Hard to Believe

Those pretty clouds did this… And that was just one of many storms.  There was not a snow rake to be found in the state.  Everyone was frantic to try to get some of the snow off their roofs.  Gutters were overflowing with ice.  It was a winter like no other that I remember. 

New Toy

We had a wood stove insert installed into where our fire place was..

Man's Best Friend, to the End

Now that fireplace insert was installed the year before all this snow.  We had it installed the day before we had our sweet Bo put down.  He made it clear it was time, and it’s one of the hardest things a pet owner ever has to do.  But you do it because you love your pet.  But on that last full day, Bo made friends; the three men that came to install this beast of a stove had, and were fine with, working around Bo.  We did not tell them just how sick he was.  Frankly, I would not have been able to form the words.  I watched them give his head a scratch as they walked by him, or around him.  We waited that one extra day, so my boys could come home from college to say good bye.  Bo was the first, and still only, dog they have ever had.  This is the last picture we have of our boy.  And I know, he’d have loved this stove.

Hot Hot Hot!

Oh no, that first picture of the fireplace insert, that was just the first burn, you have to break it in.  This is what I’m talking about….

Deck Tree

As I stated, it really was a beautiful winter.  If you didn’t have to shovel that is.  Feeling festive, this year I wanted a small tree for the deck.  So we could see the tree when it was plugged in as night fell.  It was really pretty with all the snow.  It was quite charming to say the least

Fragile

After all the snow, we had rain.  And no, we can’t just have rain; we have rain that freezes everything.  But how spectacular is this, it made everything look like it was made of glass.

Why wait?

At Last

It seems so long ago

I used to have a glow,

Now I wonder why

I just want to cry,

Why am I so sad

It can't be all that bad,

It could be my past

Why does nothing last.

Every year a Spring

New life it will bring,

That is what I need

The planting of a seed,

To watch something grow

Even though I know,

That nothing ever lasts.

But green it will be

Something fun to see,

New life at its best

Who would have guessed,

Eyes open wide

I don't want to hide.

Time to feel alive

For that I will strive,

If I sit and cry

Life will pass me by,

So let's have a blast

Why can't it last?