The 20th of March was the official start of Spring and to that I say "Phooey" why so harsh, well it's now the 25th of April and it's just beginning ( I'm talking minute ) to show some signs of the season. Now I've heard all the excuses "It's New England" - "We've had cold Springs in the Past" - "At least it's not January and 20 below" yada, yada, yada I don't care, I'm sick of snow, sleet and most of all the cold.
Funny part about this is that the actual Winter months were better than the Spring we are supposed to be experiencing right now, go figure.
This rant has been building since March (you know when Spring officially arrived) when I began talking about sprucing up our front porch. The porch is enclosed and the main entrance to our house, now I didn't want to do a complete makeover or anything just a few little things, starting with putting away the boots, shovels and containers of salt.
The problem was that every time I mentioned this to my husband it would snow, I'm not kidding every time within 24hrs the white stuff would fall. Guess I really need to learn to keep my thoughts to myself.
Well, I was not going to be defeated so I held back on removing the snow removing stuff and focused on what I wanted to purchase (As I'm sure you've guessed this was also a mistake) and I decided on just a few simple items. The first was an adorable little white resin bunny and a mini boxwood candle ring for him to sit in, this was going into a large black candle lantern that hangs next to the front door.
Of course you already know that as soon as I ordered these items it snowed and the day after they were delivered it snowed (this could have been the plot of a new comedy sitcom) again. But hang on it gets even funnier (well maybe to you not me) I decided to wait just a bit before ordering anything else and eventually decided it was safe (that's turned out to be a real "Duh" for me) so I purchased two new pillow covers for the wicker chairs and a new rug and if you guessed that it snowed again well ding-ding you win the prize.
OK so let's fast forward to a week ago, we went to Wal-Mart and I bought stuff to make a new wreath for the front door and two small clay pots to put in the windows (please keep in mind that it has not snowed for a bit up to this point) and the next day said "That's it, I'm cleaning and fixing up the porch".
So this is what I did, spent the entire day washing windows, washing the walls and baseboards, vacuuming, putting on the new covers and making the wreath oh, before all of that I put all the snow stuff (except for one container of salt) in the basement. It was actually a pretty nice day I even had the windows open, I was tired after everything was completed but it was fun and everything looked really good.
Unfortunately my happy mood didn't last because (and again I'm not kidding) the next day it got really cold again and we had sleet all day. My husband thinking he was funny said to me several times that day "Gee, wish I had a shovel" you can trust me when I say I didn't see the humor but in the end I have to admit I did laugh what else was there to do.
I have to say that so far this week it has been nice, the sun has been out and we've had the windows in the house open (I probably should not say anything) and also did a little work on the flower beds. I'm going to try and stay positive and hopeful that Spring really is finally appearing but who knows. All I do know is that I'm still watching the sky with skepticism.
Happy Spring - Maybe
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