So California is screwed. No rain, no snow. We gonna be thirsty this summer. We are letting our lawn die in the back yard and are replacing the front with rock and bark and a few drought tolerant plants. I'll be saving pasta water and cold shower water for my garden, which by the way has had a banner winter on account of all the sunshine. Cabbage, kale, carrots galore, and I ate the most fabulous golden beets and parsnips fresh from the garden tonight. Hope it doesn't shrivel up and die when I plant for the summer. I'm thinking...instead of an oil pipeline we need a water pipeline to transfer all that east coast snow they don't know what to do with out west.
Our chickens are laying about two dozen eggs per week now that there is more sun during the day. The yolks are so dark yellow from all the garden scraps we feed them they scramble almost orange. We got four new chicks to add to the brood. The yellow chicks will lay white eggs and the brown chicks will lay blue or green eggs. Our others lay various shades of brown, sometimes pink and occasionally spotted. Spring is my season, I love new life and new plants. The blueberries are already developing, as are the apricots and plums, but only one cherry tree has blossomed. It still may be a couple of years before we get any of those. The raspberries are coming back. There will be potatoes and more carrots soon, plus a new plantings of lettuces, chard and spinach. I hope my dreams of a flourishing garden won't be burned up in the summer heat.
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I'm surprised there hasn't been a way proposed to get some of the rain we get up here to take down there. We have plenty! Surprisingly though, our water utility is way more expensive than it ever was in California.
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