What a difference a week can make, right? Last weekend: snowed in. This weekend: signs of spring are everywhere.
Signs of early spring I noticed yesterday:
- The trailer was warm enough to open the windows.
- The hundreds of gallons of water in the form of ice crystals covering the landscape was transforming back into its liquified form. In town, this meant there were several teams of town employees pumping out ditches in danger of flooding the road--or the trailer park. Oops! Too late for the trailer park! It was a lake!
- No coats, no winter boots, bare arms.
- Lineups at the car washes in town around the block. (I decided to wash my van another time.)
- The snow in my yard was soft enough that a half-hour or so of shovelling revealed the walkway that disappeared about three weeks ago in winter's final death throes.
- The sudden urge I felt to buy a place setting for ten of polka-dotted melamine dishes, a matching pitcher, and a salad spinner, with the intent of making our summer entertaining much more comfortable this year.
- The also-sudden urge to go find picnic table plans, with the same intent as the last point.
Not teaching all day meant that I got to take a walk in the sunshine, and also succumb to another Sudden Urge--spring cleaning!
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Hope everyone gets to feeling better. The last couple of days have been beautiful with temps in the upper 70's
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See, that's the kind of information I don't need to know! ;-)
ReplyDeleteJust kidding, Richie. I torture myself by having Mena's current temperature displayed in my lower task bar. I'm not sure why!
Most everyone's better--still a nagging cough. Thanks for dropping by!
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