Winter sucked this year. For about four or five months, our world has been a moonscape of ice. There are still mounds of dirty snow in the edges of the supermarket parking lot. Nasty, evil dirty snow. We hates it.

This was then.

This is now. Rose bush trimming…

And all sorts of chores. Because spring makes me happy, and when I’m happy, I put my husband to work steaming off wallpaper in the bathroom. Yay!

I’m covered in a fine powder of spackle at the moment. I’m getting quotes on a new roof and a small retaining wall, so there’s much business around here. Good business.