peeping out from under the rock...
Laura N.
Who decided that springing forward should coincide with the first week of Lent. Whoah dude…intense. I was so tired yesterday that I got up at 6 said my morning prayers and instead of exercising for 30 minutes, I plopped on the couch and slept for another hour and a half. Then, I took another nap yesterday afternoon. The Friday afternoon nap has become a regular part of my weekly schedule since I went back to work.
Speaking of springing forward, we’re definitely springing around here. My “Egyptian onions” have pushed up from the ground and the stalks are about a foot tall now. The daffodils are up and so is the sweet woodruff. The mint and lemon balm should be showing their sprouts any time now. Sadly, I think I basically killed my lemon verbena tree, rosemary and thyme by bringing them inside this winter. I think they would’ve fared better outside. Oh well…live and learn. I should get some seeds going so they can be in the ground in time for a good long growing season.
We flew Ana’s kite today as it was the perfect weather for the endeavor. There’s something magical about the kite soaring up into the air. It seems so fantasmical, string wood and in our case, plastic…flying. Why has man always been so obsessed with flying? There’s an interesting movie from soviet era Russia called Rublev’s Pupil, that starts out with a man attempting to fly a balloon. The rest of the movie is about a monk who struggles to attain holiness under extraordinarily difficult circumstances (at least that’s what I took from the movie). Perhaps that’s what the obsession with flying is about; the struggle to free our souls from the extraordinarly difficult circumstance of our bodily existence. Lent and kite flying just might go together.
Other than traipsing through the first week of Lent, there’s not much to report around here. Ana has read through all of the Samantha and Kristen American Girl books and is now starting on the Molly books. David is obsessed with the Green Lantern hero. So…the kids are being kids. I’m reading Brother’s K. Again. It’s becoming a Lenten habit.
Have a lovely first weekend of Lent…blessings…
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Oh, I haven't flown a kite for ages: I am going to have to again.
We haven't 'fallen back' yet; at the end of March. So, sorry, we get an extra hour for Great Lent. :)
Prayers for you and the family this Lenten season.
We did the same thing with our rosemary two summers ago -- brought it inside, thinking we were "helping" it. It was huge (18" tall by 12" in diameter) and within a few weeks, it was dead. :(
Last summer's rosemary wasn't quite as large, but still very healthy, so we left it outside and piled lots of mulch and leaves around it. So far, it's still doing fine! I'm cautiously optimistic, however, because last year we had that late frost that killed all kinds of formerly-healthy stuff.
I do know that thyme loves to be outdoors, though. You can't kill that stuff! It grows like a weed in our yard, and I have been seen rooting through the underbrush in January, clipping stalks to stuff inside a chicken . . .
It was a hard week around here too with the time change and first week of Lent. Maybe we've adjusted now, I'm not sure yet. I am glad things are starting to poke out! William made a birdhouse in cub scouts and we hung it up today right outside our window...nothing says warm weather like baby birds!
I agree, it was a nasty how do you do to have them coincide.
Kite flying! How lovely!