WARM weather - woohoo!!

We finally are getting truly WARM temperatures!!  On Tuesday I decided it was a good day to get my seasonal picture out the back door of the office.  The last one I took was on February 27 when we were having a mini-blizzard. 

When I got home from work on Tuesday I pulled our white table and chairs out of storage, gave them a quick scrubbing, and put them on the side porch. 

Today I had about an hour between work at the office and piano lessons.  The weather was PERFECT.  I had not yet eaten lunch (even though it was 3:30), and I decided it was just the right time to have my first meal outside.  It fed my soul.  Even though a bee decided it also belonged there.  And even though my mountain is still brown.  So I took a picture facing the street instead of the mountain this time. 

Our tulips are starting to fall apart.  But the last ones to bloom were a nice surprise - two toned!  I just love them.  Yes, I know.  We have dandelions.  Dick will be treating the lawn for them.  And getting mulch.    

But don't rush the dear guy!  He spent Tuesday and part of Wednesday getting his second chemo treatment.  I had to get my semi-annual blood work done Tuesday morning, so I stopped by oncology to check in on him.  They had already given him Benedryl, so he was pretty sleepy.  

So far he's doing great.  After choir practice this evening he was really ready to come home and crash.  After all, he DID play basketball early this morning and he worked all day.  And mowed part of the yard before choir practice. 

One morning this week I opened the door to take some trash out, and the crisp Spring morning air brought a memory to me.  Picking asparagus!  When I was in eighth grade, my mom learned of an opportunity to earn some money picking asparagus at a local farm.  So several mornings a week, at the crack of dawn, my mom and I and Mary Ellen joined other crazy people in the asparagus field.  We shivered, we got wet, our backs hurt, our hands turned dark and smelled funny.  Then we'd go home and clean up for school.  Ugh.  But we made some money!  I found this picture on the internet, and it reminds me of that field.  I posted it on Facebook and had several comments from people who said they never knew how asparagus grows.  Did you?

Have a great weekend!