Spring.

Gone are lazy nights by the fire rereading long lost books, listening to soft jazz with a warm toddy by your side, while nestled in your favorite chair.The cat stretched out behind your head, playing with your hair. Your dog lays on his back while gently running in his sleep, yipping softly at a memory. Sigh ……

Gone, replaced by the Spring you thought would never come. OH and  how you complained, “Will it never get here? Isn’t this the longest winter ever? Have we talked about nothing but the weather for months?”

Well girlfriend your lounging days are over and now it’s,” Paint the porch, fix the roof, update the kitchen! You need to change the winter tires, and the oil, heck the truck needs a spring tune up! The weed whacker died last fall and so did the BBQ, they must be replaced. The outside trim must be repainted and the roof reshingled! The house needs to be cleaned from top to bottom. Empty the  closets and drawers where gloves and small cans of de-icer got stuffed. Pack away the boots and the winter coats, unpack the sandals and garden gloves.  ”

The garden , “Oh the garden, where do I start?, What do I plant?, Have you seen the new seed catalogue? I think this year I need a pond, a big pond with water lilies and Koi and…”
Yes indeedy, Spring is here to stay. And we work so hard to get all those projects done so we can relax through the long hazy days of summer. At least that is what we fool ourselves into thinking.  Before my brain and budget have adapted to the first weeks of Spring Cleaning, I have  forgotten  my complaints of the long winter.

Now I pray for summer, when it’s too hot to cut the grass. Too humid to paint the deck. Too many hours at work to go camping, but enough to pay down the credit card where I charged all those plants.

All those plants that I buy too early and leave sitting on the porch, while I weed the garden, rebuild the window boxes, replace the soil, install new patio stones, put up the humming bird feeder, take down the winter bird feeder, rotto till the garden, replace the garden hose, rebuild the wood shed, put the snow shovels away, paint the garden tools, restarted the compost heap……………….

Spring, glorious spring

Slideshow by WebFey aka Sherryl French