Is this what spring is like? Just go, go, go?

I feel like I’ve run a marathon over the weekend. It’s been nonstop – just one chore after another. I began my weekend with pulling weeds. There were dandelions scattered about the lawn and in the crevices of the rocks and a kind of plant I’ve never seen it before. It’s a kind of ground cover with dainty little blue flowers. The first time I saw was on my neighbor’s lawn late last year where he typically parks his truck. I wonder if he drove his truck through a field and somehow had seeds trapped between the treads of his tires.

As much as I love a ground cover, I wanted something that wouldn’t spread like wildfire. I have creeping thyme started from seed and planned to use that for ground cover. I know they will spread but I feel like it can be a controlled spread.

I’ve been telling myself that I must plant the new blueberry bush and potatoes this weekend. Never even got to it. I spent most of Saturday weeding before tending to seedlings. Sunday was mostly transplanting and building one last trellis to complete the trellis project. In between all of this, I was constantly being told to get in the house even though I was in the shade.

I think I’m feeling this urgency to get everything done because in a part of my mind, I believe this is a false spring, that the temperature will plummet and we’re right back in winter again. Normally, the temperature doesn’t go from the 40’s to the mid-60’s in one week and then to the low 80’s by mid month. I feel like I was pushed into spring rather than easing into the warmth one day at a time.

I have been frantically transplanting – 6 to 12 plants per day, stuffing them in any available space. I know I’ve planted too much this year but in my defense, I thought I would have more time to transplant. I practiced succession sowing but the transplants that were a few weeks behind were rapidly catching up.

Looking at the weather ahead, it keeps threatening with frost but there’s none coming, it will just get warm and then a one-day dip in temperature before resuming the warm trend again. What a roller coaster ride! This will certainly take some used to.