It's still Spring

Nice day, lots of green and growing things.  Neighbors took another of my fake Daffodils last night.  If I play my cards right I can decorate the whole neighborhood with fake flowers.  I've been trying to think of something that I can put on the stems so they will stain when handled...I can play tricks too LOL.

Test was normal, I would have been very surprised if it wasn't as I am a dairy eater from birth.

Furnace will be installed tomorrow barring anything unforseen.

Looks like rain.  I have the windows open isn't that something.  Seems like a minute ago it was below zero around here.

Wading

Too frail to swim, she nonetheless
Gingerly lifts her cotton dress
Clear of the lake, so she can wade
Where the descending sun has laid
A net of rippling, molten bands
Across the underwater sands.

Her toes dig, curling, in the cool
And fine-grained bottom; minnows school
Before her, tautly unified
In their suspended flash -and-glide;
Blue-brilliantly, a dragonfly
Encounters and skims round her thigh.

Despite age, all this still occurs.
The sun's companionably hers.
Its warmth suffusing blood and flesh,
While its light casts the mobile mesh
Whose glowing cords she swam among
In summertime when she was young.

 

My furnace went out last night.  I am so thankful that it waited until that terrible winter was over.  It's a little cold but I have a room heater and heated mattress pads and was thinking of baking something to warm up the kitchen...but I changed my mind...too drastic LOL.

Have a pneumonia shot and a bone density test tomorrow and thanks to Deb's blog I know what to expect and what the numbers should be.  Hope mine are good.  I wonder if I will know right away what they are.

Going to the boutique tomorrow and toys r us.  Need a blanket for Anne Frank for Spring with a pretty flower design.  Need to get a gift for Ethin's birthday and David's baby shower.

Stopped by work today (old work) to pick up some chocolate eggs I ordered for Easter and everyone was happy to see me.  Nice to see them too.

Friday morning I will be getting a new furnace.

Early to bed.  Didn't sleep too good last night after the furnace went out.

 

Old friends

What a great day.  I met some old friends for lunch. I finished boiling down my Maple sap for syrup (MMMM MMMM).  I used a covered juice bottle to catch it, I figured a pail was too open.  I caught about a gallon so far and boiled it down.  How delicious it is. It's cold so I did some inside cleaning today.  I have two chapters left in my online audio book so I'm off to finish that and maybe play a little of a game.  My refrigerator and freezer are all cleaned out...no more freezer burn, no more blue fuzz LOL!  Have to either mail off my taxes or find a place on line that I can send them.  I used to get my taxes in, in January but now that I have to pay in, I wait.  You should see my yard there are hundreds of Daffodil buds ready to bloom, it must be the perfect spring for them.

 

Tags: Wordsworth, Maple Sugaring, Daffodils, Old friends

First Gardening Day

I uncovered my big raised bed and a couple other raised beds next to the house and garage and Mrs. Cardinal brought all her friends and they sat on one of the clotheslines and watched me.  They looked lovely all dressed up with their pretty orange lipstick.

I downloaded a library book called

Leeway Cottage by Beth Gutcheon

I listened to the first chapter and it is very good.  It's a novel and I can keep it for seven days.  I can get four book at a time but usually only get one. 

 A beautiful warm sunny day today.  I can smell delicious things cooking on grills.  I, myself, had a small Home Run Pizza cooked in the microwave and an orange...10 WW points.  My favorite pizza.

I am so very lucky to be coming into Spring and Summer.  I made it through another winter much to my surprise.  All my tests were not only negative but exceptionally good, so the doctor said. 

Looked forward all winter to getting back to gardening but it is still a darn hard job that produces sore muscles, but firms up the body and makes the heart strong too.

The picture was taken by my daughter of me and Owen when we were at Murphy Park on Saturday. 

Keep on the sunny side!

Tags: Gardening, grandson, grilling out,

Crocus

I'm filing my taxes and looked out the window and there in the feeder are Mama and Daddy Cardinal, a little group of House Finches and two pairs of Mourning Doves.  Over by the Pine tree there is a gathering of Sparrows busy building nests.  The squirrels are busy in the yard and scampering up and down the two story tree trunk playing tag.  Back by last years Christmas tree  in a little ground nest are a couple rabbits...maybe Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter.  Even Anne Frank is outside sleeping in the sun.  A nice warm breeze is coming in the window.  Oh, I just noticed another squirrel asleep on top of the Bluebird house.  I love my yard, wish I could pick it up and move it to the country.  I hope anyone that comes by is having a peaceful and pleasant Sunday.

A perfect Spring day

The Sheets


From breezeway or through front porch screen
You'd see the sheets, wide blocks of white
Defined against a backdrop of
A field whose grasses were a green
Intensity of light.


How fresh they looked there on the line,
Their laundered sweetness through the hours
Gathered richly in the air
While cumulus clouds gathered in
Topheavily piled towers.


We children tightroped the low walls
Along the garden; bush and bough
And the washed sheets moved in the wind
And thinking of this now recalls
Vasari's tale of how


Young Leonardo, charmed of sight
Would buy in the loud marketplace
Caged birds and set them free--thus yielding
Back to the air that gave him light
Lost beauty and lost grace.


So with the sheets; for as they drew
Clear warming sunlight from the sky
They gave to light their rich, clean scent.
And when, the long day nearly through
My cousin Anne and I


Would take the sheets down from the line
We'd fold in baskets their crisp heat
Absorbing , as they had , the fine
Steady exchange of earth and sky,
Material and sweet.

    ...Timothy Steele

It's Spring Again

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

        Robert Frost