Last week was spring break. I've been super busy though - doing lots in the garden with spring coming on and lots of lovely weather, and also school.

We've ordered 10 raspberry bushes (my favorite fruit) and 6 new blueberries to join the 2 we already have, and have planted 3 pomegranate trees. Also, Nataw and I have been planting lots of seeds in the vegie garden, and we now have peas, kale, chard, collards, radishes and carrots showing their little tops! I wonder if I will ever lose the joy and delight of seeing those first shoots - every time something comes up I am so thrilled. I am so amazed that those things should grow - partly that I should have done something successfully garden-wise, and partly at the miracle of creation and re-creation.

Nataw and I have learned so much in our Organic Vegetable Growing class - and have also enjoyed the traveling time (30 mins each way) talking and catching up with each other. She is a treasure.

We went to the opening night of The Bluest Eye - an adaptation of the novel by Toni Morrison - last weekend. Wow. It was very very powerful. A stunning production that left us almost speechless - all we could do when we came out of there was just draw deep breaths. The director was Trezana Beverley who I gather is well known - she has done several of the productions we've seen at the Playmakers Theatre.

We're going to be out of town for the next two weekends - a conference of mine in Nashville, and then one for Paul in Atlanta - and so I've spent the last 10 days writing the next 3 weeks of lectures, in order to get ahead. It's a lot of work, but oh, so fun.

I went for an interview with Weight Watchers last Friday - and had a phone call this morning (now that she had read my resume and stuff) saying when could I start? They need good Leaders and one who's already worked in that capacity is a bonus for them. I'm happy to be getting involved again. And am now only 4 pounds from goal weight. Yay! I go shopping in my closet every week and find something new every time!

Goodness, isn't it strange to have daylight saving coming so early? We got up yesterday morning at 6.30 to go to Mass and it was pitch dark. Yuck. But the long evenings are lovely of course.