You wait all winter for never-coming spring and then, like love in a John Green novel, it happens all at once.*
Those scribbled lists: to-do, to-order, to-clean, to-fix? Too late! If you didn’t order parts by February, April takes you by surprise. Never mind you couldn’t reach the icy beds to take proper measurements; your spring crops will have to do without those nifty British fruit cages. (Maybe for summer?)
Your desk looks like the aftermath of a Post-It party and there’s an urgent need for triage in your overloaded calendar. Why do we have to prep taxes when garden beds are calling? Can’t dust bunnies huddle a little bit longer? Wouldn’t you rather be outside, hands in soil, straightening snow-spavined fences, pulling up last year’s memories, sowing new stories in the wet, cold, waiting earth.
Yeah.
Those dishes can sit.
*In “A Fault in Their Stars”, Green makes the comparison that falling in love is like falling asleep but maybe spring is more like falling awake?
Copyright 2015, Lori Fontanes
What the Ducks! 
Spring has already come for us and all I’ve done is work in the garden. I am thankful for the rainy week ahead to get some inside work done.
Enjoy your garden. The dust bunnies will still be there!
And all their relatives!!! 🙂
There’s a whole lot of truth in those sentences…let’s get out there and get dirty! 😉
Woo hoo!!!
What a difference a month makes! Your ducks must also be very excited. Do they dig up any of your seeds? My sister’s chicken wreaks havoc in the garden.
Well, there are two reasons why the ducks haven’t dug up any seeds in my garden– 1) I don’t plant directly into the ground, everything is in planters, usually fenced and 2) I haven’t planted any seeds in my garden yet. But I’m thinking about it. 😉
So glad to hear spring has arrived. So right – those dishes and all the housework can wait:)
And wait… 🙂
leaves changing colour here…….. love the John Green reference.
Terry
Ah, fall! My favorite time of year!
me too….. thanks for the positive words…. feeling a bit better….. new anthology to be published in a couple of days….. fingers crossed. Terry
Yay!!!
Nothing like spring’s arrival to make one regret being a procrastinator. 😉
*sigh* true, true!
my vote-stuff the dust bunnies-LOL…I am outside! How did you know what my computer desk looked like at this time of the year—seeds every where!LOL
I swear I just guessed! No computer surveillance involved!!! 😉
Loved this! We have little suns shining in our forecast, so you can bet I’ll be letting a lot of dishes sit (as per usual!) so I can frolic and garden outdoors!
Enjoy!!! 🙂