I love writing down the date when there is a new month. There is something so wonderful about the fresh feeling I get when putting down the number 1 preceded by any month of the year. I think that just knowing that it was March 1st made me instantly feel better yesterday. The constant ache of my jaw and teeth along with the ever looming threat of a new headache seemed to vanish for awhile when I realized yesterday that it was a brand new month. Even the horrible winter weather outside couldn't keep me in the dumps. It was a great day where I was even able to accomplish some reading without feeling like my brain was getting crushed between two vice grips. The pain is already back today but at least I have yesterday to remember fondly.
I hope that everyone was able to enjoy the new month and the approaching promise of spring. It used to be that I waited for the first nice warm day outside before I called winter finished. Unfortunately when there is still two feet of snow and ice in your back yard a little bit of sun just doesn't quite cut it. This year my bench mark is the first daffodil that pops up. Even if it then gets covered in snow and ice the next day at least I will know that the weather is trying to behave.
What's your first official sign of spring? Does anyone feel that they've passed that benchmark? Who else is ready to strangle that little groundhog for promising an early spring?
Hi Lindsay! I sure hope your mouth is feeling better soon! I planted hundreds of daffodil bulbs this fall. I have been wanting to do it for a long time, but always put it off. Then I had a heart attack and realized I shouldn't put anything off anymore! So, hopefully, I will be getting a stunning display of daffs this spring. If the chippies didn't eat all the bulbs!
ReplyDeleteThe first thing in our yard that screams spring are the rhubarb plants in the corner of the garden. We have tulips in front of our house and along the fence. That gives us two crops of tulips. The ones warmed by the house come up and bloom about two weeks before the ones by the fence. Last fall Derek and I split all the tulip bulbs so I'm expecting great things this spring. These tulips were first planted 25 years ago when we moved into our home. They have been a hardy variety but we have also taken a lot of care in fertilizing and tending the beds. The first vegetable in the garden will be a green onion. It would be radishes, but Belinda and I have decided we don't like them well enough to plant them anymore. However, spring still seems a long ways off. This morning, the temperature was a cool minus five and the wind was howling, which made it feel a lot colder. I had been wearing a heavy jacket the last couple of weeks but I've now returned to my down-filled winter coat. When I had teeth problems, I found the best pain medicine was Advil. Hope you get to feeling better soon and that your wisdom teeth become a part of your past.
ReplyDeleteIt's still too cold for me to think about Spring. I will be happy with a week of temps above freezing. Maybe then I'll feel Spring will actually get here.
ReplyDeleteHi Penny! I've been so lucky to have daffodils without any of the work! The place that we are renting right now already had some planted and the house that we still own in Idaho came with tons of tulips and daffodils. We tried adding some Iris bulbs but they never came up. I hope that yours give you a wonderful spring and I'm sure that I'll see pics on your site when they do.
ReplyDeleteSteve-Yummy grunions! I love it when Randy and Jan make them with cream cheese and lunch meat! Dad and I up the recipe once by using pickled asparagus instead. So good! Last year we opted out of doing a garden but I missed having some fresh veggies that I didn't have to pay for. Good luck with your garden this year!
ReplyDeleteRandy-This cold snap is making Spring feel an eternity away! In North Dakota do you have to wait for May to get here just to feel warm? Ugg, Sorry Steve but I could never move there.
ReplyDeleteLindsay, if you saw my post on Facebook about North Dakota leading the nations in job creation, then you know that none of my in-laws in North Dakota want you to move here. Don't feel they are picking on you. They don't want anyone moving here. They are so small-minded. Something could change and they don't want that to happen. Somehow they want their kids to live in North Dakota but they don't jobs for anyone else. Well, that just won't work. That's why all of my brothers and sisters had to leave our hometown...no jobs, no opportunity. That's why North Dakota is known for exporting farm commodities, energy and our children to other states. Yeah, it's cold here, but guess what? It's colder in Regina, Winnipeg and Edmonton and they have more people in their cities than we do in the whole state. Just say'n.
ReplyDelete