Something Creative
So another month has passed…it’s almost truly spring here in Minnesota. The grass is turning emerald green now. Lush with the promise of warmer days, our lawn is fast approaching the stage where we must mow for the first time. Our birdfeeder has been very busy the last few days. We’ve even been able to see new birds this year. My favorite is the chickadee…I love the “feebee” call it makes. I’ve found if I whistle in reply I can get the chickadees to “talk” to me. It always makes me smile.
I completely gave up on my workout this past month. First I had tweeked my back & needed to rest it before I did anything. Then when that healed I was just plain tired & stressed from work. Basically I’ve managed to find an excuse not to work out all month. I have done a lot of walking, hiking & throwing the nephews around so I’ve counted that as my exercise for the month. I’m going to get back to it in May.
We celebrated a wedding in the extended family on the 25th. I played photographer & it was good fun. We also celebrated my dad’s birthday with a great day of family, food & fun. It’s always good to get together with everybody & laugh. We tell our wild stories & memories with much joy.
Recently we’ve gotten letters from my bro-in-law who is at boot camp in Fort Knox, Kentucky. He’s managing ok. Not quite what he thought it would be…and he misses his family something fierce. We are proud of him for working so hard but cannot wait for him to come home! We will be having the biggest party ever when he does come back to his family.
Other than that life continues to be interesting. I picked up some great books of poetry & will be reading them for some time. I read some Chaucer for the month of April (I did slack a bit toward the end but will finish soon) and thoroughly enjoyed it. I am doing some freelance editing for an online magazine. I continue to write here & have other irons in the fire as it were. All in all I’m looking forward to more warm weather (no shoes time for me) and a trip to visit family in Missouri at the end of May. We are going to RockFest which promises to be fun (at least that’s what I’m told) & something of an adventure for me as I’m not big on crowds.
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