Making Babies!

We'll be actually starting our seeds today.  Hopefully, you've all got the needed materials together that we talked about last time.  We'll get to that in a bit.
Hope you all had a good week.  My weather has been up and down this past few days, with a nasty cold rain on Wednesday to a decent spring day Thursday to an actually too warm day on Friday.  I spent a little while walking in the wooded area near where I work and saw the normal telltales of Spring:  The skunk cabbage was poking up as expected, and the grass in the sunniest areas was actually looking like it was trying to lengthen itself.  Could be just wishful thinking. In my backyard, the crocus are all up and flowering their best and the daffs, tulips, and hyacinths are getting ready to shoot up flower stalks. This morning as I tried to convince myself it would be a better thing to be upright, rather than curled up in the water bed, I realized I was hearing something I hadn't heard in a while.  The chatter of my State Bird, The Robin!  I haven't seen one as yet, but now that I realized what I had heard, I remembered hearing one a few days ago too.  That is a good thing. 
I finally got myself up and headed down for my coffee.  Of course, I looked out back to see what was stirring.  The cat that the neighborhood adopted last summer was at my door looking for his handout.  I slid the door open a bit and poured a handful of catfood onto his plate.  He thanked me with a meow and went straight to work on it.  As I stood to close the door, I glanced over to the forsythia bush on the corner of the yard.  Usually, this houses a couple dozen sparrows of various types.  This morning was no different, except maybe the noise was a bit louder than it has been.  Well, it IS mating season, after all. 
Anyway, the thing that caught my eye, was a male cardinal.  "OhOh", I thought....then realized Kathy had left for work.  She seems not to be fond of them and tells them to "GO HOME" whenever she sees one.  Must be an association with snow.  Speaking of which, I noticed the snow shovel is still by the door.  She doesn't want to tempt mother nature by putting it away.
I checked the feeders before I shut the door, and made a mental note to fix the one by the back door.  One section of the feeder has screen instead of plastic, and one of the local squirrels has figured out that if he puts a claw into in and pulls, he doesn't have to work so hard for breakfast. 
So, I am off to find mine...then we can get to work.