It’s Spring Break in San Antonio, and I barely noticed.  Correct me if I’m wrong, but I know I’m not, shouldn’t Spring Break happen during the Springtime?  Just a thought.

I really do enjoy times when the incarcerated children aren’t required to report, because that means we won’t be glared at over the fence by all our neighbors if we dare to venture out into our back yard during “school hours”.

I would have chosen a different week for it.  Maybe sometime during the next season called Spring.  Just sayin’.

Even so, we have had some uncommonly beautiful weather the past several days.  It’s due to rain maybe  tomorrow or more likely, Saturday.

You’ll remember that I’m not planting a garden this Spring due to our imminent move sometime in June.  But there is something very compelling about all that sunshine.  I’m planting a container garden, but that’s so limited.  I’ve never done a container tomato plant before, peppers either.  I still haven’t planted the lettuce and spinach seeds, but the buckets are ready.

We’re looking for lots of baby rabbits next weekend.  See?  Rabbits understand about Spring.

Parsley outside my backdoor!

El Niño, La Niña,  whatever, I forget how it goes, but I think that due to the oppressive heat we had this Summer, we are having a very wet Winter.  Or maybe the wet Winter is a harbinger of a mild Summer to come?  I don’t know, but we have had rain near ’bout every four days ’round these parts all Winter long!  I’ll try not to complain because I know we have it very easy in the Winter.  This is our time to shine!   We seldom get snow, and when we do, it’s hardly anything to worry about.  Also, the rain we’ve gotten lately is sorely needed.  So, I’ll try to not sound too whiney.  OK?  I’ll try.

Never buy plastic fencing, even though it’s cheaper than the wire fences.

BUT!

I’m really sick of the mud, and the kids being in the house so much.  See, one of the trade offs that Texans are so proud of is that even though we huddle indoors listening to the humm of the a/c for most of the Summer, which, by the way, lasts about eight months here, the pay off comes in the Winter when we can enjoy the truly mild (yesterday the high was 79°) field trip weather.  Perfect for going to the Zoo, or bird watching, or cleaning up a long neglected backyard!

I’ve had it with the rain and the resultant mud, and we have mud!  After our record breaking heat and drought this past Summer, there is no lawn, just mud Mud MUD!

Rabbit cages, clothes lines, and dirt lawn – it’s the Redneck Tri-fecta!

Today is a great day.  It’s sunny, dry and 50°, so there is work going on out back.  If I had focused on laundry instead of rabbit breeding this morning I might have even hung some laundry on the line.  That’s ok, first things first.

Tomorrow the forcast calls for more mud in the form of rain AND snow.  I have my doubts about the white stuff.  My kids have still never even seen it, and likely some of them doubt if it’s a really and truly real thing.  At least we’ll enter into this weeks wetness with a cleaned up yard!

I don’t know why I did it this way, making it last a whole week.  I know some of y’all have forgotten.  Some have lost interest.  some weren’t even aware there was a giveaway.

So I decided to post a reminder.

Go to my post titled New Phone Service? and leave me a helpful bit of advice in the comments.

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My van is gone!  Yay!

You’ll remember that our old, beat up, huge van broke down for the last time in May.  My plan was to donate it to charity right away, but that plan was foiled due to clutter obscuring my extra sensory perception failing to discern the location of the title.  GRR!!!

This past Saturday we got a visit from our friendly City Code Compliance Officer!  Turns out there’s a law ‘gainst having a non-working vehicle on the premises.  We were given ten days notice.

THAT got the title found in a big hurry!  Took us about 2 hours, but Hubs finally located it under some clutter he had stacked up for no good reason.  Never mind, the clutter is all put away thrown out now.

And while I was searching in my files for the title I found the number for the Purple Heart Car Donation Program, where we sent our last Suburban when it died.

I know, I kinda personify my cars, but y’all, when you have to drive a car that seats 8 or more, and you’re on a tight budget, you find you are very appreciative when you have one that works out!  So appreciative that it leans toward personification.  I don’t name my vehicles.  That’s just too far for me.  But I will tell you that I refer to my new white Suburban as “My lovely Suburban” almost every time I talk about it.  That’s not weird, right?  RIGHT???

Anyway, the point of all this meandering is that yesterday was the day!  The tow truck arrived!  The man loaded our old van and drove away!

I’m so relieved!  It’s wonderful to not risk a fine from the ridiculous Code Compliance folks, but more than that, it’s another big step in our preparation for moving house!