I am happy today!

Well I am happy most days, but especially happy today!

For starters, that friend I mentioned in my last post responded to my email and we have rekindled our friendship, which makes me so very happy!

Next, the hot, rainy, and muggy weather that has blanketed us for the last week and a half finally went out with a bang. We had one good massive and wicked storm yesterday and when that front that has caused havoc all over the Eastern side of the country blew out, it brought the cold temps back with it, much to my delight. I got to sleep with the window open in my bedroom last night, and I slept like a rock!

I won my first ever giveaway/contest on Twitter ( or anywhere else for that matter ) today, a bottle of Samhain Oil from Kiki's Cauldron!

Last but certainly not least, in two weeks I will be done with my Yule shopping for my kids and my Mom....thanks to a special blessing, I am able to get them a lot of really cool stuff they are going to love, and I am bouncing with excitement over it! I already have half of it ( or is en-route ) and I will order the rest of it in a couple of weeks, giving it plenty of time to be shipped in case there is any delays.

I am taking a sort of creative day today, I already did some cleaning. I am blogging, and I need to reinstall Photoshop on my PC, I am wanting to make some tags for my blog posts and whatnot.

Monday I go back to walking full time, I was sidelined all week long due to the rain, and today is sunny but the road I walk on is washed out in places and has deep mud. Jack takes that road into work and he texted me while I was at the bus stop and told me in spots the mud was up to his door panels, he had a hard time getting through, luckily he drives a big heavy truck so he was able to power through it. He asked me specifically NOT to walk down the road, and for him to say that, I know it is bad, so I will take this last day to chill out here at home. It will be sunny all weekend so hopefully the road will have dried out enough on Monday to resume walking.

I think that sums it up for me for now. I am going to make my FB rounds and then get Photoshop reinstalled and have some fun!

Have a great weekend everyone!

The Spring Thaw...

Well it turns out that we might not freeze to death after all! Over the next few days, the temps will creep back up into the low to mid 70's, and I, for one, can not WAIT!

At least the days have been sunny, and unfortunately the warmer temps comes with the rain, but I will take warm rain over freezing ice any day!

As it usually happens this time of year, our thoughts have turned toward the planting of our garden. We have planted the last two years, and while some things do okay, nothing does great, and some things do nothing at all. The soil here is very tired it seems, and is just not up to the task of sustaining us. So this year we are taking a different approach. We will be building large boxes filled with mushroom compost to plant in this year, and hope that does the trick. We already have our seeds, but the ground is not warm enough to plant, and the cold temps are not gone, as it has been below freezing every night this past week. Bleh. So it will still take 3 weeks or more for the weather to hopefully stay warm enough to cradle our seeds in the environment they need to thrive.

I can definitely feel the turning of the wheel this year, as the Earth swings back into the time of the sun. For the first time in a long time, I will welcome it with outstretched arms.