As the weather starts to turn progressively warmer, and the days get progressively longer, I find myself itching to get outside and spring clean the yard. We’ve had a few trees die over the winter, and a few of the taller trees lost their tops due to high winds, so the yard is pretty sad looking right now. I’m planning to recruit a couple of neighborhood kids to come over and help pick up the sticks and limbs over the next couple of weekends. I’m going to pile them all up together on a brush pile and light it up when the spring cleaning is done. Outdoor fires are illegal around here until after 4pm; I’m guessing it’s because that is when the wind dies down, but it is a pain to have to wait that long in the day – a good fire doesn’t burn out by dark, and I don’t like staying up all night playing nursemaid to a fire. I guess I’ll have to take a nap earlier in the day so that I can stay up late the night that I burn the brush pile.
Seems like just a few days ago I was lamenting that spring would never get here! Yet, here it is – finally! I am looking forward to taking the snow tires off of the car and opening up the windows in the house to air out the place. It’s incredible how great the house smells when we can give it a good airing out! Soon we can dry our sheets outside on the line, too. Nothing smells better than sheets that have dried out in the fresh air! Welcome spring! I’ve missed you!
Well, today daylight savings time has begun! I wonder how many people showed up late for church today! Me, it didn’t affect me at all. Yet. It will hit me tomorrow, though. I don’t like the changing of the clocks, and I know that the farmers don’t like it either. I’ve heard people say it is for the farmers, but I remember my grandfather, who WAS a farmer until he died telling me that was a bunch of baloney, that the farmers don’t like it at all!
I have an old sports injury in my right knee that causes my knee to “go out” without warning sometimes. I injured myself many years ago in a karate class, I overextended my knee during a kick, and it has never been the same. Well anyway, this morning I got up out of bed and my knee went out. I lurched forward and caught myself with my hands, but I broke three toes on my right foot just the same. I had never broken any bones before, and so I was completely surprised by how painful it was! Well, it wasn’t too long before my entire foot turned black and blue so I went to the doctor who confirmed the broken toes and just taped them together. The doctor said that there really isn’t anything more that they do for broken toes. I figured that there would be some kind of splint! So now I’m hobbling around on crutches for the next few weeks, and I am very annoyed over the entire situation!
General life, Home and Garden | Dean | 
March 30, 2009 12:37 pm | 
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