It
seems that Mother Nature has done an extreme flipflop in weather patterns, for
a change Southern Alberta is experiencing mild spring weather that includes a
warmish rain while Ontario has snow. Mom
and I are cautiously optimistic that we can get it an early garden this year which
will include vegetables and potatoes. As
long as we can get rid of all the weeds we should have a great showing.
I love the Agatha Christie and Georgette
Heyer books where seemingly ordinary middle class people have their gardener,
cook and maid. Ah for the good old days
where regular folks could afford to pay a gardener. Nowadays you get a landscape artist that
costs a small fortune and they don’t even do the work!
I’m looking outside my office window and
see the lawn is nearly all green now but the buds are barely showing yet on the
trees. Today the foothills are slightly
misty and the mountains are hidden in the clouds. It’s going to take a while for the sun to
burn through but it hasn’t stopped the critters from begging to go out for
their frolic. I might see them again at
sundown. Remember the good old days when
mothers would say that about their children?
Isn’t it sad that today we live in fear of allowing our children out of
our sight?
Today I am taking my mother for a frolic
of sorts. It’s off for our bi-monthly grocery shopping and then we are invited
to tea out in the countryside. She was
delighted to be invited along. I can see
that I have the makings of a social butterfly on my hands. I’m contemplating allowing her to get her
license and buy her a car but as she has directional dyslexia I am a little
nervous that she may end up in Montana before she realizes she’s made the wrong
turn.
Just took another peek out the window,
tulips blooming. Ah, it’s spring at
last.
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