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I love Wednesday's because I get to sit and think. There is time to get the laundry washing and then I can sit and gather my thoughts and write. If I try to write daily, I get overwhelmed. There is something about self-imposed goals that just make me shrivel to a pile of squirmy nothingness. Last year it was photography 365. Fail. This year was 52 weeks, a photo a week. Fail. And then I decided to take on NaBloPoMo for February, thinking it would be a month of sitting inside wishing I was outside so of course I could write one measly post a day. Fail again!
But it's Wednesday! Once a month on Wednesday afternoon, it's Karen Day. And here I am. Thinking about how I'm going to write this post but at the same time my shutter finger is itchy and there are signs of spring out in my garden, on February 15th. Maybe there is something to global warming after all. But in my limited weather knowledge I do know that we are in a pattern, a warmer pattern that has my garden confused. I did get up just now to go look and see what's going on out there, and sure enough, my tulips and daffodils are pushing through the ground.
I don't know if it's going to stay on the warm side this winter, if it does, that is ok with me. I'm really getting eager to get out and garden. Last year at this time, I was getting ready mentally for a lumbar spinal fusion and quitting smoking. This year I am pain free and recovered enough that I can get back to my garden! (and tobacco free to boot! thank you green smoke!)
Michael has a friend that we bartered with last summer, and this guy, nice guy named Tom, tended my gardens when I was recuperating and forbidden to bend. It was a rough, depressing summer with no gardening. The pre surgery pain was gone, but the fear of hurting myself was (and still is) very present in my mind so I've been really careful, behaving, not bending whenever I can avoid it and I think I'm totally healed from the fusion surgery, so lookout gardens, I'm back!
Wednesday is a double edged sword for me because I would really like to be with my daughter and her boys, but they sleep in the afternoon when I am available after my monthly meeting with the management team from our office. But I'll be over to hang with the babies tomorrow so I won't lament today...besides, I'm celebrating that I can sit and compose. Of course I do have photos to share of the babies.
Quinn wasn't feeling well yesterday. I asked him to show me what hurts and he pointed to his head. He was running a low fever. Nikki said that he is better today.
This is Nikki and Gavin recently. He's starting to belly laugh: the sweetest sound on earth is your grandson and your daughter laughing. :)
And here is Michael. He is down 30 pounds since he started dieting. I'm very much in awe of him and very proud that he is working so hard and sticking to this exercise program he started. He doesn't let a day go by without working out. And he rarely drinks. That is such a gift to me. :) 
Yesterday I was awarded the Versatile Blogger award from Laine, and an invitation to an imaginary dinner party to meet my sister bloggers. Me! And how cool would that party be, meeting all of you! I have trouble accepting gifts like this. But thank you! I feel very unworthy of accepting any writing awards. I compare myself to you, all of you that I read and follow and I aspire to be like, to be good enough, to be recognized as a photo-journalist/blogger. I want to be as good as you all are, you ladies and gentlemen who grace my days with
