We got the gardens around the house all cleaned up and Norman tilled the kitchen garden.        He planted beets, spinach, snow peas and lettuce, then the next day it turned cold.  A big storm pasted just to the north of us and I thought we would miss this one but by the next day we got the freezing rain or I should say drizzle.  We didn’t get much ice so I don’t think it did any harm to the seeds.  Then it snowed and we got about an inch to cover the garden.  They say the late snow like that is called the poor man’s fertilizer because the snow pulls nitrogen out of the air and melts it into the soil.  If that is true it could have done the seeds good, I want to believe it!!                                                                                                                                 Yesterday never got above 30 so the seeds were not happy campers. It started at 30 degrees in the morning and just got colder all day with a temperature of 19 by 4 in the afternoon but today it started out at 30 and by 2 this afternoon it was 48 degrees and so nice and warm in the sun.  That should wake up the seeds.  They promise a touch of spring for the next week so tomorrow Norman will till about 1/3 of the large garden.  I will burn brush from last year and prepare the potatoes for planting.  They need to sit and cure after I cut them so by Sunday we can plant them.  We have 10 pounds of Kenbec (white potatoes), ten pounds of Yukon Gold and ten pounds of Pontiac (red potatoes)  That should give us enough to feed us all this summer and can a few also.                                         Yesterday Norman cut up the big tree that fell this winter.  It was alive but the center was rotten so the heavy ice this winter was too much for it and a good wind took it down.  He cut the large limbs and piled them to dry and I will burn those later this summer.  The large chunks of the trunk he rolled out of the path- this is the path to the bluff.                       Today we went to the doctor for Norman’s shot.  He has had these shots for about four years now and as much as he hates it he knows now that he must have the shote in the eye ball every month to six weeks for the rest of his life.  The first time he got macula degeneration in his right eye they didn’t have these shots so they had to laser the eye and that destroyed the central vision in that eye.  So when the left eye began bleeding he was lucky they had found this new treatment.  The shots have stopped the bleeding but we found out this year after trying to go without the shots, that he can never stop them or he will lose his sight in that eye also.  We are luckier that most because they can treat the wet macula degeneration but not the dry and he has the wet.  We thank God for small favors. Have a great day and stay well.