Don't you just love spring? To me, 'spring' is kinda like 'Friday'. Because if you think about it, 'spring' is filled with wonderful anticipation. That feeling that something really great is coming. And that something really great, is 'summer'! Fridays are like that too. People love Fridays because Fridays are one step closer to Saturdays. So, when you really think about it, 'summer', is like 'Saturday'. Because now you are right into the good stuff. Best time of the year. Best day of the weekend. Continuing on with this theme, (unless of course I have lost your attention, which is quite possible by now) . Now lets move on to 'autumn'. 'Autumn', naturally, is like a 'Sunday'. Its still pretty nice, you're still enjoying it, its still like a weekend, but........there is that nagging feeling that very soon...its all going to come to an end. Autumn = Sunday. 'Autumn' turns into .... 'WINTER'. Ugh. 'Sundays'.....turn into 'MONDAYS'. Double 'ugh'. And now, finally ... WINTER. Winter, is 'Monday'. Enough said about that. So, in summary:
'Spring' is 'Friday'
'Summer' is 'Saturday'
'Autumn' is 'Sunday'
'Winter' is 'Monday'
This is the point where people usually tell me that I have too much time on my hands.
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The above picture of 'crocus' was taken in my garden about an hour ago. I am a gardening nut and I love the fact that this past-time has become so popular!! The recession has been ridiculously difficult for everyone, but some good things have surfaced as a result of the economic downturn- like people's desire to get down and dirty in the garden. A news story came out this week suggesting that a $70 investment in tools, soil, plants, etc would eventually yield about $500 worth of vegetables! Putting in a vegetable garden has never made more sense.
I don't have a vegetable garden. I have a daylily garden, a rock garden, a zen garden, a sloped garden, and a patch of 'anything goes' , but I've never had a vegetable garden. I might have to make one this year. I'll start with zucchini. I want to see if I can grow one of those 4 foot long zucchini. Or a 500 pound pumpkin. Or a 300 pound turnip. Since my husband doesn't really like vegetables, I may as well make my vegetable garden like some sort of science experiment gone wrong.
Earth Day is coming up this Wednesday! I love the fact that retailers are starting to put the brakes on plastic bags. I do own cloth grocery bags but I admit that I often forget to bring them to the store with me. Its just so easy to accept those horrible plastic bags. But as of Wednesday, Loblaws is going to start charging (I think its 3 cents?) per plastic bag. Not a huge price to pay for a bag, but it does send a message. Walking out of a store with your groceries stuffed into 10 plastic bags is soon going to be akin to throwing an empty Coke can out the window of your car. It just won't be socially acceptable. Experts knock us over the head with information about climate change and the environment. But the most effective way to get people to pay attention? Have us turn on each other. Sure, as of Wednesday, you will still be able to get plastic bags at the grocery store. But if you continue to use plastic bags, you may get icy stares. Other cloth-bag-using shoppers will look at you with disdain. Some may even snort at you. Al Gore really got the climate change ball rolling with his 'Inconvenient Truth'. But I guarantee that the single most important revolution towards a positive future for our environment, is having someone snort at you because you are using a plastic bag.
