I love the four seasons. They are all my favorites. However, winter is too long, and spring, summer and fall are too short. Actually, our winter has been quite mild. I had to fire the snowblower up only one time this winter. That means little snow fell but wind and cold was relentless. So, for the last month I have been searching for signs of spring. After four months of winter, I just needed a promise that spring was getting…..
Spring is one of my four favorite seasons of the year. Yep, there’s something to love about all four seasons. But spring can be the most frustrating. As I’m sitting down to write this blog I am exhausted. I’m not sure if it’s because I just finished planting the garden this morning or because I’m still recovering from the eighteen holes of golf I played yesterday afternoon. Actually it might be a combination of the two. There is also the…..
Yesterday I finally took a hike with a friend that I have been meaning too hike with for several months. I pulled my pair of snowshoes down off the hook on the garage wall and wrestled them onto my boots. In 1980 we moved to a 7.9 acre plot of land out in the country several miles west of Wheaton. Immediately I developed a close friendship with the southern edge of our property as it contained a creek. I had never experienced a…..