Okay, so the usual signs are important in our household too. The daffodils are a cheery sight and I love to see more bird activity, listen to them singing. But there are some more significant annual milestones for us:
- First cutting of the lawn. This great family ritual usually involves me standing at the kitchen door, waxing lyrical about the wonderful cut grass smell and Akra moaning about yet another weekend chore that he gets to do for the next 7-8 months!
- First washing out of the year. After six months of continually tripping over the indoor airers, it’s fantastic to be able to hang stuff outside again for the half hour before it starts to rain.
- Most importantly, I’ve started to be able to reduce the time I’m using the SAD light for each morning. A whole extra five minutes spare to nag the kids into getting ready!
And you thought I had a dull life.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Tami // 8th Mar 2009 at 2:28 pm
Oh, I love the first cutting of the lawn also, but my husband does not. These men need to get with the program :)
I can’t wait until spring comes to stay. It was nice yesterday but it’s supposed to get very cold again this week.
2 Ys // 9th Mar 2009 at 11:54 am
We had the first washing out on the line day too… but then it started to rain within thirty minutes. Stupid weird weather.
Sadly we have no grass to cut… I’ll have to head back home for that smell.
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