This is going to essentially be a photo entry.  Our yard is green and suddenly full of sweet violets and flowering bittercress. 

I've been teaching the girls to eat flowers out of the yard.  It's been fun, and educational... and it keeps some of the bittercress from going to seed. 



These are some photos from the yard, and here's what I've been doing with the plants I've been harvesting:

With Easter rapidly approaching, and 2 little kids at home who can't wait to have an Easter Egg hunt tomorrow morning, I absolutely had to dye some eggs.  We just did a dozen this year, but we dyed them the natural way because I really want to eat them, not just look at them.  And, quite frankly, those dye pellets they sell in the store scare me more than a little  bit...

We get our eggs from our butcher.  We usually get a dozen or two gorgeous brown jumbo-sized ones (free-range, collected by the guys that work at the butcher shop).  Today I bought 1 dozen of my usual brown beauties, and 1 dozen white eggs (still local, but from about 1 hour down the road) for dying.  I usually prepare my eggs as a meal by themselves.  No meat needed...  which is how I justify including them in out weekly food budget.