April Angst

We had a high of 34 today, down to 22 tonight, snow starting around midnight Sunday and into Monday. That electric blanket is going to feel good tonight. 

My husband has been watching the Masters golfing on TV. What beautiful flowers surround that course in Augusta.

I have two lily blooms left on my plant. The bloom stalk has appeared on 3 daffodils so there is hope. I think I might go pick up my Bloom of the Month tulips this week, too. 

The lady in charge of residents' activities has decided to hold a reception in the library to celebrate National Library Week. Of course she expects me to be there to answer questions, etc. I'm not too thrilled. She tried this two or three years ago, and we had 4 people show up. I have made good progress in filling in the fiction series gaps; bought 20 books in the last 2 weeks. A few of those I bought on ebay with no shipping charge. Almost as inexpensive as Better World Books. However, the shelves are almost full again.

It is going to warm up Wednesday and last for several days. It might even be 60 Thursday when we travel to Fort Wayne for an appointment and some shopping. It doesn't feel a bit like April. Today we had lots of sunshine, blue sky with puffy white clouds so it looked like spring if one didn't venture out. I haven't been outside all day. Instead I baked some zucchini bread using the last of my frozen zucchini. Oh, it smelled so good in the house.

I am so tired of my winter clothes. Looks like less than a week until I can switch to lighter items. Are you antsy for the real spring to appear?

Happy Easter

Bloom number 5 opening on Easter Day.

He Is Risen!

Alleluia!

Helping Out Spring

At least the forecast for 3-5 inches of snow on Saturday has been changed to flurries and light snow. I went outside today to pick up the dried out strips of ornamental grass that had blown into the netting. Nothing to get excited about re the daffodils and crocus.

This afternoon I went to Meijer to buy an Easter lily. There was an ad featured in the circular. Not one lily. The employee said they expected a truck by tonight. Phoo! The ad came out last weekend, but there wasn't even display space set aside for the lilies. Slow in arriving apparently.

I bought a small pot of pink tulips which I had planned to buy along with the lily. 

I also got out of the closet my blue with white flowers apron. It joins the pretty blooming apron I recently bought on Etsy. 

It's going to look like spring inside at least if I have my way. 

Spring Robins

The calendar says spring has arrived, and sure enough I saw 3 robins today. Well, maybe only 2 because the one I saw in the backyard may have been one of the two I saw earlier in the pear tree out front. The blustery wind has caused the loose dried out strands of the berm ornamental grasses to get caught in the netting I put over my crocus to keep the rabbit from eating them. Too cold to go out and clean them up.

I have some money from donations to buy books for the retirement library, but no space on the shelves. I spent some time Monday weeding the books. It is getting harder to find items suitable to discard. I don't necessarily remove books because they are old, but because when I flip them open I see how tiny and crowded the print is on the pages. I still have pretty good vision, but I wouldn't attempt to read these pages unless the book was compelling. The printing standards for spacing and margins have certainly changed in the last 50 years. 

I withdrew 18 fiction books; today I ordered from Better World Books 16 titles to fill series gaps. I am picky. The book has to be in very good condition and priced right. I know from past experience that searching over time instead of all at one time, one is likely to find some good deals. I am less picky of condition when buying at a library book sale where the price is 50 cents to a dollar. These Better World Books tend to be $4-$5; free shipping though.

One of the series I completed thru purchases earlier was The Irish Angel series by Jill Landis. When I shelved the new additions, I noticed book one was off the shelf. I wanted to read this series; the book didn't reappear until last week, maybe 4 months after it left the shelf.  I had a good read the past few days, all 3 books. This is a "new" author for me, but I will be on the look out for more of her books. 

This morning after returning from helping a neighbor download a PDF file onto her computer, I remarked to my husband that so many people never use the right button on the mouse which does allow one to do a Save As procedure. He looked at me and said, "You can do that, save a PDF file?" I showed him how; he wanted to email one as well. Two people in one day learning how to use right click. I should start a right click crusade in my neighborhood. Just kidding. I have told folks to hold down the control button and click on "p" to print when they seemed befuddled. At least these people do use a computer in their senior years.