A Saturday in March

 

 

Hello everyone,

Welcome to a beautiful March day.  Despite being freezing cold still, the sun has been shining all day.  Spring is really trying to break through this cold front and hopefully it will succeed very soon.  After an industrious morning cleaning the house top to bottom, everywhere smells of beeswax furniture polish.  I went mad with the polishing as the furniture in the living room was looking rather jaded from all the central heating.  Now it looks nice and shiny and ready for Spring and I won`t have to do it again for weeks.

                       

After my busy morning I took Jake for a leisurely walk, and even though I knew it was really cold the bright sunshine was deceiving and I didn`t realise just how cold until I stepped outside.  Jake had spent most of the morning asleep on the back lawn, he obviously doesn`t feel the cold, what with Labradors originally hailing from somewhere along the coast of Canada. I wonder how dogs manage to keep so warm?  I mean, their coats ARE thick but a thick coat wouldn`t be enough for me to lie outside for hours on a bitterly cold March morning!

                       

Danny is moving into his new flat today, Jim helped him move some stuff there yesterday and Slava is helping him with the main furniture today.  Jim told me that although the new flat is really nice it needed a really good clean, his girlfriend Salina was scrubbing the floor it was so bad.  Dan had left his old flat spotless for the owner when he moves back in.  It should be the same for him at the new place...if it were me I would complain to the landlord about it.

                         

I`ve got nothing to do for the rest of the afternoon so I have all the time in the world to read and comment on all the journals.  I managed to read them yesterday but didn`t comment on many as I ran out of time.  I`m sure the clock goes around faster when I`m online!  Before I go I do hope Joan is getting the sunshine for her daughter`s wedding today. I for one am really looking forward to hearing all about it. Anyway, I hope you all have a lovely day.  Take care my friends and Bye Bye for now.

 

 

The afternoon is bright,
with spring in the air,
a mild March afternoon,
with the breath of April stirring,
I am alone in the quiet patio
looking for some old untried illusion -
some shadow on the whiteness of the wall
some memory asleep
on the stone rim of the fountain,
perhaps in the air
the light swish of some trailing gown.

Antonio Machado, 1875-1939

 

Each leaf

Each blade of grass, vies for attention.

Even weeds carry tiny blossoms
to astonish us.

 Marianne Poloskey

 

The sun is brilliant in the sky but its warmth does not reach my face.
The breeze stirs the trees but leaves my hair unmoved.
The cooling rain will feed the grass but will not slake my thirst.
It is all inches away but further from me than my dreams.

   M. Romeo LaFlamme,