Monday, March 18, 2013

Spring Scenes








Our daily schedule kinda resembles the weather of March in North Idaho:  a little bit of everything.

Yesterday, my little bit of everything included making stew, practicing my Irish tune, taking dogs for romps, visiting my mother, watching Selection Sunday (and wishing that one Gottlieb guy who disses Gonzaga would zip it), feeding on stew and sourdough bread and cake and ice cream and finally working off the stew and cake and ice cream with a pleasant early-evening bike ride. 

Yesterday's weather included a blanket of snow, some rain and even some lovely sunshine for the evening bike ride. 

So, March definitely does offer a potpourri in more ways than weather. 

March Madness, baskeball style,  begins this week.  We're thrilled that Gonzaga (who plays no one of importance and whose No. 1 ranking in the polls is just like Notre Dame's No. 1 finish in NCAA football polls,  according to Gottlieb) earned a No. 1 seed. 

Fortunately, the ZAGS do have some believers among the pundit crowd, even Charles Barkley.  

After all the B.S. ends, the final score of each game will sort out, support or dispel all that we've heard in the past couple of weeks in basketball prognostication. 

My bike ride down Woodside Road,  with the sun still above the mountains casting some wonderful evening light,  helped me forget the Selection Sunday B.S. and tune in to the sights and sounds of spring.  

It's coming.  Grass is turning green.  Snow is all but gone, 'cept for the shady spots. Standing water is sinking into the ground.  Gates are waiting and ready for when Woods lock off pastures from their cattle herds. 

And, even at the Love house, before we know it, that hill of snow which slid from the storage-shed roof will melt, and those lawnmowers will come out of their winter slumber for another busy season.

When I see night temperatures in the high 30s, the greenhouse will go into full-time action.  Too many 20-somethings on the ten-day forecast, so I'll keep the plants inside for now.

A busy but good time, and from now on, we can be happy because the landscape is gonna continue to reveal its North Idaho eye candy.  How sweet it is!

Happy Monday.   Oh, and one more thing:  this is for Mr. Gottlieb and all other ZAGS cynics.


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