I guess I didn't have enough to do

So, you remember how I said I wasn't going to do a spring garden this year because the yard needed so much attention after the flood and harsh winter? Well, all my neighbors have been tilling their gardens this week getting ready to plant and the weather has been sunny and not too warm and I just couldn't help it. I got over there and cleaned out the raised beds of all the weeds yesterday afternoon. 

before, well, almost before, I had already done the raised bed on the left before I remembered to take a picture

Also started cleaning out between the beds where the weed cloth was washed away and was back over there this morning so yeah, I guess I'm doing a spring garden. I do need to fetch a yard of dirt to top off the beds and throw in some fertilizer and compost but I'll do that next week and then it's off to the Hungerford Co-op to see what they've got.

I watched Hidden Figures the other night, the movie about the three black women, computers as they were called by NASA, who were tasked with doing the calculations that would allow us to put a man in orbit in our space race against the Russians before the age of computers when all the calculations had to be done by people. The story focuses on three brilliant African American women who were crucial to the success of the nascent space program. Kathryn Jonson, who at the age of 9 was sent to a black university and stunned her fellow students and teachers with her brilliance, was responsible for not only the calculations that allowed NASA to send John Glenn into orbit but also the approach that allowed them to bring him home again; Dorothy Vaughn whose expertise and intelligence helped design the capsule so that it would not burn up in re-entry and became the first black female engineer at NASA in a strictly segregated state, civil rights desegregation laws notwithstanding; and Mary Jackson who was the acting supervisor of the black 'computers' and who when she learned that NASA was getting one of the first IBM computers that would make their jobs obsolete, she went to the library and taught herself everything she needed to know to know about how to program and run the computer and then set out to teach her co-workers the same thereby saving all their jobs. The acting was superb and the culture of segregation was honestly portrayed. It was a very engaging movie and I recommend it highly.

The next two months are going to be busy as I will be overseeing the work being done on the house and making the final decisions on the bathroom, working to recover the flower beds before it gets hot and I leave for Portugal in May, getting the spring garden in, and because I didn't have enough to do already, I agreed to participate in the spring open house with my artist friends April 28^th and 29^th so I need to finish casting the big drowned feather pieces, cast the lizard with anemones, and make a few more smaller items. Maybe even finish the blue heron box.

Well, my week alone is nearly at an end as I pick Marc up from the airport tomorrow. I've got one more movie I'm getting ready to watch, The Girl On The Train, and one more night alone in the bed splayed out in the big middle.