Germination

At this time of year our mailbox fills up with seed catalogs and visions of warmer weather and garden bounty float through our fireside dreams. I spent some time yesterday afternoon circling seed descriptions and dog-earring their pages to organize my orders, but when I went online, company after company had a disclaimer about how delayed shipping would be on account of how high the demand for their products are this year. It seems that early seed starting is yet another pandemic-driven craze. I can hardly get upset about the appreciation our culture is recently showing for slowing down and doing things the old-fashioned way; I just hope my seeds get here in time!