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March 27, 2005
'Tis Spring
Grey, rainy day. Just exactly the sort of thing I want to see right now. The daffodils around the birch tree in front are gorgeous yellow in the misty light, and the grass is so green. A different green, however, from the leaves that are budding on the crabapple outside the kitchen window.
As near as I can tell, with some casualties in the aconite and grape hyacinths I planted in the lawn, pretty much everything I planted last year has happily survived the winter. All of the trees, shrubs and rosebushes have at least got some kind of buds on them, the daffs are blooming, as are the little irises, the crocuses and the scilla, and the tulips and irises and foxtail lillies and leeks and other bulbs are putting forth leaves too. I love spring.
I also love art, having a room of my own and being able to create a project jointly with Dave. I now have a complete desk. Before I moved to Moscow, I painted a door that Dave paid $5 for. It became my desk top, and it's been sitting on sawhorses in my office since we got here. Until yesterday. Yesterday, we finally put it on the stands Dave built for it. (I painted those too.) It's beautiful. But don't take my word for it, see for yourself.
I also took a picture of Dave with Poly. Mom sent us Easter gifts that included this chick that cheeps, but only when it's connected to your skin. It has little electrical sensors that rely on the conductivity of the body to complete the circuit. Dave's holding it, and The Boy is investigating.
Until I cropped the picture, I didn't realize how BIG Poly really has become (and remember, he's still not even a year old). At the most, he's about 10 1/2 months. Here's a picture of him taken three weeks after he came to live with us, when he was somewhere between 3 and 4 months old.
(He was sooooo little then, he was just precious. I'd forgotten how small he was.)
Posted by sally at March 27, 2005 01:49 PM
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