Not Today Either

Didn't write anything new today either. Instead I spent hours reading through old short stories and fixing them up so I can one day post them on Substack. A few of them end in the middle so I'll have to see if I can't pick up the thread of the stories and finish them. It was fun reading all my old stuff, though, especially the one about the first night of dive class. 

I went out after lunch to take pictures of the spring bulbs that are showing off out front. Naturally that's when raindrops decided to start falling. I didn't get very wet. The daffodils are going crazy. The whole front of the house has a yellow fringe of them. And the hyacinths mixed in are showing up too.

 

The little grape hyacinths are blooming, the ones that the rabbits haven't nibbled off, that is. They're so tiny it's easy to overlook them when there's just one here and there but this clump of them was easy to spot.

 

Once the little rain passed I went out to take the heater out of the birdbath and give it a good scrub. I confess the water was pretty green and disgusting but now it's clear and sparkling. There hasn't been any ice on the birdbath for over a week so I figured it's time for the heater to be put away for the summer.

 

And the rhubarb is getting taller. I don't think it gets any direct sunlight and probably very little rain but it keeps on keeping on.

 

I tried drawing the tree that's in the lot behind the house today. I'm not good at drawing trees so I thought I'd try. I think I drew the trunks too big and too tall so I couldn't draw the tiny twigs at the ends. The trunks look okay though, so I'm happy.

 

This morning I drew the gratitude journal page for yesterday. I don't know why I don't do them at night but I've gotten into the habit of doing them in the morning. It seems to work so I'm good with it.

 

I was impatient to have a bite of my supper tonight and ended up burning the roof of my mouth. Ouch. You'd think I'd know better by now, wouldn't you?

--Barbara