IS IT SPRING - YET?

I have Spring Fever baddddd!!! Our weather in February has been setting records.  Yes, more days then ever in the sixties.  Last years record was snow.  I'm not sure what to think of Mother Nature.  I feel so sorry for my NE friends and  my TX friends, snow??? With our warmer weather everything is starting to bud out and bloom.

Oh, do I love daffodils!  They tell me winter is over and it's the start of color in the yard.  I have purple crocuses also blooming but somehow missed taking a photo.  I'm thinking of planting even more bulbs of different varieties  My favorite daffodil is a late bloomer so yeah, more blooms later!

Of course I had to pick a bouquet for the house.  I may have to go pick another, love flowers in the house.

I sure hope Spring is headed your direction!

Enjoy, June

IT"S OFFICAL !!!!!

I am officially done with punching that time clock. I'm not saying done working, for working has many definitions!

My last day of work was very nice.  Usually my company has a luncheon for people leaving but I chose to cook instead.  You see I didn't retire, they decided to eliminate my job once I told them I was going to retire this summer.  Oh well, life goes on, so no retirement party! I occasionally cook for my work crew and since Friday was my last day I wanted to cook for the crew one last time.  I made their favorite, chicken enchiladas.  For dessert it was Paula Dean's Not Yo Mama's Banana Pudding, YUM! If you haven't tried this, you are missing out.

So for my last drive home from work the mountain gave me a perfect photo moment.

Mt Hood is gorgeous snow covered.  Even though we haven't had much snow this year and the ski resorts are really hurting.   I love my mountain!

So what have I been doing?  First it really hasn't sunk in that I'm not working.  I feel like I'm just on some time off.  Yesterday I worked in the yard pruning roses like crazy. Then I had to remind myself I don't need to kill myself in one day.

The weather has been warm, so unusual for this time of the year.  The poor east coast is getting hammered with snow and we are enjoying the opposite.  So much that I've been doing this.

Yes, can you imagine hanging the laundry out to dry in February, crazy!

With this warm weather I have lot of flowers starting to pop out of the grown.  Let's hope we don't get a cold snap of winter.

Please overlook the weeds for I haven't found the magic to stop them from growing.. So retirement will be weed pulling and working in the yard.  Hopefully this summer my yard will look like my mind imagines it.  Oh I can dream on, ha-ah!!!

Enjoy your day for I'm back outside to WORK!

June

THREE

That's right, three days of getting up and wondering what I will wear to work.  Three days of punching that time clock! Three days!!!  Actually it really hasn't registered, maybe when I don't have to worry about clothes, the commute, being on time.

That got me thinking about my commute.  I really have a lovely commute each morning.  I have my travel mug with hot coffee and a pleasant country drive to work.  It is my thinking time.  I usually review the day ahead, what's on the agenda for after work and so on!

This time of the year the weather doesn't make for great photo ops, but with my photography skills no day is a photo op!

I have great sunrises, mountain view, flowers, beautiful fields and so on.

We always say pink sky at night sailors delight, pink sky in the morning sailors take warming.

If you look really close that is Mt. St. Helen's.  On a clear day I can see Mt Hood, Mt St.Helen's and Mt Rainier!! I wished I could have found some of my Mt Hood photo, but my photo filing skills are about as good as my photo taking skills.

Some mornings as the fog lifts and the sun start to rise, who couldn't have a great day!

Some days I have traffic jams!!  Yes, this is my slow down, a combine or tractor! No freeways on my commute.

Them come Spring my favorite commute.  I get to drive by fields of tulips, beautiful tulips!

Do I ever like tulips!!  They signal that winter is over!  Did you know Spring is only 37 days away?

Yes, I think I will miss my commute but who's to say I can't go for a ride in the mornings!

Three Days!! I will be enjoying myself!!

June