It's a Loonnngggg Winter

Well, today is April 1 and the 18" of snow (or so) that's still here is melting pretty quickly ... right now. It's around 55 degrees and it's raining off and on but tomorrow it's supposed to be in the 40s again. At least it's better than a week ago when it was 5 degrees when Stan got up.

VERY little is newsy around here. I'm actually rather bored and am considering looking for a part-time job doing anything that will get me out of the house. I'm not too interested yet but am thinking about it. I'd probably be pretty content if I could cross-stitch many hours every day but my hands won't let me: tendonitis in my right thumb really cuts down on the amount of time I can spend with a needle in my hand.

I do have to show off what I'm calling our Impatiens Gargantua. This is a "volunteer" plant that simply came up in a pot that Stan had under some timed fluorescent bulbs in the basement. He didn't even know what kind of plant it was. I identified it as an impatiens, but then it just kept growing. It's about 2-2 1/2' tall now. And it now has shoots growing off at several levels and some of them are flowering, while the blossoms on the top of this tall beauty just keep on coming. By the time it's warm enough to put it outside, this plant will be a shrub! I didn't know that impatiens could grow in this way, especially the height thing. But it seems to like the window it's now in so we hope to keep it growing.

So now we're heading out West to both visit Stan's daughter and attend our niece's wedding. This should be a nice visit even if it isn't the best weather season yet. Stan finally said that he really wanted to go more like June but he'd not said a word prior to yesterday. Sigh. We haven't seen his daughter in over 2 years so it's time, regardless the season. I'm looking forward to the trip.

I'll think about my future ... in the future.