springtime

I do love spring!! It is my favorite time of the year. There is something special about everything coming back to life again after a LONG winter.

My husband is a LAWN LOVER. Already this spring he has managed to spend a lot of money getting our lawn ready for the upcoming competition. What competition, you ask? He wants to win the award of the "best looking lawn on the block". And for the past 9 years he has won first place - mainly because no one else is officially in his imaginary competition.
We have been discussing having a lawn service again this year. Every fall he tells me that he might not do the lawn service again - but every spring when they call to give him an offer he can't refuse - he simply can't refuse. Those salesmen know exactly what to say to sucker him in. I admit it - they are smooth. And in the end - the lawn does look good.
I can appreciate a nice lawn and I enjoy my part of planting flowers and doing minor landscaping but it is not as important to me as it is to him. He is like a little kid right now on Christmas Eve. He knows it is going to rain this week and the anticipation of that is so exciting for him. He has raked and aerated and over seeded and is now out there doing something else with some other loud piece of lawn equipment. To get that all done just before a nice spring rain will be perfect! I can see his little boyish grin now.
We are a good balance for each other. I can sit in the kitchen on my laptop and blog while he is out there working on getting another trophy for the mantle. We are both doing something we enjoy!
Happy Spring, everyone.