Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Too much to do, too little time

Seems like it happens every year at this time here in Bonner County. We come out of the winter cocoon and see work everywhere. We also know that if we waste even a few minutes, we're gonna get behind because the grass will grow and the weeds will multiply.

And, while we're outside tending to all that, the house is getting piled hire and deeper. Dishes gather in the sink. The mail stack, with all those catalogs and offers for us to donate to three thousand causes, grows so high it falls over and creates a new mail pile. Dust grows. Outside dirt and mud burrow into the carpets.

A rainy day will solve that, we figure, so we just continue to go at it hard outside, even in the rain sometimes. I spent a good share of my day outside yesterday, planting spuds, transplanting tomatoes, dropping seeds in new pots, raking out flower beds, scooping up piles of flower bed debris and trying to get a fire to burn. All the leaves and grass burned but not the wood which has been sitting there since before we moved here. Guess I'll have to wait for dryer weather and try it again.

Anyway, the moral to this story is simple: when spring comes to North Idaho, don't waste it. So, that's my excuse for not writing much today. Can't wait to get back out there and play in the dirt.

Have a good day, and Happy Birthday to Bootsie. He's that old goat who does cartoons with horses and stuff. Today he's an older goat but lovable in spite of it all.

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