« Beware of the Creature From the Black Lagoon Strategy | Choozyguy's Blog | Indiana and North Carolina: If you Don't Vote for Hillary Clinton My Puppy Will Die. Please Don't Kill My Puppy! »
Has Any of Us Noticed it's Spring?
How much time have you spent "offline" today? Try it? Start with an hour today and work your way up over the next few weeks. Don't let this campaign turn us all into zombies with bluish tans from the glow of our computer screens.
Dogwoods are blooming in my yard, and azaleas. Two Robins were bathing in my birdbath yesterday. What about where you live?
Advertisement
I've noticed. I went for a nice stroll down Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday (toward the Capital Building/away from the White House) and today, my allergies are kicking my butt!
Don't do it people! Stay in your homes! Buy some of that saran wrap Dick Cheney told us about! Tape up your windows and bar your doors!
April 25, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Spring. Yes, I know. I've been prepping the flower circles for planting and battling the weeds the last few days. Have the sunburn to prove it. (Note to self, install sunblock shower outside back door.)
April 25, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have noticed. All the college kids are out working for Barack, Daytona Beach is drying up.
But never fear the allergies, or anything else, the Wright Ayer on a high pressure wave, is coming down from Chicago.
It will clear your sinus and greatly improve your thought process. You will shortly be Rescoed from all your conundrums.
April 25, 2008 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
YOU ARE SO RIGHT! And the "O" that I have put on the back of my hand with indelible ink gets lots of questions and leads to lots of great conversations!
Staying off-line is so important, but not as important as tuning out the MSM!
April 25, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dude let me tell you about spring in Texas.
It's 86 today and the humidity is about 86%.
That's why I am inside. I will be inside until I leave for Taos.
Then you won't see much of me at all.
April 25, 2008 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yuck. Houston, we've always got that problem.
April 25, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I couldn't handle the humidity. It's 93 degrees in my backyard, 88 is the official degree for Los Angeles. I just finished installing an air conditioner, there's no way I'm spending another summer in this house working cross breezes on my windows.
As for the OP question, it's been "spring" since Jan. We're heading into summer this weekend.
April 25, 2008 6:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes..the cherry tree in my front yard just bloomed this week. And while working on a term paper on Robert Frost I came across this gem:
Oh, give us pleasure int he flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor the thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blosson in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.
-Robert Frost, "A Prayer In Spring"
And today I actually saw a TURKEY fly a couple of feet above my head...too late for Easter and too early for Thanksgiving!
April 25, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
My dog agrees with you so.
April 25, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Spring?? It snowed all week last week here in Seattle.
April 25, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
We have wide open windows and sweet breezes in Kentucky. White blossoms outside my bedroom window, pink ones out on the other side of the house, tulips by the porch, and brand new leaves showing up on the copper beech my husband planted for our 25th anniversary. Our part of Kentucky was grassland before Daniel Boone, and the grass usually turns rather brown if you don't water it--but the rain has turned the whole place green for the moment.
I've come to love this landscape and the people who share it, That's important when the polls are showing that my adopted state is singularly resistant to my preferred candidate for President. Talking and listening seem very much in order.
April 25, 2008 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lets see... two weeks ago it was snowing, and now I'm cutting the grass.
What spring? seems like the inbetween seasons are getting a lot shorter.
:(
April 26, 2008 11:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Spring?????? It's 32 degrees and snowing in Minneapolis.
April 26, 2008 2:02 PM | Reply | Permalink