Spring rain marks the farmer's New Year.  We are jumping up and cheering, making resolutions and greasing up the plows.  In a day or two, the entire ridge line I look at each morning will be blanketed in color again - the surge of a new season.  That spring green-up, like the rain, comes just in time.  CSA sugar snap peas have been waiting in the soil for this drenching.  Spring scallions and asparagus will start their migration upward now.  Pastures will sweeten and our 16 precious little lambs will grow positively fat on their mother's milk.  If there was ever a time to make the most of things, it is now...