i am longing for this...

Gorgeous day today - sunny and spectacular, and very spring-like. Making me antsy for the long warm days of a summer in shorts, on a bike, on our way to eat fish tacos by the lake. Sigh.

feels like summer

Hot dog, if it isn't 90 degrees today!!! Gorgeous weather we're having here in these parts, and I am L-O-V-I-N-G it. A great day: warm weather, windows wide open all day in a sunny and beloved (and clean, and half-packed!) apartment, cracked up on the phone with my sister (I mean seriously laughed our butts off together), caught up with email, started planning an awesome Memorial Day weekend (more on that later), and heard back from a dear friend about a potential camping trip this summer - a GREAT day. Now I'm off to book club, where we are discussing my all-time favorite book, "Anne of Green Gables." Seriously, does it get any better than this?!

That's all for now --- a great big, newsy, picture-filled update to come soon!

i am pretty excited about...

1. It's going to be nearly 70 degrees today! We haven't seen that temp in these parts since October. OCTOBER, people. I'm so happy I could do a jig, and, actually, I AM. I'm doing a jig, right now. A happy, little, "Oh, sun! Oh, blue sky! Oh, birds! Oh, first buds of spring!" dance. That's the thing about living in places where you freeze your butt off for five months out of the year, when spring comes, it's euphoric. I'm talking about one of the greatest natural highs one can experience. I'm talking about magic. No one - young or old, seasoned winterer or cold-weather newbie, happy-go-lucky or old grumpus - is immune to it. Everyone runs around writing poetry, doing jigs, skipping and biking around lakes, and pointing at geese, ducks, and teensy little buds, and saying "Oooh, look! How MARVELOUS!" And everyone else nods, and smiles, and says "Yes, indeed! How maaaaaaaaaaaarvelous!" It's the best.

2. In the spirit of rejoicing at the great old Earth coming to life again, I can hardly wait to go and watch this:

 

I cried the first time I saw that preview. Isn't it beautiful?

You know what? I think I'll go for a nice bicycle ride around the lakes on this gorgeous day. Yes, that's exactly what I'll do.

is it spring yet?

Took a bit of a break from blogging after getting my wisdom teeth out (which went beautifully, and thank you to all of you who asked) and now I'm back for a quick update on the past week and a half. It's been cold this week and we find that we are VERY much looking forward to the spring. It's supposed to be 50 degrees this weekend and we're positively ecstatic - just like a couple of giggly little kids waiting to go out and play.

Kevin has been understandably over-excited about daylight savings as it means that he now leaves the house when it's light and comes home with a few hours of light still left in the day. Poor guy was leaving for work before dawn and coming home in the dark for a few months, and I think all that lack of sunshine was really starting to wear on him. For a while there he would just come home, curl up on the floor - a pitiful little ball of pasty skin - and whimper softly to himself. It was too sad. Thank goodness for the artificial manipulation of time!

I am absurdly busy with school these days, but I will try to be a bit more consistent with my blogging (my, but you people are demanding). In the meantime, here are some pictures from an outing we took to Minnehaha Falls a couple of weeks ago on a lovely, and very welcome, sunny day. You know you're getting to be a season-hardened Minnesotan when it's 30 degrees outside and you're out with the rest of the city enjoying the "warm" weather. Good grief.