I’ve mentioned my “stalker” neighbor Sofie before haven’t I? She’s the little old lady that lives next door who stares at me from her living room window when I sit working on my desktop computer, or who rushes outside the moment I try to get any work done in the garden. Are you remembering her now?

Don’t get me wrong. She’s a nice enough lady, but she’s very lonely, and clingy and well, uhm this kind of creeps me out sometimes.

In an earlier post I had said that our weathers been warmer this week and that most of the snow that we got a week and a half ago or so is almost gone. Well this seems to have spurred the gardener in little Sophie because I saw her outside earlier poking through the earth in her garden. It’s 0 Celsius outside … too cold to be outside without a coat on!

I wouldn’t doubt that she’ll be out turning her soil daily soon. It’s not like she has anything growing in her garden, or that there’s really any tending that needs to be done on this day in the middle of March. It’s just soil. When she gardens she grows vegetables – tomatoes, peppers, leeks, mint and that’s pretty much it.

It’s not like weeds are likely to start growing this week. We are set for cooler weather again and maybe even some snow. It will be below zero most nights and perhaps a few of the days in the next week.

Looks like I’ll have to try to persuader her to stop puttering outside in the freezing cold.