I seem to be confused these days, but in a good way. My expectations don’t match the calendar nor do my hours match the clock. Part of that is due to the weather, part is due to the earlier-than-used-to-be Daylight Savings Time, and part is due to the calendar.
In the first place, that lion that is so touted at the beginning of every March never really arrived last month. March came in more like a lamb and, though there were spates of rain and wind throughout the month, it went out with the best few days of weather we’ve had since last summer.
In fact, Easter Sunday on March 31st was so beautiful that the neighbors had an egg hunt in the church yard for their grandchildren. A little later we enjoyed a mid-day dinner al fresco at another neighbor’s! I think those were firsts in Oysterville, at least in my memory.
Then, too, the days are already lasting longer now that the clocks get set ahead in early March. That timing has been true for quite a few years now – since 2006 I think – but it still catches me by surprise each Spring.
The chickens are having a little adjustment problem, too. Since it’s still dark in the morning at the optimum time for me to feed and water them, I postpone those chores until a little later than they’d like. You’d think I’d mend my ways or adjust my life a bit rather than be greeted with such clucking and scolding each day! But… sorry, girls! That’s just the way it is.
And, even though the calendar tells me it is early April and time for those promised showers, the warm sunny weather continues. I’ve been spending my afternoons out in the garden weeding and seeding and dead-heading and feeling like it’s May. The weatherman says that will change today; the rains are coming.
Good! Maybe that will give all these biorhythms and weather cycles and time changes and cranky chickens a chance to settle down. I don’t mind being a fair weather gardener, but not for another few weeks yet…
The rain in Gig Harbor was not hard today, but any amount makes the highway a mess because modern tires throw so much water up. Never-the-less, I can say that the weather has been very pleasant and the rain will be good for all the bulbs and seeds that my gardner has planted at our Ilwaco house.