Luckily, my job pays the same for observing as for actually working, so the only negative to the 6 weeks of limbo was boredom.
J received new materials last week for cyber school. It has been taking us almost twice as long to get the work done since then. I spent about an hour last night, prepping materials for today. My Mom worked with J in the morning while I was at work, and we finished up this afternoon in much better time than before...even with an extra hour of on-line classes, and ample time to play outside in the sunshine! Perhaps I should do this on a regular basis??
I'm feeling Spring in my blood these days. The unexpected snow yesterday afternoon did not diminish it for a moment. I cleaned out my flower beds last weekend...trimmed the old, dead stuff, pulled out leaves and scooped out cat poo (nice). This afternoon, I dug my planting trays out of the garage to start winter squash, pumpkin and cucumber seeds indoors. The sunshine makes me anxious to DIG in the dirt!
The sap is running in our Maple trees. My Dad and the girls have tapped 9 or 10 trees, and have collected gallons and gallons of sap. Dad has boiled down the sap to get several pints of Maple Syrup...the ratio is roughly 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. I have only had the chance to taste a spoonful here and there, but I'm hoping to try our own Maple Syrup on pancakes this weekend.
Time and seasons continue to flow by. Now the time has arrived to fix dinner. Happy Almost-Spring!
