This was last Saturday — nearly two feet of snow, followed by a couple of days of very cold weather — temps down into the single digits overnight. This weekend, it’s all melted off, and it’s a lovely day, sunny and nearly 50 degrees. Although I tucked the garden up for winter a few weeks ago, there were some greens and leeks still out, and I’d tucked up a few kale, komatsuna, and chard plants in a hoop house, hoping to eat my own greens as long as possible this year.  Here’s what I found under the plastic, and a…

The photo is kind of dark, but as they say on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour — this is what’s making me happy this week. It’s a small-ish, 5-line clothesline I put up in the basement. When I first bought this house the whole basement was strung with clothesline — but the lines went the long way — and were in a place that was inconvenient (and they were kind of old and spiderwebby and scary). So when they replaced my water lines a few years ago, I had them cut them down. But as those of you who have…