Hour til dinner. Review a set of flashcards. Then read a little. I'm about a quarter of the way into Der Tod des Vergil. Best novel of German modernism, if you want my opinion. Been many years since I read it, but reread is not disappointing. Not all

Rather more than an hour of yarding and gardening. Got the first section of the rose garden mulched. Plus weeding. First dandelions blossoming in the front yard. Dug both of them up. After the rain Wednesday night, the ground is so soft.

Back again for another day. Warming up. Grey and mild, but temps climbing. 52F/11C. Already read my Latin with very good results. Gardens are waiting for my attentions

Back to the stone age? I understand why the us wouldn't want to be there by itself

It has been a grey chilly day. 48F/9C. A fine mist falling all day. Not a day for gardening, so I ran errands for hours. Two errand were yard and garden related tho. I got enough mulch to finish mulching the gardens and got gas so I can mow

Thunderstorm while I was out. Stopped for the moment now

Time to roll for a very small night out

So hot today I need to wash up, even though I was only doing light work

almost an hour on yard and garden. Muched part of the rose garden, lightly pruned the pink rose so there's room between it and the fendce, raked up outside the fence where I tossed clippings yesterday, weed killer on the growth in the cracks in the drive, the curb and the walk in front of the house

3pm. I should do something. Like a little gardening

Anway , yesterday was a record high temp for the date. Today is hot again. 81F/27C. Like late May

Slow launch. I'll get as far as doing something soon. No doubt

I'm going to walk into town. Tuesday night out!

Now wonder I'm so hungry. I never ate breakfast!

m,aking cocoa despite the late spring weather. btw, I accidentally learned today that cocoa is a Latin word

Just short of an hour in the garden. Last section cleaned up. Do some mulching tomorrow

i take it back. Wind from the southwest. It was just a weird gust the first time I checked

Northeast wind, but sunny and hot. Like mid-May. 75F/24C. Started the day with a very good session of Latin. Once again 5 pages of Aristotle in Latin. De Interpretatione is only 40 pages long, so I've finished it once, and can reread now with a much better idea of what it's about.

Hour in the garden. Cleaned out the middle section of the rose garden and even got a good start on the last section. Looks like I can finish that section tomorrow. Backyard neighbor had the grandson out mowing the yard

Very warm. Lotta sun. 65F/18C. had blood drawn this morning. Finally looked into the property tax exemption for seniors. Read 5 pages of Aristotle in Latin and 10 of Gregory of Tours. The Gregory really went well. And now it's time to get out in the rose garden

Mild, but quite breezy 58F/14C. 5 pages of Aristotle in Latin. 10 pages of the miracles of St. Martin. hour off organizing for gardening and an hour cleaning out the first section of the rose garden. Good start to the day

Jane Fonda. Joan Baez. Like it's in syndication

Grey. Cool. Day's rain may be done. 50F/10C. I've got to run around doing things

Sunny. Light breeze. Very warm. Another excellent Latin session. Met a friend for a beverage on the terrace outside the coffee shop. And now gardening. Mulch the last section off the flower garden. Full spring!

Seasonably changeable day. Clouds to sun, heading back to clouds. 53F/12C

I need to eat

Another hour in the garden. Spread mulch in 1/2. Oral surgery tomorrow morning. My well not try to finish the mulching tomorrow

Anyway, I've got to get ready for grocery shopping

Sunny. Breezy. Chilly. 43F/6C. Most beautiful spring. Put in an excellent session of Latin this morning. Flashcard vocab instantly popping in the reading. And the reading on Merovingian bishops I've been doing is very helpful understanding Gregory.

Woke up with the butchers running things on my mind. Stayed irritable all day. Now it's time to end the day, and it's not a minute too soon

Grey. The rain has stopped. On the cool side of seasonable. 48F/9C

First daffodils too

Many more crocus now

Sunny. Warm. 61F/16C. And getting a whole lot warmer. Friend came calling and we sat outside by the garden. Latin before and after. Once again, some real reading. I need to eat breakfast then get back out for some gardening

Nice nght on Main Street. Mild weather. A little too warm for walking, in fact. At least dressed as I was. Spring break, so students gone and not a lot of other people out. But that also meant the non-alcoholic beverage venues closed early. And now I'm ready for bed

Mild. The sun comes and goes. 60F/16C. Excellent Latin reading. Gregory's book of martyrs' miracles just gets easier by the day. Going to slip out to the garden for a few minutes

Small night out. Raining now.

First gardening of the spring

The other March today. Sunny. Calm. Warm. 49F/9C and rapidly warming. Half an hour into astronomical spring.

Real nice afternoon with my friend Bob. Now for some more garden maintenance

Grey. A little cool, but ultimately seasonably mild. 42F/6C

Up too late? You could say

A few minutes early for dinner, but I might as well get started

Just short of an hour in the garden. Went right to plan. First quarter of the larger garden pretty well cleaned out and applied the mild, organic fertilizer. Need to get some mulch, and weed around the exterior of the fence to be really done

New issue of the Journal of Big Bend Studies in today's mail

Still haven't eaten breakfast

Sunny. Chilly. 35F/2C. Still March, still winter, tho the equinox is almost on us

going to walk in to town. wind's died down. should be pretty comfortable

Makin a new set of flashcards to start Sunday. After I wrote about finding "immachinate" in Gravity's Rainbow yesterday, one of the new verbs is "machinor." There's something to think about on a couple of levels

Raking and bagging, and it was brisk. But I was bundled up. Just managed to get the slightest start on the larger flower garden. See if can't get the first quarter cleaned out tomorrow. Something to look forward to