This week in spring!

Hello blog fans! The Earth has gone wacky crazy over the past 10 days. Flowers everywhere!And of course weird weather. One day we had sun, rain, hail and snow flurries - all before lunch. The street pictured is Nichol Avenue. All down the lane - both sides are Bradford pears in full, popcorn bloom. I took the pictures over several days because they were so beautiful! Also, you'll notice the horses - mama and baby. I noticed them one day as I was travelling to Kora's house. I actually turned around and went back for the picture. They did me a favor and posed so nicely for the photo. And check out the Ajuga blooming across the street from out farm in the fallow field. The corner of the American flag was caught in the tree limbs and presented a flag in perment unfurldness on the moon effect And the rest pretty much speak for them selves. Ah, sweet spring!

After my last blog entry, I decided that I want to just write about funny things. Well, I've been waiting for weeks for a funny story and nothing funny has happened. Except for little funny things....like... one morning I was aggravated at Phil for some reason and was kinda fussing at him. So as I cleaned the kitchen and got ready for work, he was eaating his breakfast and telling me something irritating. I walked over to the cabinet to get a dish cloth. I opened the door and a handful of dish towels fell out of the cabinet onto the floor. I bent over to pick them up and Phil says " look at how messy it is in that cabinet." I just glared at him and started to put the fallen dish towels back inside the cabinet. Just as I started to close the door, more dish towels fell out, proving his point and he burst out laughing! Under my breath I said"Not funny, God." And then I had to laugh too. Hope you're enjoying the spring you're having as much as I am enjoying mine.

P.S. I have to tell you that today I actually framed in the first of about 14 windows in the Nichol house. It looked good and I just amazed myself. So I take this opportunity to pat myself on my back.

"Oh no you dit ent!"

Ok, on April 1st something happened that made me wonder why I ever gave up birth control pills, namely, two of my sons . I was at the Nichol house spackling away on the never ending walls of that 2 story art project. My cell phone rings just as I was taking a little coffee break. It was Barnaby on the line.

"Hey Mom" he says.

"Hey Barnaby, what's going on?" I ask.

"Not much, what's happening with you?" he asks.

"Oh, just spackling, trying to get these walls in shape" I reply.

"I was just thinking about you" I added.

"Bout anything in particular?" he asks.

"No, just wondering if anything has been happening with you" I said.

"Hmmm, well Mom, I was just calling to let you know that Saco Cabinets will be delivering a truckload of cabinets at your store today" he said.

"Oh really, what time?" I asked.

"Probably around 1 or 2 oclock" he said.

I paused to think how I would work around this disruption in my work progress.

"OK, no problem" I said.

"Mom, there's some money owed on the cabinets, so you'll need to collect it when the guy shows up to pick up the cabinets. He owes $849.32. He's gonna bring cash so make sure you get the right amount" he urged.

I was thinking at this point that maybe I should be writing this down.

"OK, that's no problem" I said in a kinda half hearted way.

And it felt like the conversation was over and this is when Barnaby said

"Let me give you his name. His name is Mr Poo Poo Pants. That's Poo Poo Pants!" he chortled.

In the background I could hear him and his brother Harrison roaring with laughter.

"April fools" he added.

I confess, when he first said Poo Poo Pants, I was actually thinking that the name sounded French. And when I realized that this was all just a big April fools ruse, I thought to myself that Barnaby had pulled this same kind of deal on me last April fools. Man, I am so gullible.

And I would have written all of this in my blog on April 1st but I stayed off my computer to avoid the well hyped Conficker computer virus. When I opened my computer this morning it still worked without any problem but who knows my computer may have been infiltrated and is now a secret compubot for some sinister poo poo pants a world away.