Yesterday marked the beginning of the countdown for the anticipated growing season of '12. Keeping in mind that Memorial Day weekend is the last day of frost, I counted 11 weeks till then. The weather has been unusually nice and I started to work outside. First, I used the garden hose to wash all the goat and chicken poop from the front lawn. The grass in that area started to turn green and the chickens are starting to scratch all over the yard, leaving huge holes in the ground.