I hope your Christmas is merry, Amy. Everyone else, too!

Merry Christmas day to all. I think I'll read a garden catalog now that the rush is over. LOL I have only ordered onions, so I need to place an order or two. Only about 8 weeks until I start planting.

Here I am a day late, but better late than never. I hope everyone's holiday was merry and filled with love and joy.

I've only ordered seeds from SESE so far but that was a large order so I likely won't need to order too many more. Well, I won't "need" to order too many more, but I am sure I'll find plenty more that I want. I've got a nice stack of garden catalogs and more continue to arrive almost every day.

A few days ago I mentioned that the best thing about the post-Christmas days is that the day after Christmas, some of the local stores start putting out garden supplies. This year, TSC didn't even make me wait until the day after Christmas. We were in the Gainesville TSC on either Monday or Tuesday and they already had garden carts and portable greenhouses out in the store. It was a lovely pre-Christmas reminder that seed-starting season now is approaching. I have no intention of setting foot in a store this weekend if I can avoid it. I avoid the post-Christmas clearance sales and return desks like the plague, but when I go out next week to grocery shop and run errands, I fully expect to see seed-starting supplies in some stores.

Cold weather is bearing down on us and at least some of us are likely to see snow in the next week while all of us in OK should have some pretty cold weather next week, but I'll ignore the weather and focus on garden-planning and seed-starting. It may be winter outdoors, but in my heart, spring is practically here already. We've got sunflower seeds, gourds and squash sprouting in the garden and gravel driveway, which is lovely to see, but those poor little volunteers will freeze any day now. They let some warm December weather trick them into sprouting too early. I don't blame them, though, as I am looking forward to the growing season too.