{"id":2508,"date":"2014-04-15T15:12:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T15:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2014-04-15T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T15:18:09","slug":"is-it-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=2508","title":{"rendered":"Is It Spring?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woke up to it snowing again. \u00a0Weathermen said it would only be a light dusting and would melt off quickly. I have a half inch of snow on my deck. \u00a0I swept it off and down the steps to my shop and by the time I got to my shop, I looked back and it was all covered in that white stuff again.<\/p>\n

I feel sorry for the workmen who are working on our porch right now. \u00a0Out in the cold, shoveling all the dirt that was underneath the old porch and hauling the dirt away or spreading around. \u00a0 \u00a0Meanwhile, I am in my warm house, drinking a cup of tea and looking out at them.<\/p>\n

If you should come to my house right now, you would see that my house is rather dusty. \u00a0It is because things like this on going on.<\/p>\n

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Sawing cement blocks and they are going to have to saw the old porch steps because David tried a sledge hammer on them the other day and it just bounced off. \u00a0Bub says the older cement gets, the harder it becomes.<\/p>\n

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The foundations for the rock pillars were laid.<\/p>\n

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Stone will be put around these.<\/p>\n

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The old cement floor of the porch had to be jack hammered and then began the digging up of all the dirt that was underneath.<\/p>\n

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The wood awaits beside the house for the new porch. \u00a0It’s so exciting. \u00a0Years ago David, our daughter, and I went to Monterey, California to visit our son who was in the Air Force and was out there at language school learning Russian. \u00a0We took a day trip up to San Francisco and stopped at the Winchester House along the way. The Winchester House belonged to the man who invented the Winchester rifle. \u00a0When his wife became a widow, she began to believe that the ghosts of all the people who were killed by Winchester rifles were coming to haunt her house. \u00a0So the building of a very weird house began. \u00a0She had carpenters hired year round to keep adding to her house. \u00a0She had windows in floors, doors and stair steps to nowhere. \u00a0She was afraid that if she stopped building, the ghosts would come.<\/p>\n

I would like to be like her only in the case of getting things built all the time. \u00a0I love to watch the process of a project coming together, especially when it is something I have envisioned coming to fruition. \u00a0I always thought I would have loved to buy old houses and have them brought back to their former glory.<\/p>\n

I have seen our old house go from a 1950’s model into a 2014 model, but still keep its old look. \u00a0It’s been a labor of love and I know I will never stop work on it until I no longer can. \u00a0I have a lot of painting and staining to do after the carpenters leave. \u00a0That makes me happy. \u00a0I love to paint. \u00a0That’s something else I probably would have loved to do. Be a painting contractor. \u00a0I have painted every one of the rooms in our house two, three and four times. \u00a0I read a magazine article one time where a woman who loved to paint said that if her husband would allow her, she would paint her house every year. \u00a0I am kind of that way. \u00a0 David knows exactly where I will go as soon as we go to Lowes. \u00a0The paint department. \u00a0 My only problem is choosing colors. \u00a0I have made some big boo boos \u00a0through the years like our Pepto Bismal colored bedroom one time. \u00a0 Right now, I like all the colors in all our rooms, but I am going to change the living room color after all the carpentry work is done and all the cracks are filled.<\/p>\n

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But Spring is slowly coming into the garden. \u00a0We have many different types of daffodils.<\/p>\n

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Remember in the Walt Disney version of Alice in Wonderland where the flowers sang and talked? \u00a0This daffodil reminds me of them.<\/p>\n

Other things are blooming or getting ready to burst forth.<\/p>\n

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A bush cherry. \u00a0I actually didn’t plant this one. \u00a0The birds did from seed from another bush in the yard. They do such great gardening for me sometimes.<\/p>\n

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Baby lilacs that will be much bigger and smell so good in just a few days.<\/p>\n

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I can’t remember what this plant is called, but it also is getting ready to bloom. \u00a0 Its leaves stayed green all winter.<\/p>\n

I can’t wait to landscape around the porch when it is finished. \u00a0I have already bought a pink flowering almond bush. \u00a0The one I have now didn’t do too well through the winter and is in the path of the destruction and not faring too well. \u00a0It might come back with some pruning and tender loving care.<\/p>\n

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Bonnie, what is that white stuff on your nose?<\/p>\n

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“I’m just gonna bite someone if they don’t play with me!”<\/p>\n

Oh, no you won’t, Belle.<\/p>\n

Here’s to Spring snows and flowers that bloom anyway. \u00a0Bye.<\/p>\n

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