Waiting for Spring

It's 10 days until the official start of spring. I'm keeping an eye on the weather to see if reality can keep up with the calendar. So far it doesn't look too wintery. But it also doesn't look too warm.

This time of year we play a game, a race between the propane and the weather. This year the weather won. We try not to fill the propane in the spring, because we use it only for heating and it costs about $500 to fill. So for the last days of winter we use electric heat. More expensive day-to-day, but it keeps us from tying up all that money for half of the year. And, of course, moving two full bottles of propane to the new house.

That project is also waiting for the end of winter. As you can see, when the warm weather comes the Brooks Bunch will be five very busy people. As opposed to now when we're all sitting around doing nothing. Hoo boy!

There is so much snow and hard-packed ice that even the sunny days, the warmer days, and the rainy days (which do not always coincide) fail to bring much relief. The driveway is still a slippery walk, the front of the new house is still inaccessible, and we still have to back the cars in every night because there's no place to turn them around.

Can you tell we're ready for spring?