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| First daffodil to bloom here at the Lovestead in Spring, 2021. |
It's amazing what a little sunshine and some raking will do for the landscape this time of year.
Usually when I rake, I'm getting rid of dead stuff on top of dying grass or in a flower bed that has begun hibernation.
Yesterday's raking session, however, reaped a whole assortment of exciting life underneath the winter's layer of dead grass and leaves.
One swath might expose a clump of iddy biddy lupine plants while another might reveal a variety of unnamed perennials planted several years ago in the giant beds across the yard from our deck.
Usually, I can rake so long and then feel the need to drop the rake and go on to something else.
Yesterday's session, though, was filled with the discovery of so many little floral treasures that I just kept going.
Spring has come, and a little raking, along with the welcome sunshine and warmth expected to hang around for a week, is providing just the jumpstart needed to quickly transform the place into a myriad of delightful colors.
We also know from inhabitants in the fields around the neighborhood that spring has come along with the sudden appearance hundreds of deer.
I told Bill last night we were surrounded, as I looked out an east window and saw half a dozen in the Taylor's field across the road.
When I went to the kitchen sink, I could see two or three lurking in the hayfield on the west side of the house.
A trip to Colburn also meant a quick stop to take pictures of several deer grazing in a farm field.
They're here! And, that means "the deer will be watching us" and eating our flowers.
So, those baskets on my newly painted flower bed came to the deck to spend the night.
Stating that it's a lovely day in the neighborhood will likely be repeated several times in the next week.
No complaining here. We have been gifted with a lovely dose of spring.
Happy Wednesay.
And here we have Idaho, Winning her way to SHAME . . . . Ah, proudly too!
Now, for the "you can't make this stuff up" category: this kind of stuff happens when people who should know better just make stuff up!
Please read the entire story in the link below.
Will all the Idaho public educators teaching "critical race theory" please stand up?
I'm guessing that many of Idaho's public school teachers never knew what "critical race theorists" were until their raise was voted down yesterday.
Now, they are one!
If you appreciate what your teachers are doing in the classrooms and with all their extracurricular responsibilities, please mask up, meet up with them and give them a passionate fist bump, some TLC and a heartfelt thank you.
The unwarranted slap in the face issued to Idaho's public school teachers with yesterday's Legislative vote---based on dogma and highly questionable assertions about what is happening in school classrooms----is probably still stinging.
My question. How many public school classrooms around the state did these legislators visit before making their decision to vote NO?
Dedicated professional educators and their support staffs throughout the state stepped up to the plate in difficult and challenging situations during this Pandemic year to maintain some semblance of normal for Idaho's youth.
They deserve better.
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