It IS spring, it really is!

There are just the tiniest leaves on the poplar trees in Hawkeye.  Everyone else has full-blown leaves but I'll settle for ours.  The tamaracks are starting to green up as well and my daffodils are in bloom like crazy.  Primroses are in bloom too but not much else going on.  That's OK, May is a joyous time of daily advances.

I'm still volunteering at the thrift store two days a week and this morning was one of those days.  Wow it was busy.  Wednesday was the same--partly because the regulars in Receiving are out for a couple/few weeks and partly because it's SPRING and the sun is shining so people are cleaning.  Many many shoppers and many many droppers.  I can't do the whole 5 hours the store is open, I do 3 1/2 hours and head out.  I feel guilty leaving but I just can't do that many hours on my feet.  I never had a job that demanded that kind of physical activity, I mostly sat on my butt all my working years. 

I've been walking outside with my gym friend, she lives near here and there are nice walks by her house and by mine.  The lucky dogs get to join us and they run and run and run.  This morning we walked in 31 degrees, up from the 29 it was when I got up.  Another frosty morning predicted for tomorrow.

The sun is warm.  Grass is not green but that's good because I'm not in a mowing mood.  I should be outside cleaning up the yard but I'm sitting in the living room resting.  I usually feel mildly depressed in the spring, always in April.  I forgot to do that this April but yesterday had a very blue day.  I slept and slept, then went to bed and slept some more.  Today I feel much better so maybe it wasn't really depression.  If that's what I want.

I'm off to Rhode Island on Friday for Mark's 60th birthday and a few days with my mother.  Looking forward to that--she says the dogwood is in bloom, some of the rhododendrons are still blooming.  I'll do some plant shopping while I'm there, it's a little early based on weather here.  I did get violas, not my usual pansies, but haven't started laying in supplies for my deck pots yet.  It's too cold!