small gardens & small government

  If you want to find the most interesting things in my garden you have to go to the edges. It's the first full day of spring.  This being Denver, after a couple weeks of 60°s to finish off winter, I'm looking out at 3 or 4 inches of snow and ice. Highs today perhaps the 30°s. Nothing really unusual in that. My desk calendar might be printed in black and white "SPRING BEGINS" but any gardener knows that it's not that binary a world. Heck it's not even analog as in a smooth gradual transition. Weather at a mile high is predictable in the sense that winter will be colder than summer but not in the sense that you can't have an 80° day in February and a freeze in July. It's more a what are the chances thing.  That gamble is part of the joy of gardening. It's also why the heart of my garden is located in the best sun, in raised beds with the best soil and best access to water. Ya gotta stack the odds some years just to have a chance.   Ah but those ed...

Read any good books lately? I'd offer two that are on my mind. Atomic Habits by James Clear and Antifragile by Nassim Taleb.   Atomic Habits is essentially a how to book on getting rid of bad habits and making good habits easier to acquire. It's brain hacking to get you from "I have to" to "I get to". Like most how to books it is more something to practice. Thus while I read it from the library Deb is getting me two copies (let me know if you want to borrow one.) and I signed up for his free website. I have a few bad habits I should ditch and a few good ones I need to add. Perhaps you do also.   Antifragile is more a hm-mm thinking philosophic book. It's philosophy has some real connections to our current Corona virus world. Mr Taleb divides 'things' into three categories, fragile, resilient, and anti fragile. Fragile things break when they get impacted (think eggs being dropped). Resilient things absorb a shock and bounce back (think rubber...