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April 15, 2008
Before you know it...
It's a beautiful, nearly perfect spring day. Clear blue skies, sunshine, 50-ish degrees and hardly any breeze. So there I was, sitting outside on the deck in a t-shirt, doing a little reading on African American rhetoric, and before you know it I was completely distracted by a small bird feathering a nest he built in the rafters of the arbor.
And then before you know it I have a rake in my hand, and then a wheelbarrow emerges from the shed, and leaves are being cleared from garden beds and fence gates and other winter gathering spots, and before you know it I'm out behind the fence, tidying up the now dead stalks leaning over said fence with no bugs to assault me in my efforts, and before you know it the whole line of the back fence looks changed, and the burn pile looks much bigger, and the tarp is off the compost heap, and green things are spotted throughout the several gardens.
And before you know it, I've done more than I should have, and it will hurt, but what a great way to overstress the back. A marvelous, delightful spring afternoon.
Posted by cageyer at April 15, 2008 08:16 PM
Comments
The fever that hit you yesterday afflicted many. That fever is named "sunshine without cold." Many gardeners' muscles shall ache today.
Posted by: Becky Howard at April 16, 2008 08:31 AM