Happy Friday friends!

Not much to report here. This week’s cold, ice, and a little snow kept our staff from coming in most of the week. Undeterred, Mandy has been cleaning and organizing like crazy, so there are racks, rubbermaids, tables, and materials of all kinds moving from one place to the next as she cleans, paints, and does bits of carpentry with her new battery powered circular saw (loves it). Fun fact, when Mandy and I started dating in 2006 and we moved her across the country to CA, we got her a job doing construction with my old boss and my brother, while I did Timber Framing at a business across the street. We’d meet for lunch covered in sawdust and dirt and little hearts in our eyes. On the weekends, we’d take jobs doing landscaping, small tree work, lime plaster work, and whatever else we could find (and were just barely qualified for at times) to save money to buy land for our dream farm. We also worked nights at side jobs for four years during that time too. I’m just realizing that our work schedule has been exactly the same for 18 years now. I’ll need to speak to a manager. Or a therapist.

Our tunnels slowly starting to wake up

  While I’ve allowed her much of the fun in the frosty outdoors (she’s 100 times better than me (and anyone I’ve ever met) at visualizing and organizing and just making things happen) I’ve been sitting at a desk, plugging away at a year’s worth of bookkeeping, developing presentations for a couple of organizations (on the topic of newsletters actually), and drawing up plans to rebuild a section of the barn that I just discovered is rotting and at risk of collapse.  Never a dull day.  We’re looking forward to some days warmer than the 30’s coming up here (48 today!) and next week, we’re looking at nights above freezing too which is preferable.  The flowers and plant babies all need some warm temps in both day and night to really get growing.The crew is in the much warmer basement dividing up our dahlia tubers as I type this.If you’re not signed up for our wait lists for dahlia tubers or hellebores and are interested in grower either, I highly recommend doing so.  You'll get first access to the sales by being on the waitlist.  After that, we open the sale to the rest of our customer base and things tend to sell out.  Those sales are coming up soon, so sign up now!

  If you are looking for that perfect Valentines or Gal’entines gift for a flower lover in your life, we’ve got spring poppy subscriptions and mixed flower subscriptions for both March and April available still.  These sell out too, but right now there’s still space in all the options…..weekly, bi-weekly, spring favorites, or poppies only.  If that loved one is a grower that’s big on dreams, but tight on funds, we’ve got our heirloom chrysanthemums that are a must have for flower farmers and gardeners that you could gift them in lieu of flowers.  If you’re tight on funds too, just give them a high five and big smile.Sending y’all wishes of warmth and good times this weekend.

Steve