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March 12, 2006

things to come

It will be eighty degrees here today. The trees are in bud, the birds start singing at four-thirty in the morning, it's light when Moo heads out the door to the schoolbus. Bob comes into my bedroom and stands on his hind legs and looks out the window, which is at branch level. Later he and Spike sit on the upstairs deck railing, crouched in on themselves, observing the wildlife, but the wildlife generally ignores them, preferring to get ready for spring and everything spring means. It's a busy season.

This weekend I raked the yard, cleaned it up and got rid of the leaves, and exposed it as the dustbowl it is. We need rain, and in fact the air smells like rain, but so far only a scant few drops have fallen. The sky is blue and calm. It will be cold again by the end of the week, if the forecast can be believed.

Moo is playing lacrosse this year on the junior varsity team, and on Saturday evening he and I and his girlfriend and Herself went to the "face-off banquet." It was in the highschool cafeteria, there was a lot of food, and we listened to the coaches talk and took pictures and applauded for the boys in their new team uniforms, all gangly limbs and shaggy hair and so-so complexions and secret handshakes and embarrassed to be standing up in front of The Parents. It is still slightly unreal to think that Moo is my child. "Just think, Mom," he said to me, "somebody who came out of your uterus is going to be going to college in a few years!"

Posted by JudyLa at 11:30 PM | Comments (0)