Spring

The First Day of Spring came--and went. Time changed. Tonite it's 35 and could rain any minute. But I saw crocus and mini daffodil leaves poking up through the leaves today.... I'm afraid to clear the leaves away for fear the plants will freeze!!!

Keith got a job offer from Williston, ND last week--and turned it down. 1255 miles, at 7 mpg of diesel.... just to GET there (where it's still winter and all the campgrounds are closed!) for a site unseen job? We'd have had to borrow from everyone we know to get back here if the job didn't work out!!! LOL! But, "any day now" work is going to pick up around here (as per the Union Rep's BS). None of the pipeline jobs is due to start until at least May....more like June!

So, what does he decide to do with all his free time right now? He pulls the 'drowned' car (yes, he kept it--and bought a junk yard motor for it!) into MY garage and pulled the motor! At least he's out of the RV all day.... :D It was starting to shrink fast! Out there he has his wood stove blazing and all his tools strung out and pieces of car everywhere....and a radio, a big jug of Dr. Pepper and a 'tree' outside the back door!

I finally attacked the boxes of photos again. I'm going through them as if I were our kids--who will end up dealing with whatever is left. I've scanned some into the computer to put on a flash drive one of these days, dropped several into a box for Jared, some in a box for Lana and tossed the rest!!! What a liberating feeling! I had started an album with pics from our wedding, and I've been adding a few to that as I go along, but mostly I'm just filling the trash can. Nice pictures of people the kids don't know and places they haven't been....

Oh, computer. Well, I struggled along on the antique Dell laptop for a while, and then went and acquired the old Compaq monitor that was in the kids' attic and hooked it up to the 'gooder' laptop. Then loaded everything onto a portable hard drive, just in case the rest of this laptop decides to quit working. So far, so good. That pretty much exhausts my technological expertise!
I think the next computer will probably be a PC, now that take up so little space. This old Compaq takes half my little computer desk--the half not taken already by the printer/scanner/fax/copier machine.... :D

When I get so sick of looking at old pictures that I could just barf, I am back to working on a quilt I started making blocks for--eons ago. No thought required! Meanwhile, March Madness is driving me insane! It's hell to only have 3 networks and PBS.....

Tomorrow we're skipping out on the annual 'gather and eat ourselves silly and watch kids hunt eggs and smear chocolate all over new clothes and the house and each other" at our son's house. :) Going to our daughter's and eat quiche and hang out--watch the guys play their version of Battleship (I can't play cause I don't have a screen...:( ) and maybe watch the latest movie from Netflix.... I know, I know--too much excitement, right? ;D

HAPPY EASTER to those of you who celebrate....