Those who know me are well aware that I despise all things winter.  If I didn’t have my family, good friends and a school for my kids that I love, I’d have left Michigan long ago.  Over the last weeks Spring has finally come and with that the days have gotten warmer and my plants are starting to make their annual appearance.  Best of all, my Grandmas peonies survived the questionable transplant we were forced to make last May.  Most, if not all of them are back, and that couldn’t make me happier.

The other sign of spring – “car season!”  Denny acquired a new toy recently and he’s been fixing it up with my Dad.  Denny wanted year correct plates on the car, which can’t be done in person at SOS any longer, so you have to mail in the application, along with the title, photo of the plate you intend to use, and of course a check.  It takes a couple weeks so we can’t do much other than look at the car.  Here is a photo I took the other night.  Denny is popular with kids.  (He is a great counter to my ability to scare children, lol.)

I’ve been anxiously awaiting my Ninabrook Designs DT package.  They are in Canada, and I’m the only DT member in the US, so things take a bit longer to get to me.  Hopefully it arrives soon, or samples are due April 19th.  Hey, Mr. Postman… the clock is ticking, I’m a scrapbooker on a deadline.  Actually, I don’t have a postMAN anymore, my dear USPS dude, Ron, left for a “better route” last summer.  Apparently, he had had enough working along my busy road and didn’t enjoy the several near misses he had with moving cars.  C’mon Ron – suck it up. *wink*  I only know this because I ran into him at our local McDonalds, while stopping for a gourmet lunch, and he apologized for not coming to say goodbye.  Awww, I miss Ron.  Now I have a postWOMAN, and she’s been on the job for a few weeks or so now.  We have a ton of temps, so I’m not sure if she is going to be my go to girl yet or not.  She often brings me the mail of people no where near me, and has given my neighbors my mail a few times now.  I’m not the mail police, so as long as I eventually get what I need… she and I are good.  I do like that she delivers my side of the street first though.  That means we get the mail about 10am instead of 4pm, again, it’s especially nice when it’s actually my mail.

Happy Thursday.  It is Thursday isn’t it?

~j