Hobby Farm Magazine e-mailed and said they are publishing my essay in their new Readers Resume column. Yeah! First piece in a national magazine and will be in their "next issue"...I think they mean June/July. They want me to send photos of me working on the farm...oh joy...this is phat season...I work in quilted Carharts. I'll look like everyone's phat Granny <g>.

Another six hours, a lot of it on the mountain because the spring was stopped up again. This is getting rude. Temps were in single digits because of wind chill. My bones are still achey...aspirin and bed for me.