Glorious Fecundity

It's melting!! It's melting!! I can once again see the patio furniture that I didn't get under cover in time, and the brown, dead-looking trumpet vine that is soon to be replaced with a clematis as soon as I can dig it out, and the rest of my decaying pumpkins that I used as place holders for the chicken wire that I didn't need after all to keep the squirrels away from my tulip bulbs. We've exchanged the snows of Colorado for the swamps of Florida and I couldn't be happier.

So what that Teddy can't be bothered to wipe his feet when he returns from his adventures! Who cares that a skunk apparently courted his beloved under our bedroom window last night and managed to stink up the entire house! I'm delighted that I'll have to scrub the snot off the siding where poor old Arnold cleared out his sinuses all winter. I didn't need the recently arrived flock of robins to deliver the news. Spring is coming!