What a wonderful surprise to discover these crocuses in full bloom yesterday afternoon.
I hadn't even thought about looking for crocuses yet, but the past few warm days must have invited them to burst out in all their beauty.
I had just spent about an hour painting the board fence south of the house and was walking back to the house when my eye caught them.
It wasn't long before I was back with my iPhone to capture the scene.
I guess we can say that spring has come, both on the calendar and in the flower beds.
YAY!
It was a wonderful weekend, wearing fewer layers and soaking up sun while making some good time on outdoor beautification projects.
That progress happened, thanks to spray-paint cans and brushes. Bird houses received an added touch of color.
Meanwhile, the brushes, including a new one Bill brought for me, covered the most territory on fence boards.
To walk away from that fence painting project and discover those crocuses was truly frosting on the cake.
I must also mention that Bill spent some of his weekend indoors, organizing the tax records. Yesterday afternoon I walked in the house to see neat piles, each with a labeled post-it note, laid out on the kitchen island.
Bill, after all these years, has the process down to a science, and for that I am grateful. Soon, we'll find out this year's bad news.
Annual tax organization is probably only palatable because it's spring when we need every means of uplifting to go along with the anxiety of how high the tax bill is gonna be this year.
Back to beautifying, I must talk this morning about Vicki Verwolf Henry.
She's a local, and she lives in the Selle area.
This is not the first year I've seen her quietly walking the ditches along Selle Road, with her bag and her picker.
Vicki takes on the annual project of cleaning up the garbage that's been strewn along Selle Road over the year, and there's plenty.
When I stopped the other day and told her "thank you," she smiled and told me that, for her, it all revolves around Earth Day.
Therefore, many of her days leading up to the annual environmental reminder are spent removing the ugly roadside scenes others have created by throwing cans and wrappers and bottles and such out their car windows.
Vicki also volunteers a couple of times each week at the Bonner Community Food Bank. She told me she also works a soup kitchen.
An unsung quiet hero, if you ask me.
Thank you, Vicki.
I hope, by pointing out your selfless good deeds, to inspire similar efforts and, of course, appreciation.
This is one of my sisters' barn cats.
It was perched in their barn hay loft opening yesterday when I took some stuff for CB to their horse trailer.
Today is the day that CB will go off to school---I'm thinking it's maybe middle school or high school for him because he's done his early years of training.
This time he'll be going to a stable at State Line, Idaho, where our family friend Monty is training horses.
Conditioning and reinforcement of his gaits and other basic maneuvers will be highlighted in the lesson plan.
He's already been well started, but I'm sure he'll be a better looking and a better trained young man when the one-month session ends.
I'm excited.
So, the essentials for his stay are loaded in the horse trailer and later, we'll load him up and he'll be saying good bye to Lily and Lefty for a month.
Lily and Lefty will be coming home to the Lovestead next week, so life will be changing dramatically around here, including the fact that Bridie will have to change her focus from visiting deer to horses in the barnyard.
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This morning, on his new podcast series "The Person Who Believed in Me," David Begnaud interviews Charlie Puth (performing at the piano on the video below).
It's a raw and very honest interview and definitely worth the listen, especially for music lovers.
And, so it goes!
Happy Monday from beautiful Selle.
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