It’s SPRING!!!

“The First Buds of Spring”

I hold my breath all winter for this day! I really, really try to like winter. I’ve tried making friends with it. I’ve tried ignoring it. I’ve tried going to warm places during it. But it’s the lack of light that does me in. I just sink…to varying degrees. Some years I float just under the surface. Other years I sink like a stone. I think this was a stone year but I’m fighting my way back up.

One of the challenges I’m faced with right now is feverishly copying five years of blog posts from Facebook to my website. It is a project I delve into from time to time, but I’m so worried about what would happen if FB went away. I would lose TONS of content. I sat down one day and did a very rough calculation and figured I have over a MILLION words here on Marshmallow Ranch. It would be a tragedy to lose that so I’ve been working away at it for the last week. Diving down into some of that stuff is hard. But seeing these buds out in the yard yesterday made my heart sing! It was 74 degrees, and…we are expecting 3-6” of snow Wednesday. Argh!

Also, today would have been Mr. Rogers’ 90th birthday. I’m really looking forward to the biopic featuring Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers! I love them both.

Enjoy the First Day of Spring, my lovely friends! Get out and do something fun! ❤️

“Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”” ‭‭Hosea‬ ‭6:3‬ ‭NIV‬‬