Aaaaah! Gardening weather here at last! (Who am I kidding?)

I know, this is Denver. I know, I know. It will probably freeze again. It could snow, even.

Just don't talk to me right now, because the day is yummy hot, and the light all golden and sideways outside. 85 degrees today. The cold frames are open and the plants are all doing stretches and deep knee bends, getting ready to get out there and GROW and bear fruit.

The lettuces and greens are just plumb gorgeous. Our hothouse of warm weather plants is having mostly good success, but some failures. (The hot house is "Old School," our name for last years garden, with the cold frame Brad built from pvc and plastic sheets) The watermelon is not going to make it. The tomatoes, sugar snap peas, peppers, and cucumbers are alive and well. and eggplant. and broccoli.

But we have to put them in the ground!!! And tomorrow is the day. Jess gets back with Travis (meaning we will have some muscle back in town), and we are doing this thing. And we'll have pics.

Oh, and we are winning the bunny battle! With pepper. Cayenne powder, chili flakes, you name it. We've sprinkled it around the lettuces that are tender and sweet. (Apparently rabbits aren't into arugula.)

So far, it is immediately successful. Except the rabbit has found a new plant as of yesterday in a different part of the garden, so I had to protect it with the magic pepper powder. I feel like some medieval witch sprinkling red dust in a circle around my plants, muttering. I imagine a rabbit frozen with terror, peering through the weeds behind the shed out at me. Bwa ha ha ha!!!!

I think I'll pour a glass of wine and sit in the pretty. Brad has flown off to Italy without me, but I will toast him. And the sunset. Aaaaahhh.