Ray Wylie Hubbard and Spring and Cell Phone Numbers

Ernie and I wrote an article for Smile Politely on the inimitable Ray Wylie Hubbard coming to town.  Go read it but be kind....  Can't wait for the show on Monday---I think it's going to be wonderful.  Got home from work yesterday and spent most of yesterday evening just sitting in our front yard chatting with friends and watching the kids scramble all over.  It really is pretty much as good as it gets....and it even smelled good with everything blooming and the fresh cut grass....

And that is as much as is going on in my mind today.  Weekend ahead which has kind of crept up on me as I've been so busy this week.  I have to go to a work dinner tonight but after that we really have no plans other than doing a million errands and the like.  Farmers' market, put some plants and seeds in the ground, get Owen to his guitar lesson, go to Saturday lunch with the boys.  Should I think about my mother's house?  Nahhhh.  I know I need to get going and clean it out and sell it but after obsessing about it for awhile after her death, right now I just feel like I need to step back for a bit.  It still feels so funny when I reach for the phone to call her and have to pull my hand back.  I'll start feeling guilty and all of a sudden realize there's no need for guilt....she's not there.  The other day I added a number to my cell phone and decided I could go ahead and delete the nursing home's number.  I did and the next number below it was my sister Judi's.  I haven't cried about her in a bit but that did it to me.  It just was a shock to see it and think, well, I guess I should delete that too.  Of course I didn't though.  I want to see her name there.  It's just those glancing moments that pop up and you feel that pain, and then you move on because that's what you have to do.

  

and look----the arugula is up!

 

and in the ongoing Peony Watch 2010: