As Of Today - An Update on Things

We are still very busy with spring chores and getting ready for planting.  I planted up many hanging baskets and tubs of flowers, only to have the wind come up suddenly and blow everything to pieces the next day!   I rescued most of my planters and boxes and put them in the greenhouse for safekeeping and recovery, and I will probably only lose about 10 individual plants.   Not bad.  And I do have replacement plants to put in the containers.
     The greenhouse is growing nicely.  Here's a view of things in there now:

And a view from another angle:

Our apple tree is in full bloom now, and prettier than it ever was!   The blossoms are thicker than last year, so I hope that means more apples than we have ever had!

Every branch is covered with blossoms on our Prairie Magic apple tree!

Today I found one of our bees on the apple blossoms!  It's a cold and windy day today, so this is a really hardy bee!

You can see one of our bees in the middle of this photo.   There were quite a few hardy bees today working the apple blossoms.   That's good, because this September we are hoping for LOTS of apples!

Apple blossoms are very pretty.  I think they almost look like little orchids:

Harold has been busy getting the antique corn planter ready to plant corn.  Today he is putting the tires on it.  He needed an 'extra hand' to lift the planter, so the tractor loader came in handy as a lifter!

There are lots of moving parts to the vintage planter, so he was busy lubricating everything and getting things to run smoothly.

And finally, I checked on our new kittens.  They are a couple weeks old, and their eyes are opened now.   I must say these are the healthiest looking kittens we have had here on the farm in a long time!  So far, Mama kitty has done a fabulous job with her first litter.  They will be out of the box and running around,  learning about the farm in no time!

The new kittens were not very cooperative for photo taking, but they sure are cute!  They don't look anything like mama kitty, though, as she is a pale brown long hair. 

We just heard that the weather guys are predicting temps of about 26 for the next few days.  Oh no!  Harold is rigging up a propane heater for the greenhouse to keep things from freezing in there, and I will have to cover one tub of flowers that is too heavy to move.   But I think this will be winter's "last hurrah" for freezing temperatures.