...or at least, it's acting more that way.
Today was absolutely lovely. The temperature broke 60 degrees Farenheit. It was sunny all day, a breeze but not a stiff or cold breeze…just a nice summer breeze, sufficient to cool me off as I walked 50 blocks to my post office and then back again.
It’s been a long, cold, icy winter. It even snowed last week, for pity’s sake…but this weekend, the cherry blossoms were in full display. Birds were about. My neighbors, who had been preparing their soil for the last two weeks waiting for Planting Season, put out their new perennials (to replace the ones that had utterly frozen this past winter.) The dog next door, who often stands in its backyard beneath my office window trying to figure how to get my cats to play with it, whined but did not bark while my cat Fog, who usually rubs against the closed window *teasing* the poor dog below, sat quietly in the sunlight and the open window…but did not tease the dog. (Well…not overly much. Fog is a cat, and as such, some level of smugness is embedded in her DNA.)
I thought about what I need to get done on the house. It needs to be leveled and shored up, because the previous owners just let it slowly slide down the hill (and the board hereabouts is as effective as a Really Ineffective Thing.) I want to see if it’s possible to plant a cherry tree in the backyard, which I get to landscape as I choose (as long as I don’t plant anything that’s going to rip into the drainage system.) And I think that I want to build a partial deck out behind the second story. I’ll have to have it substantially shored up, to hold the weight of a human being or four; and I don’t want it the entire length of the house. But it would be nice to have a sunporch…and I’m not just confined to only having a deck on the ground. Heck, it’s my house, if I want to go to the expense of putting in a koi pond I can do it.
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