food, crochet, merriment
Just on my way to teach class and felt compelled to snap a picture of that sky. This is what the weather man calls mostly sunny.
Ummmm….yeah.
Once I got to class it opened up into a full bore torrent. Sorry, but I didn’t get any pictures of the barrage. It felt smarter to just stay inside and wait for Noah to sail by.
Trust me when I say–it was wet–lovely and exciting, but very wet.
April showers…and all that jazz.
So, it’s April, and we have our green leaves and budding trees and flowers popping up all over the place and POOF!
We get this.
At first we thought that it was just a flukey little fly-by storm…
but it just kept stopping and starting, over and over…
for two days!
I kept thinking, “Oh, sure. NOW it snows.” Just when we’ve given up on any winter and started wearing flip flops.
Don’t get me wrong–our poor mountains can use the snow pack–we’ll take it. But we watched for snow. We begged for snow. We prayed for snow…3 months ago.
Mother Nature has a wicked sense of humor.
Sincerely.
100 Happy Days #39 
Ooooh, I’m snapping my camera as fast…
as…
I can.
Because all this pink magic, simply refuses to stay for long.
Only a few days actually.
And then no matter how much we whine and fuss, it all starts coming down.
Mother Nature– the lovely, luscious, litterbug.
Say that three times fast.
:]
We are sooo ready for this spring stuff to really truly get here and stay.
The trees are flowering…
and snowing petals everywhere.
The periwinkle is blooming all over the place…
and the crazy old blueberry bush has kicked back in.
So much of the yard is cooperating just as it should…
and the back grass is finally, FINALLY green.
Yesterday the Bald Kid tilled up the garden patch and dug in all the old weed control newspapers that were still hanging around from last year.
And I’m learning how to use my dad’s very cool composter to make our hard old Utah clay just a bit more wonderful.
Pretty proud of our compose in progress–oh, do be proud of me.
But the best part is that my little patch, the one that’s kinda mine, well, it’s getting an overhaul this week.
We’re pulling out all the weeds and any other odd things we find, thinning the strawberries and trimming back the roses and planting a few perennial flowers here and there just because we want to.
We’re pulling out the old broken wood border and replacing it with something…better (imagine me giggling my head off!).
Oh, we’re ready all right to go out there and get to work making it all beautiful and orderly and crisp and tidy and flowery…
tomorrow.
~sigh~
:}