forty five below

Edmonton was the coldest place on the planet last night colder than Antartica colder than Siberia. It was minus 37 here and the gardening catalogues are starting to arrive MacFayden's cover is all vegies and sunflowers I drooled and still I am drooling.
I am definitely trying to reign in my enthusiasm but I have at least 12 cuttings off my geraniums and that new one is coming nicely. I want to plant I think probably at least a half a dozen artichokes, and about a dozen fennel and at least a couple of packages of perrenials and herbs and if I could find a package or two of stocks or daturas maybe something that I can use for cut flowers or maybe....I will try to reign in my enthusiasm. I love the winter but I spend a lot of it dreaming of spring.
There are dreams of expanding my garden and rearranging the rhubarb and bringing native medicinals and edibles into the yard in the marble raised bed in the front yard.
With another couple of yards of dirt delievered in the spring enough for another raised bed for the garden at least 10 or 12 bales of straw for mulch and pathways, and a half a yard of sand to add to the beds that we have and a half a yard of stone for the pathway along the garage. I want to grow white tomatoes again. I want my cucumbers to grow this year and so I will start them in March I think. Sunflowers for seeds, beans varieties to eat, dry and pickle, corn for both dry and eating fresh, pumpkins and squash, roots for storage, onions and garlic for braiding and chickens for eggs. Peppers, and lettuce, spinach and fennel, herbs and flowers, corn salad and bloody dock, I need to settle down and curb my enthusiasm so that I can plan this out and plant beautiful things in raised beds that will be used for teas, and tissanes, food for the table and flowers for my spirit.
The garden catalogues are starting to arrive hurray.
cheers