Out of the Mountains: Spring is a tease

Friday, February 13, 2009

Spring is a tease

The last week has been a tease. It's like - okay the groundhog said you'd have six more weeks of winter, you've had your major ice/snow event for this winter, now let me show you what you have to look forward to. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s, lots of sunshine and after the rainstorm a beautiful rainbow outside my windows. I didn't go searching for the pot of gold but it sure was nice to think about what I would do if I found it.

Even without that pot of gold, I'm going to Florida!!! This afternoon we are going to AAA to plan the trip to Key West. I am so excited to visit Ray, walk in the garden of good and evil in Savannah, see Peggy after several years, watch the sun set in Key West.

I haven't posted for a couple of weeks because not much was happening. If I wasn't out eating at Marabelles with Ric and Sam, eating a Maggiola's with Bob and Joyce and Ron and Iva, eating salmon from Lake Michigan with Karen and Bonnie, eating at Appleby's with the in-laws or eating birthday cake with Jake and Emerson at Bounce U. , I was quilting that @#@% purple quilt. You can tell my social life revolves around eating. That's Southern Hospitality - eat and drink sweetened tea!!

Jake's fifth birthday party was at Bounce U in Lexington Saturday. I would have pictures but those thirteen pre-schoolers were bouncing and running so fast they were just blurs for the time we were there. Thank God, He gives children to the young because I was just exhausted watching them move so fast. Emerson was as brave as the five year olds going to the top of the slide and sliding by herself.

Today is my baby's 35th birthday. Can you believe that? It seems like yesterday sometimes that he was grinning at me to get his way!!! Course he still does!

This is the progress on the purple quilt. What do you think? This will be the center of a queen size quilt. I am doing a quilt as you go and it is going very well.