It's that time of year. Spring is here -- or at least that is what the calendar says. The winter sun has changed ... intensified ... brightened somehow, and, once in a while, shines piercingly through dirty windows, highlighting spiderwebs and dust balls, as if the time change isn't enough of an insult to one's way of life. Here come thoughts of Spring cleaning ... ugh. The good thing though, for those of us in NW Pennsylvania, is that it is also time to put the screens back in, open the windows, and let fresh air inside (if it isn't snowing) - after months of the house being closed up tightly to survive the cold and ... the heat bills.
I eagerly await for the lawn and pasture to "firm up" a bit -- still too soggy to really work outside even with Muck boots, but ... there is the holding promise of warmer days. You see -- here's the thing. I would rather work outside than inside... although, I do enjoy a clean house. I am a picker up of sticks more than a chaser of the ever returning "dust bunny". I prefer the light manual labor of outside. I hire out the big stuff or ignore it as much as possible. As for inside, I have all the necessary tools for the essential chores in order to get them done as simply and quickly as possible... including an ever faithful Roomba for under the beds. Yes... it is outside for me -- where I can wander about and take my time with things after several months of being inside in front of the fireplace. I am a fresh air kind of person.
Further -- must mention.... I also have my good olde friend, Margaret, to help out with the annual cleanup of the lawn and pasture. Margaret is a 2007 Trail Hand Bush Hog vehicle with an automatic dumper. She rests in my small barn all winter just waiting patiently under her tarp. She is bright red. Her cargo bed will tolerate 1000 lbs. or so. She is a hard worker. I can load up my battery operated saws and trimmers, pile assorted rakes and my Grandpa's Weeder into her cargo bed, take off into the back pasture or around the yard and Margaret makes light work of it all. Good olde Margaret. Don't know what I would do without her. She doesn't go too fast like the side-by-sides of today... just sort of fast enough to get the job done and for the pre-drivers license grand to drive around too. She is a multi-purpose vehicle for sure. It's almost time. Am looking forward to it.
Happy Spring.... May the sun shine on you. I wish you gentle breezes as you go about your days.
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