SPRING SPROUTING

Spring is born in the chill of Winter.

I have a hair appointment tomorrow morning to get my hair snipped into shape … and I’m going hiking with a friend Friday if the rain calms down from a storm to a light drizzle. 

Right now, it is storming.

And the stormy weather is causing a great deal of chaos, frustrations, and damages.

Astoria, Hwy 30 landslide & info about pending landslides indicators inside the home, and outside property changes.

(https://katu.com/news/local/slides-reported-amid-soggy-start-to-2021-hwy-30-closed-near-astoria; https://www.thechronicleonline.com/news_free/update-landslide-highway-30-east-of-astoria/article_c137a4e8-4eca-11eb-822a-cf2b90054ace.html).

I was thinking about this stretch of road the other day – it is always a mess at some point along it; with water across the roadway, mudslides that close the road (one year, in the mid-1990’s, a mudslide actually slid a house right off it’s foundation, planting it smack dab in the center of the highway), and landslides. The PNW gets pretty saturated, and when saturation is intense, the land shifts and moves; best to stay home until mid-Spring.

So far, I don’t see any notifications for Skamokawa or Graysriver, concerning flooding or landslides.

But, I did see a post that interested me: and the date is suspect.

Letter to the Editor/Longview Daily News, March 18^th, 1969?

My family moved to Skamokawa from Grand Rapids, Minnesota in the summer of 1966 … the highway between KM & Cathlamet was “in” then; and people talked about it pretty excitedly: referring to it as “the new highway”: the new laid blacktop ran right past Ingalls Road, in Skamokawa, where we lived. The newspaper clipping says 1969, but I remember it being in waaay before that; from the KM Mountain to Crown Zellerbach, just outside of Cathlamet, coming from the Skamokawa end. It was before the Skamokawa School was closed, and kids were bused to Cathlamet. I remember clearly because the Fall of 1967 is when we started the school year here, and my eyes were treated to the man who walked past me one lunch break … and would become my husband 7 years later.

I love country life – I may live on the outskirts of Longview now (small town “city”), but my country heart is permanently tied to the country.

The kids and grandkids hate the country, and always talked condescendingly to us about our roots: but I am not ashamed of my country roots.

I wear my tomboy/boondocks background proudly 😉

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RxInn7tkRQ)

Earlier this morning, when I glanced out the windows along the front porch, I noticed hyacinth leaves, and tulip leaves, poking their way out of the soil 😊.

Grape Hyacinths sprouting in a container in the Leek garden box; I’ll separate the tiny bulbs after blooming has run its course, and replant them in my front flower beds, and in my tulip planter.

Tulips sprouting on the front porch. They will be a welcome “ray of sunshine” under the cloudy gray skies.

I also worked more rows on my Bazzar cache mitts – these mitts are my own design; they are working up quite nicely 😉.

Spring isn’t even here yet … and I’m busily working on Fall and Winter Bazaar items. LOL

MOD Zebra Print Mitts; half way mark.

Can’t wait to see the finished work!