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Although spring is officially less than two weeks away, we are still having very winter like weather. The wind is howling around our farm house bringing with it more freezing temperatures. Still Shirley and I are preparing for the planting season. In fact, we've been thinking, discussing an planning for this year's gardening for several weeks. Shirley has been doing much of the planning by laying out the garden, ordering seeds and even planting some indoors already. I'll let her fill you in on those details in her blog entry.Part of this blog will also be about our foray into the world of maple syrup making. Our landlord has several acres of trees and has allowed us to tap several of the maples growing there. We also have one nice sized maple just outside our lower garden. We will be adding an upper garden this spring in last year's 84x84 pig pasture. Our desire is to provide as detailed a record of our gardening experience this year as possible. Our limited Internet connection keeps us from posting like we want, but we should be able to keep up with the day to day progress. I'll be blogging about how we lay out our garden on the computer and how I build trellises. As I finish this blog, Shirley is reading the weather to me from AccuWeather.com. The weather right now is 43 degrees, but will drop to 15 degrees tonight (real feel of -4). Amazing Wisconsin weather! Just one of the challenges of gardening in South Central Wisconsin.