Spring is Here, I Think.

Here it is March already, as if I haven't waited for it long enough. This has been a winter for the record books. I have been here almost twenty four years now and I have never seen a winter as cold for so long a time. The whole winter was cold, wet, miserable and down-right uncalled for. All of my palms and bottle-brush plants are dead. Most I just put in this last spring. I will certainly have a bare yard this year.

I can't say I was the only one having a tough winter. My sister, Jeanne in Tennessee had a good bit of snow and a lot of real cold weather. My sister, Pat in Virginia had it the worst. I think she said they had a total of around fifty inches of snow this winter, and winter isn't over for her. It can still snow as late as May in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

I want to see some green grass and leaves on the trees. Before the leaves comes the pollen I'm afraid. It is visible from my office window here. I hate those little long squiggly yellow things that are only good for stopping up the skimmer baskets on the pool. But what a small price to pay in order to see those green leaves pop out.

Nothing has been as bad as what my brother Bob has gone through this winter. He has had major surgery on his throat and tongue because of cancer, only to learn afterwards that it was an ulcer from the radiation he took in the fall last year. Now they want to operate again and take out what they put in. I would be wanting to bang some heads against the wall if it were me. I guess Bob is taking it as good as he can considering all the pain he has had to endure. His wife, Joyce, sometimes feels like she is at the breaking point because she has to do so much for him.

When I think of the things Bob and Joyce have had to go through this winter, and all the other less fortunate ones, it makes me ashamed to complain about having to wear long-johns and an extra pair of socks. I do complain a lot over nothing but again I should keep myself busy so I won't have the time to complain. I think I will go get busy and watch some television and stop complaining.I'm not sure what I will have to tell all you folks about if all is perfect. Well, something will come up I am sure.

See ya. Sandy