spring…a long time coming
Spring arrived last week and winter decided it wasn’t quite ready to loosen its grip on us just yet. Last week, we had 70 degree weather, I was in a skirt, t-shirt and sandals and yesterday…it snowed. As is usually the case in last March in Kansas. Heck, March in the midwest always seems to tease us with lovely spring-like weather only to remind us that it’s not quite spring…yet!
Our front yard has been lovely to come home to with brightly colored daffodils and crocus. For days on end, I would arrive home only to get the camera and rush out to take photos of the newly bloomed crocus. All of the hard work planting over 100 bulbs last fall has definitely paid off. It’s such a lovely surprise to see what color crocus pops up where since I didn’t keep track of what I planted where. I’m anxious to see what tulips come up in the next few weeks. Our little vegetable garden has started to grow, mostly in our basement. We have peppers, tomatoes started and lettuce in the garden outside. We’re paring back a bit from last year were we were overwhelmed with weeds. This year we’re starting more outside and allowing more space for the squash and lettuce in the garden.
Our other big project going on is we decided we’d had enough of the wallpaper in our bathroom. We moved into my late aunt’s house who had great taste. She was very into Asian decorating after having visited many countries in Asia but her style just isn’t our style. So we tried our hand at our first DIY home improvement project this weekend and stripped the wallpaper in the bathroom. It was a learning experience and we’re hoping to paint this weekend after we repair a few patches in the walls. We learned a lot this weekend for future projects, one very important one is that several trips to the hardware store should be expected. We also learned how to disconnect the light fixture on the wall. We’re shopping for a new light fixture since the old one we don’t even want to put back up. It was too unwieldy and we don’t want to have to take it down again.
Of course after we finished stripping the bathroom, we started talking about doing our office and bedroom. It will be a while but it hasn’t stopped me from picking up paint chips when we’re at the hardware stores.
Image from goodreads.com
Finally, I can’t end this post without telling you, as I’ve told nearly everyone I talk to, about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I read and listen to so many books that few affect me the way this book has. I feel I’m mildly obsessed with this book and I am having a hard time finding my next book. Usually when I listen to an audiobook, I listen to it during my commute and once in a while during lunch. With this book, I listened to it while I was fixing and eating breakfast and any other time I could find to listen. Rarely do I finish a 12 1/2 hour book in five days. I’ll let you read the description of the book and reviews as I don’t feel as though my review does it justice.
May spring be with us all soon. It’s been a long, hard winter.
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