart and got the odds and ends of things we needed such as the yarn to finish the Raggedy Ann and Andys, the humming bird food for the feeder (The hummers come to visit us on the lower deck while we had our break.  That is always the way they tell us the feeds need filling)  batteries for the smoke detectors (now we have to wait to hear from the company as they are not working correctly and the contractor did not leave us an owers manuel to see why one is beeping all the time.  They are all hooked together so we can’t just disconnect one and leave the other three going.)  and a few other such things.  Almost no food as we are still working on the freezer and getting so much from the garden.  Today I weeded the aspagus beds and the hosta bed, then picked 2 pounds of spinach to have for dinner.  We are having pork florintine.  This afternoon I will work on the dolls again.  I got one all done, hair and all now I need to get the other five done before I can start on the kewpie dolls.  Today is also bread making day so that got on to rise early this morning and is about ready to go into the oven now.  Almost time to order more flour from Littleton,NH.  I like their flour the best.  I should get some more brand also.  We have chopped oat meal for breakfast each day and we put a tablespoon of brand and a table spoon of raisens in while it is cooking.  the brand gives more fiber and makes it sweeter, while the raisens add another flavor that we like.  Hi to Joyce and Don.  It should be nice a warm up there now.  We are headed into another warm up too so it gets to warm to work much in the afternoon.  Morning, Shanti, did you get your fruit trees sprayed or are you trying to go organic?  With fruit trees I don’t see how anyone can do that completely.  We had a very mild winter so none of the bugs were killed off as they usually are in the winter so without the spray this year  we would have no fruit at all.  Oh, Dad found one more pear on the Moon Glow pear tree when he sprayed it today, so I didn’t kill them all, only two out of the three.  Maybe if he keeps me away from the tree we will get one pear to see what they taste like.  Have a great day.