Play day

I'm looking forward to this weekend.  I have tomorrow off. Yea!

I got a head start on the weekend by playing around with my blog this evening.  Yea! again.

This week the weather has been extremely nice--a little foggy--in the forties even.  Spring is definitely on the way.

Along with spring comes a list of dreadful things I need to get done.  Dreadful only in that I am dreading doing them not that they are dreadful in and of themselves.

1. Clean the basement (blech)
2. Scrape the paint off the garage & the porch awnings
3. Paint the garage & porch awnings
4. Clean out the gutters
5. Wash the siding on the house

But tomorrow is my day off so I'm not going to think about it . . . much.

My lilac's a-bloomin'

Take a breath and dive right in

Last week I took a little break from blogging. (I don't like to do that because once I stop I may never start again.) The next few weeks I may have some laconic* posts.

I have a busy month:

• I have started teaching my Computers for Older Adults class again
  
  
• I am cleaning out the Pit to make it bedroom-ready
  
  
• I am sorting furniture for a garage sale (to be held at a later date -- I have no time right now!) :-)
  
  
• I am priming and painting 2 bedrooms
  
  
• I am moving my bedroom
  
  
• I am moving a friend in

And those are only the activities extraordinary to my daily life!

Busyness can be a blessing, right?

One consolation . . .

. . . SPRING is almost here!

*added to Locution List

Animal Menagerie

These are some baby robins that were living on my friends balcony this spring.

Cleo enjoying the spring weather . . .

Signs of spring

I have been meaning to get some photos and video up on my blog but the couple times I tried they wouldn't up load so they will still be coming.

Even though it hasn't quite felt like spring yet (only one day in the immediate past that was warmer than 70 degrees), there are signs around.

Yesterday I was looking out my window as I was getting ready for work and I saw a mother robin instructing her baby robin on the finer points of worm-hunting.

I could tell it was a baby robin because its feathers were all puffed out and its head was still sitting on its neck. No rubber-necking yet.

And every time I step out doors I smell lilacs!

Smells of spring

Walking to and from work today, I enjoyed the smells around me. The lilacs are just starting to bloom. Lilacs are one of my favorite smells!

A couple people were mowing their lawns. I don't know what it is about freshly mown lawn that I enjoy so much. Maybe it's just the freshness of it. Or maybe it reminds me of the smell of freshely mown hay -- a sentimental odor. Who knows!

I can hardly wait for the peonies to pop out. That is one of my all-time favorite smells!

Vegetable gardening

This summer I am growing some vegetables in my parents garden to freeze and can.


Some baby green beans . . .

And baby zucchini . . .

I'm also growing some corn and some broccoli. Yummy!

Party central

This past weekend was graduation. I went to 4 open houses and worked at one of them.

Yesterday's was island themed. Everyone got a lei.

I gave mine to Cleo.

She seems to like it. :-)

Poppin' so no more peepin'

The leaves are finally popping out on the trees in my front yard. So now I don't have to worry my neighbors peering at the trees out front.


BTW -- Ignore the poor quality, I wasn't paying attention to my camera settings. :-P

It is actually a beautiful sunny day and there was not a blue tint in the air!

Almost perfect

The last couple day have been almost perfect. The temperature has been just right and there has been little or no humidity. I waited to rain yesterday until after dark.

It seems that once the weather turns spring-like we all crawl out of our hidey-holes and walk everywhere.

Yesterday afternoon I was walking home from work and a block ahead of me I saw a mother and her two daughters walking with a stroller and their dog. Apparently the youngest was extremely impatient for summer because she was "wading" through the water running down the gutter.

Just after I passed them, I heard the mother scolding her daughter . . . "No! Keep your clothes on!"

Very impatient little girl. :-)

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

It as finally reached a temperature above 50 degrees! Actually I think it is close to 70 today!

I am gonna go home and either start raking out one of my flower beds or start cleaning out my garage. I haven't decided yet. Such decisions . . .