Such a nice day. Sunny, birds singing, gentle breeze blowing, lovely fluffy white clouds sailing across a beautiful blue sky. Just makes me so happy to be alive! I got up before Dave, Bubba and Boy - Jesse had already left for work at 6:30 this morning, and kept company by the cats made brunch. It seemed like a good day for muffins from scratch, so I had a lovely cup of coffee while I mixed up the batters.

After I made some spice muffins, blueberry muffins and the evil chocolate muffins, I sat in the sun by the back door, sniffing a spring breeze, eating chocolate and drinking Earl Grey Tea . . . what a good way to start a day.

Then, Bubba and I hung out in the yard, chatting. She had brought out her art pad and pencils to draw but just lay in the sun and talked while I knitted. It was good time. Tombo came by to visit us and roll in the gravel.

We could hear Boy and Dave talking inside about military strategy, then about the game they were playing together online. It got up to a very rare 71 degrees today, and the ground was quite wet as it was melting up. The river was roaring and Bubba went on down and found or woodstove and dock which had been swept away in the big flood a few months back. She took great joy in wading down the river and floating one of the dock pieces back up, then dragging it up onto shore. She plans to get Kyle to help her drag up the other dock piece and the woodstove on Monday, and then they'll trek down the river a little later to the swamp and see if they can find the rest of the dock and our adirondack chairs which were also swept away.

Sunset came to quickly for us who are sun-starved, but we can still hear the birds calling every now and then as they go to sleep. The Great Horned Owls are nesting, so they are calling, and we get to hear the screeching of amorous raccons along the riverbed. The foxes are also barking, so the sounds of life are all around us - a lullaby I enjoy. Except for the racoons.