Spring Anew!

The First Day of Spring!

This year, as in others I am sure, Spring decided to arrive
in her winter coat!
She came in with Fur and Muff and High boots...like a Fancy Lady
all Decked out for a Winter Party.

She danced in and around and around and twirled and flounced
and bounded across the States of the Midwest like She owned them
(as you know, she does).

For 2 days now She has darted and weaved and blown from here
to there and back home again doing what Mother Nature and Spring
are so very good at doing.

She messed up and covered up and laid moisture where it was well
needed in a way that she has not done since the start of this
Winter last year.

Lucky for us, we planned on staying in just in case such a
thing happened.

Though we were only supposed to get a covering to about an inch,
the dear Mother decided to show those Weather Navens a thing or
two and to remind us that Computers can only give an estimated
track and arrival. They still miss once in a while....this too
is Mother Nature's Whim.
(Isn't she Grand? I am glad she can still fool us!)

St. Patrick's Day is just past and we had not had very much
accumulation of snow all winter. We have been lucky in this
area of the state in that we have gotten
more rain than snow.

I have to admit how pretty things are, and how nicely the
snow came down.

It was a pretty snow, a heavy snow, and a very wet moist snow.
The kind that makes sloppy wet snowmen and Snowsuits get
drenched in and Mittens won't stay dry in.

But, Oh what fun it can be if one does not have to
get out and travel in it!

This will also give us something to remember as Spring stops
teasing us and finally arrives. May She soon shed that Coat
and let us see her in all her Spring Glory!

The Robins are back and I bet they are going "What the?" right
about now.

The tulips are up about 2 inches, so Spring cannot be far behind.

We will have double again the tulips we had Spring before last.
The last Spring, frost got them and they did not produce
very well. I have many pictures of the year before to remember,
so that will help again! Remembering is such fun, right?

The Sun is trying to come out now, and the temperature is
climbing slowly up from the 27 degree low it gave us this
morning. It snowed all night and afternoon yesterday.
Then this morning it snowed until around Ten A.M.

Hubby stayed home and Daughters all were safe with their
families, so I did not need to worry about that sort of thing.
We have become pretty good hermits when the roads get bad
anymore. No venturing out unless there is some Dire need,
and that seldom happens.

I often worry about what if someone would have to journey to
the Hospital or some such in Storms like these. Schools were
delayed this morning, but did not hear of many Cancellations.

Jodee and Tyler stayed home yesterday and had a "Snow Day".
It is nice to watch my Children raising their Children. It is good
to see the Happiness second hand that I remember first hand from
when my 3 Lovely Daughters were babies and young children.

Lacey and Scott were very very Happy to return homw to be with
Hunter. Soon they will be building Snowmen too!

Jesse and Todd will have to venture out to have a
Snowball fight and Sweep the Walks together.

This Spring will be a NEW Glory for me. I will again be able
to FEEL things that I had become Numb to and did not
even realize it.

My Health has become an issue, and I will do everything in
my power to regain my fitness level. I would say like when
I was young, but I am in better shape now than I ever was
way back then. I will take care of my Heart AND Mind.

I have taken an interest in my writing again. I want to follow
through on this now because I have been inspired and feel
the "need", the "lust", and the Passion to put down on paper
what goes around in my Head.

Whatever happens, it will be for the good of my Family and myself
that I take this journey, whether successful or not. I will be so
by just writing and feeling good about the process.

Yes, deep down inside I still question my talents. But, from what
I have been reading, even the most successful artists sometimes,
maybe all the time, have these feelings of Self Doubt.

I remember hearing that the only real failure is the failure to try.
That will become my Mantra.

I TRY!

At Last!

Spring is here in my HEART also!

Good luck my Dear Friends, until we meet again!

Take time to Hug youself today, you deserve it!

Katie

Spring Rain (written March 26th of 2004)

I sit here wondering If Spring will ever come...and now finally I begin to see signs....the grass is greening, the Robins have returned....and at last the days are warming up....from 30 to 50 wahooo!

The flowers are struggling to break through the hardened winter ground, and succeeding at last to do so.

THe dogw will go outside and be willing to stay for awhile without barking and wanting back in....

I have hopes of no more snow this year...but past years have proven that we may have snow well into April.

I tried to deny the last Snowstorma nd that didn't stop it, just made me totally unprepared and lost while drivng in it. I made my destination safely but had some nerves to calm down afterwards.

Luckily it did not last very long this year. No blowing or closing of schools as in past winters.

Today is warm but foggy and it is raining. This is what makes flowers grow and Spring come and Winter go away......I think as I sit and find the positive slant on things....like the old song said, accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative...

I WILL the glass to be half full again, no more half emtpy.

See you next time My friends