Winter???

The weather here this week has been phenomenal. It has reached highs in the 60s all week. Tomorrow we will return to winter with highs in the low 30s. Ah, but it was a pleasant respite. I used up a half hour of my lifetime this morning just watching the turkeys. One hen is definitely the leader. The Tom is very subservient to her. She finds the food, she protects them from perceived dangers and she is the biggest bully. The guineas are no longer allowed to go into two of their favorite feeding plotsas she has claimed them for the turkeys. The cats give the turkeys plenty of room as well. After watching them closely this morning, I can see why. They have beaks that could obviously do some serious damage. They eat carrion among other things and they are well built for tearing into meat. They have claws on their toes which are nearly big enough to qualify as talons. Their wings could easily beat a small creature to death. The white domestic turkeys raised for the Thanksgiving tables are really stupid animals with no survivor instincts. Our turkeys are at the other end of the spectrum. I'm thinking turkeys and cockroaches may be the only things left on earth at the end. (And then the turkeys will eat the cockroaches.) The plants in the greenhouse are growing well with the exception of the spinach which has become infested with aphids. I don't know how the bugs got in there. It is too early in the season to be able to order ladybugs to exterminate them so we had to resort to diatomatious earth. It is messy, but about 85% effective. So far none of the other greens have been affected, so we still have salad to eat. Yummy. We transplanted the tomatoes Evelyne started in her new Christmas present yesterday...all 72 of them. They all look like they are doing well. I sure hope lots of people want to buy tomato plants this spring or we will have some huge jungle of tomatoes growing in our back yard! She then planted basil seeds in her planting dome so we won't need to buy those plants this year either. All the warm weather has given me a serious case of spring fever. I'm ready to go play in the yard. Since it is too early on the calendar for that to happen, I'll leave you with this thought: "Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but doesn't get you anywhere."