Slogging Along

Spring has arrived in the west.  One day warm, blue sky and muddy.  The next - snowing, frozen ground and bone chilling cold.  It's a hard time mentally too.  Like the weather, it is hard to go from the extreme of ecstatic excitement and exclamation to gray sky doldrums.  Up and down; one's emotions tend to follow the weather far too closely this time of the year.  Add continued isolation to the scenario and watch the suicide rates rise.  We see it happen every year in this valley and so far, this year is no different than others.   

Mike is back from his Rochester NY visit.  He needed to go back.  It was a good visit.  Janet, his mom, continues to struggle with health challenges.  There seems to be no way to talk to her and this is so frustrating for everyone.  We hope she will get "dialed in" to her phone soon.

A beautiful shower door got hung this weekend!  After we finished, Mike told me the instructions begin with 'be sure to have a licensed professional hang these doors'!!  The glass panels were really heavy.  The instructions were not well written.  But nothing got broken and the door functions properly.  It's a lovely thing!!!  The new renters moved in yesterday!!  Welcome HOME!!

Here is some very impressive yard art!  I discovered these side by side flowers - fireweed - along a road in a high-end part of our valley.  This is a beautiful rendition of a fireweed.  Unusual, yes, but I appreciated the artist's ability to replicate the giant metal flower - probably 15' tall - in color and form perfectly!  They are one of the first flowers to come in after a fire, hence, their name sake!

I am currently immersed in Victor Frankl's lectures in a book called Yes to Life  Such a great thinker and writer!  Nothing frivolous about this writing, it's heavy reading indeed.  But like eating a hearty beef stew and sourdough bread, it is filling and satisfying.