weather pause

For several days now we've been warned: storms will pass through today and they wont be pretty. Well, okay, so I wont fix the garden and trim the lavender or plant the peas and strawberries or put in the bareroot plants that arrived here more than a month ago. Instead, I get to go back to good old paper work, trying to fix credit card issues and mistaken billing issues and travel refund issues right from the safety of my home and the comfiness of my couch.

But wait, first come the routines that are so familiar to you, to me! The walk to feed the animals and this time I concentrate on finding flower stems.

Then, eventually, the breakfast -- oatmeal and fruit. I can actually miss it because I've gone nearly two weeks without it! (With Ed, with Dance...)

And now comes the couch time.

It is unfortunate that the level of activity plummets after going so strong in the past days. Lengthy walks, constant movement -- few of us can sustain such intensity once we reenter the stream of daily life. Of course, spring and summer beg for big time outside, but we are not there yet. Today, we have to wait patiently for the storms to pass and to hope that we wont get the damage we've been warned about. 

I do have Snowdrop here after school and this too is part of our routine, including the mad dash (on Tuesdays) to ballet class. 

I'm glad the storms hold off during the day. No one likes driving back and forth when the weather person is talking about golf ball size hail and level XYZ tornadoes. We do have rain, but drivable stuff. It wont flood the roads. Yet.

Home again, waiting now for the night to pass, keeping fingers crossed and looking forward to the good weather that will return, well, probably tomorrow!