No News is Good News
There is a lot going on here, but I have been finding it hard to grab the camera. I am juggling a few crafty projects and will try to post them soon. It has been a pretty typical springtime in Michigan and we are enjoying the longer days and more sunshine. As soon as the weather was right we tapped the maple tree in the front yard and have been making some syrup. Here is our first batch and you can see the bucket hanging on the tree outside the window. It is fun to enjoy the bounty of our land even if it is only a small plot of earth. We are lucky that my grandpa chose to plant sugar maples when he put these trees in 40-something years ago.
Some days are warm (today feels like summer and the kids are in shorts!) and the snakes come out to enjoy the sun:
Last Wednesday my daughter was playing with one (that is a normal springtime activity around here), and she put this one out on the ice that was still covering the lake. It slithered away, then slithered slower and slower and slower… I walked up to look out the front door at that point and so we all jumped into rescue mode. Had to slide this little guy back over to the dock like a hockey puck so that we could grab him and put him back up on the warm grass. The kids said, “But he’s cold blooded.” So that led to a nice little science lesson about the pros and cons of cold-blooded vs. warm-blooded animals. Oh, the joy of homeschooling. I love how you can integrate these “lessons” into daily life and they haven’t got a clue that it is school.
As wonderful as the weather is today, we are still in Michigan and I have to remind myself that it could look like this again next week:
But for some reason this year, I am enjoying all of it. I don’t feel in a hurry for summer. I have a sneaking suspicion that having longer daylight hours is helping with that. And of course a few warm days are a nice reminder that winter doesn’t last forever. I also still have some sewing projects I would like to get finished before I start gardening again. These sheepskin slippers might still come in handy before the warm weather arrives for good!
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