Return of the Jedi...

I am back...my computer fully functional again (finally). It's been a long time. I have been up, and down...elated, and devastated. Life goes on. It's good to be back.

Sprung!

It is absurd how the blooms are just exploding into being--like popcorn, really...I think everything will bloom at once this year...it will be positively obscene!

What a change 48 hours can make...blue skies, warm sun, spring in the air...and my first full day off. I love it. I think this working 4 days a week is going to agree with me.

In like a lion...

Well, despite my earlier optimism that spring was just around the corner (after all, it WAS 74 degrees here yesterday) March has arrived with a bang. SNOW! Huge, juicy globs of it all over everything much to the delight of the kids both young and old. I knew it was coming, not because of the predictions on the news or in the paper--neither of which I look at--but because I got the early weather warning alert this morning from my mother in Alabama, who had awakened indignantly to at least 2 inches of the "horrible mess".

So, I spent a lovely day in the kitchen making soups, biscuits and cookies, and wiping up melted puddles while my kids and their friends alternately played outside and warmed by the fire while playing Guitar Hero. It was delightful. A houseful of warm chaos.

So now I am counting on it going out like a lamb--in all aspects. You listening, March?