Countdown

1 week until my cool season veggies sprout on the warm patio.

3 weeks until the farmers' market opens.

5 weeks until my tomato and pepper seedlings go in the ground.

0 weeks until I get cool stuff from my CSA.

That's right, Easy Bean Farm is sending out awesomeness right now. Granted, the awesomeness is not edible, but I love the emails and pics Farmer Mark emails every week. I get to see him working on his tractor and cheering on the leek seedlings. Farmer Mark is cool.

It's a good thing, because we are wrapping up a major warm snap that signaled my springtime impatience to burst forth like dandelions in the patio cracks. Like bunnies in my lettuce container. Like the inevitable succession of baby animals that lodge themselves in our egress window well and await rescue. We've had a baby rabbit, a baby albino squirrel, and a baby bird. It's one of our signs of spring, like my husband scraping last year's caked-on meat from the grill, or feelings of embarrassment at the neighbors' still-displayed reindeer lawn ornaments.