Fall Back, Spring Forward

It has been a busy weekend. I have been prepping two separate newsletters to go out this week. I also had the service at our little church for the third week in a row. That kind of work is mentally exhausting. It actually sucks out all my "desire-to-write" and dries me up like an old prune. But I now have two weeks of time without having to write anything so hopefully I can be a little more blog centered. I haven't been particularly blog centered lately and if is starting to bug me.

I like writng on my blog and miss it when I don't get a chance to write here but the same thing happened last spring and since I've only been keeping this blog for a year and a half I haven't had more time to see if this spring bloglessness is a trend. Spring of course is always a busy time. We all adjust by getting outdoors again, which means having to leave other things behind. Last year at this time, I was blogging about our house renovation and we certainly don't have anything like that this year to occupy us.

There is still a lot of snow around on the ground and patches of ice every day I see more and more ground/grass showing through. We can still have heavy snow falls... and it would not necessarily come as a surprise. Last year we had a pretty good one in the latter part of April.
More and more garbage is showing through the snow and I'll be glad when we can get out there to rake and clean up. Spring is always a time of mess and despite that I can't contain my pleasure at being able to wear light outer wear and seeing the snow slowly disappear. I just hope we don't get any spring dumps of snow.

You may have noticed that to the left I am no longer following the sunrise and sunset time.... this is because with spring very obviously on the way, daylight seems to be less interesting. Also it is already daylight when I wake... what's the point of following it anymore.... I usually lose track once the time change occurs anyway. So how does it feel to be on a new time? Did you all sleep past when you were supposed to... That's one of the nice things about where I live. I don't have to worry about time change.... you see I live in one of the only parts of the country that doesn't recognize Daylight Savings Time. So Saturday night when millions were fixing their clocks we just went to bed and didn't worry about it at all... I think it is great.

So with the weather turning spring-like I am thinking it is time to take off those Christmas pounds I put on and have been struggling to rid myself of. So my plan is to walk two and a half kilometres each day starting today. I'm also on a strict food regimen of 1300 calories a day. My goal is to lose 30 pounds before I head off to Olds College. I wonder if I'll reach it.

So the sun is up, and Hubby and the girls are headed off to school.... I had better get to it... a day of the big j.c. plus a nice walk to start with.....