Goodbye Winter

Last December 15, we had our first significant snowstorm of the season. The following morning I went out to get the paper, but it was no where to be found. It being buried somewhere under mounds of snow.



I'd been trying for about a year to get the newspaper person to put my newspaper by by back step, but apparently, that's too much effort for them. Their preferred delivery method is to toss my paper out their car window as they drive past. There was also no consistency to where the paper happened to land each morning. So much for customer service. This particular morning, I didn't even try to find it. I Just called and made them bring me another one. I did ask the lady when she brought me the new paper if I could "PLEASE" have my newspaper delivered onto the dry cement under the carport. (She was a new carrier). She was more than happy to tell me she could do that, and that was where she put it for two days. Since then it's just been thrown out on the end of the driveway. I give up! I delivered the Post Register for several years when I was a teenager, and can tell you story after story about how nasty & ornery people can be to newspaper carriers. I prefer not to be like one of those kind of people.

Early one morning this past week, I ventured out to gather up the paper and found that the last of the snow had finally melted and the long-lost missing paper was laying in plain sight out on the dead grass. I brought it in the house & took it out of the plastic bag. The date on the newspaper was December 16, 2008. Yep! that was the missing paper all right.

The past couple days have been warmer, so today I went out looking for spring in my yard. I found some very early signs!

Crocus blooming


Rhubarb poking up


Lilac bud's (thanks again Gary & Jenny for the Lilac bush hand-me-down)