This is for my faithful reader(s). I already wrote once today but I can't let poor blogger go unattended again today.

Spring is well and truly here. After a rather dry spring last year, today's cloudbursts and rumbles have been so welcome. Perhaps this year we won't end up a foot under the average rainfall for the year.

My son began scalping our lawn toward the end of last week. He and his dad actually managed to get slight sunburns. Time to drag out the sunscreen again. Yay! For solar powered people like me it is such a blessing. In fact I was standing in my kitchen just yesterday saying to myself, I don't have to look outside to know it's lovely. My bones feel it. My mind and hands and heart are ready to wake up and take on new projects. This month is going to be an absolute zoo, and you know what? I don't care. I'm ready. I can feel sunshine, heat and it's firing me up.

I kept getting distracted by all the seed and bulb packets at the checkout counter at WalMart yesterday too. I can start planning my flower containers for this season. Wahoo! My hands are looking forward to being in the ground.

My house is a disaster area. It doesn't matter what room you go in, there's a lot of something there that isn't where it belongs. And you know--I'm in the mood to THROW THINGS OUT! Or rather--give things away. It's time to lighten up and move on.

My sister's wedding is in a week and a half, which means my anniversary is about two weeks away. No plans. Actually I'm saving up for next year. The big two - oh. :) I think we deserve a medal. LOL! This has not been an easy thing to keep going, but has it been worth it. Yes, yes, yes. A thousand times yes. I have a teenager I love to be with and a pre-teen who still likes to give me hugs, and you know--there's no telling how different it would be had we given up those times when we felt sure there was nothing we could do to salvage things. It's never hopeless. You just have to have to tools to work with, two people who are willing to work, and the fact that you're both going to have to answer for whatever decisions you make (and their consequences) to someone who is expecting you to follow His guidelines. It can be done. And easy outs aren't always the best solution.

Oh, listen to the birds! They are everywhere--from huge black cawing crows to small finches who still have their reddish feathers. I woke up hearing them a few mornings ago and felt that same uplift that I did in the kitchen feeling the sunshine. I always tell myself if I can just get through February everything will be okay.

So here it is--a whole lot of nothing. Fingers and mind rambling and catching it in the butterfly net in hopes that something here will be worth pinning down and studying for future use. Right now, the ham in my oven is calling me to peek at it. It's sending warm, salty vibes right to my nose. :) And then there's the tax file glaring at me from across the room. And Abe's school portfolio information that should have been in the mail months ago. I am soooooooooo behind in so many things except for the writing. Can you believe it? The Cup of Comfort entry was a bust--would have known about that by the 1st of March. And the 24 hour short story results are in--door prize, no placement. But no problem. I didn't expect anything. That story was truly insane. I don't think I could show it to anyone else without a loaded gun to my head. LOL! The rest are still pending, perhaps in need of follow-up. Need to check January's sheet....

Okay, I'm really going now. It's been fun typing to ya!