Magic

My computer magically started working again. One of my daughters bargained with the ghost that occasionally visits my house (used to live here, actually), and my computer started working again (of course there's more to this story and really we're not crazy and my ghost just wanted me to get more rest, I think, but it's ok because I promised her I would and how can you lie to a ghost when you never know when she will be watching you, right?) None of my clocks started working however. And they all weren't electric, 2 were battery operated so it wasn't a power surge that knocked everything out.

So....Hello.

Spring has snuck up on me. The lilac bush in the corner of my yard is blooming and that wonderful purple smell just reaches out and grabs me every time I am anywhere near it. I was at Target last week and this rather large young woman squeezed her very ample bottom into a teeny tiny short very tight little skirt that left nothing to the imagination...and her high heels clicked along across the parking lot and men were literally stopping in their tracks and staring at her as she walked by. I don't think it was because they thought she was overwhelmingly attractive. There was rather a consensus of unbelief in their stares. My lilac bush is kind of like that young woman. Any time I get near the lilac bush, I am pulled toward it and I can't help but stare at it with my nose. I'm helplessly attracted to it. The large hussy in the corner of my yard.

I started my garden again. I planted peas several weeks ago, but alas, only four scrawny little pea plants came up (OK, you were right, it was too cold to plant peas, I admit it). So I transplanted them to a shady part of the garden and replanted another whole package of peas to go along with them and planted tomatoes where the peas were because that side of the porch gets more sun. So we'll see if I get peas. I also planted some zucchini. I have other things I want to plant as well, but have much work to do before I can put much more in the ground.

I'm so glad to be back.