SPRING FEVER 2012

This week has been so nice and sunny and warm that Big Bore and I have come down with an acute case of Spring Fever and dragged out most of the plants that have been hibernating inside over the winter. I have to hand it to him--he did a great job keeping the ferns looking hardy while they vacationed in the basement. But they look soooo happy on the front porch now.

Also glad to be back on the porch is the hammock. It's my special reading spot, and a fun respite for the neighbor kids.

"The hammock is back!" Trouble #1 shouted the other day after school. "Where has it been?"

"In the garage on the rafters," I told him.

"How can you lie in it there?"

"You can't. It's all broken apart during the winter time."

Well, that didn't exactly make sense to him, but he was more interested in carefully boarding the hammock and taking his first swing of the season.

"Do you have anymore Monster's Blood with Slime cake?" he asked. It's actually a red velvet cake with the cream cheese frosting dyed green, which Big Bore had made the day before. Trouble #1 is going through a scary creatures phase right now, so BB gave the cake a special name just for him.

"Yeah. You want a piece?"

"Yes, please. And a glass of milk."

Ah! There's nothing like a hammock and an after-school treat to make a kid happy. At times like this, I think it might not be so bad to be 5-years-old again. Of course, I had grumpy old Mr. and Mrs. Knoles and Mr. and Mrs. Bryson for neighbors back in the 1950s and they never gave me anything more than a bunch of dirty looks...and probably rightly so.

From Casa de la Flaming Bore: may you merrily swing into spring!!