Happy Spring and Happy Easter!

It’s a little unusual to have Easter fall just after the first day of Spring. Of course in these parts spring starts a few week earlier. First the Bradford Pear trees bloom, then the dogwoods and azaleas. I noticed today that the Bradford Pears have put out their leaves. Our weeping willow started greening up the 3^rd week of February. Early March our maple trees put out their blooms. Our big maple tree is full of seed – and the wind has been blowing them into our breezeway.

The cold that I came down the last week of February has moderated quite a bit but it isn’t completely gone just yet. There’s a lot of people around here walking around with what my doctor called the crud (an upper respiratory tract infections – a fancy name for a cold!).

I’m enjoying a four-day weekend. I had some vacation days to take (or lose). When I picked the days way back in February I didn’t realized it was Easter weekend – but that works out pretty well

After six weeks with no overtime and everyone’s backlog getting larger and larger – we finally got authorization to start working overtime again on March 10^th. I was enjoying just working 40 hours a week, but I can’t do my job in just 40 hours.

Got our taxes back from our preparer a couple of weeks ago. We’re getting a small refund from the state but have to pay several hundred dollars to the Federal Government. That’s one reason I’m not complaining about working overtime! I need the bucks!

My week of birthdays has become nearly two weeks of birthdays with 8 of them in 10 days. Wow!

I hope you and yours all have a happy and blessed Easter.

Take care & enjoy,
Florence

Spring is in the Air ….

Now that the calendar has moved to March – we are getting ready for spring in these parts. The signs started showing up a couple of weeks ago and now that we’ve going to have a pretty mild weekend, things should be getting ready to pop.

Only worked one day last week. I’m still fighting a nasty little cold that has kept me coughing for over a week straight. Went to the doctor Monday and he gave me a prescription for cough medicine. The medicine didn’t do anything for the cough but it did give me a really sour stomach. Tuesday I couldn’t keep any food in me. Wednesday I did manage to make it to work. Took more cold medicine that night which gave me a sour stomach again. I had already put in for a couple of vacation days so I went ahead and took them. Things finally starting looking up Thursday as I began to get some food in me. But the cough still lingers.

Well, I’ve got to get back to finding receipts for the items I sold on eBay last year – the annual search for cost of goods sold. I’d like to get our tax package over to the tax preparer Monday.

Take care & enjoy,

Florence