It's Spring?

We are having miserable weather here in the Northwest and I can't help but think that a little sunshine would help my disposition - and everyone else's too. We certainly have the 'Spring Showers' part down, but the flowers? Not so much. Too wet and cold. Today I am at home worrying about flooding again. I am SO done with winter!

But, one makes compensations where one can (says the woman who orders a Diet Coke with her burgers and fries) and I do have a tree outside with buds on it, so... in came some sprigs, which managed to produce a nice bouquet. That Mark is allergic to blooming trees attests to our desperation to get a little 'life' in our lives.

Maybe the problem is that daylight savings time goes into effect so early now - it builds up our hopes! Maybe it is that we also have an interesting and fun project, building a little retaining wall and putting in a rose garden, just waiting for us outside, which we can't get to on account of the risk of just sinking in the mud if we go out in the yard. Maybe, having to resort to 'inside' projects off the bottom of the 'to-do' list (like trying to sculpt my spackle-patched door frame to make it look like the rest of the wood molding that was chewed up by some dog that lived here previously) is looking just a little pathetic on the 'worth-while' scale. It also could be my conscience telling me that a winter spent trying to perfect bread and brownie making techniques really MUST come to an end before WE do.

Anyway, here's to April - may it not carry us downstream!