I don't have much to say at all. I just am so sick of winter, and tired of being cold.
This Saturday, my dad showed up on my porch at the un-godly hour of 8:oo AM (**I usually am to work by then, but on Saturday?? Come on!!!) He came to help us prune. I have wanted to prune. It's been something that although i know nothing about, i've been looking forward to learning. But not that early. (thanks, dad! i really DO appreciate it!) Regardless of the time, if we've got help i'm going to take it, so i dragged my husband out of bed and we went out and worked on the yard. We ONLY got to the grapes and a little of the cherries and had filled up the back of the truck. Yikes. We have a lot of work to do. :( We still have 3 apple trees, a plum tree, an apricot tree, another cherry tree, and a lot more work on the cherry tree we started on.
While Ryan and my Pa pruned away at those grapes, I started my early-spring-grass-wakeup-rake. I can't believe the piles of greenwaste we have!! And i haven't even raked more than a 100 sq. foot area. But all was done with a smile on my face for finally being outside...until the snow started. Once again, what promised to be a beautiful day becomes a winter "wonderland" urg. A quiet layer of snow now covers all my weird piles of deadness in the middle of my yard that i hadn't had time to clean up before the snow came down hard enough i was forced inside.
Then, we went to our pruning class we'd signed up for (at the time, it was supposed to be in the 50's over the weekend. Nope. It waited until MONDAY, when i didnt' step outside all day, to be 50). Standing there in the snow, feet frozen, body frozen, getting colder all the time, i realized i REALLY needed to thank my dad, because he totally did this for us. He has been pruning his trees for years!! He didn't need to come stand in the snow freezing to death!! He completely did this for us. (Once again, thanks, Dad!!)
Anyway, I know it was a nice day yesterday, but i go to work early in the morning, and come home after it's cold again. I wanted to at least go for a walk mid-day, but it doesn't happen very often. And i'm SICK OF THE COLD.
Stupid groundhog.
