1) Remembrance of a favorite spring day.

Faunapalooza!

2) Something you're looking forward to in the next month.

I'm going to Canberra this coming weekend for my sister's wedding. My older brother gets out of prison this week too, so I'll be seeing him for the first time since M's funeral, and he should be pretty clear-headed. Of course, sister is still loopy, but the guy she's marrying is a good bloke. My nephew adores him.

I can't think of a specific Spring day memory, but next month the DH and I are meeting my sister and her family in Yosemite, so I'll get to spoil a niece and nephew while enjoying the great outdoors.

David, this will cheer you up: I got my hair cut this weekend.

Hell yeah! Looks great on you, SA. Thank you!

I'll contribute as well.

Spring Day: Second semester of my junior year in college I got buried under late papers and had to fight and fight to finish everything. It was a six week blur of all-nighters and extensions and the day I turned the last paper in I remember walking back along middle-path and all this pressure lifted off me. I looked up for the first time in it seemed like forever and it was Spring. Mid-morning sun warmed everything and cast dappled shadows on the path, flower were in bloom, and the breeze was in my face and I just felt so happy and free.

Looking forward to: Baseball starting! I get a whole section of the newspaper back. For me, it's like cracking open a big, amazing novel loaded with characters and suspense and incident and right now I'm just in the foreward and list of characters.

You're welcome. :)

Spring Day -- Yesterday. Walking down the street in Paris with one of my best friends in the world, talking about nothing, eating a really good sandwich from a street vendor and enjoying a gorgeous, sunny day.

You're welcome. :)

Do you like it? It's adorable. I don't think I've seen it that short on you before.

Spring Day -- Yesterday. Walking down the street in Paris with one of my best friends in the world, talking about nothing, eating a really good sandwich from a street vendor and enjoying a gorgeous, sunny day.

Anytime you can write "Yesterday. Walking down the street in Paris..." you've got an excellent start on a memorable spring day.

Note to self: sandwiches and spring days seem to work well together.

SA! Nice haircut!!!!!!

1) Remembrance of a favorite spring day.

There's no real specific one -- just, when I think Spring, and Yay, I think of the first softball practice of the year, even though we're all out of shape and sore and stiff and it's still kind of cold and almost always muddy, but it doesn't matter because softball means that the winter is over over over, even if it gets cold again one last time, winter really is on the way out, and what's more, winter KNOWS it's on the way out, and even the mud smells good, all rich and fertile and loamy.

2) Something you're looking forward to in the next month.

SA is coming up this weekend -- YAY!

VW -- I use garlic to combat a yeast infection, I'll white font the details

This sounds weird and like it wouldn't work but I had a linger yeast infection and this worked fast. You take a whole peeled clove of garlic and wrap it in some cheesecloth and then tie it up with dental floss (preferably unwaxed) and insert it like you would a tampon. Do this for several nights. I was highly skeptical but willing to try anything and I felt relief after the first night.

A good spring day...hm...

I'm gonna pick the day I graduated from high school. It was a beautiful day. I looked great (the gowns were purple, which is a fabulous color on me). My family was all there. My boyfriend and his family were all there. Oh, and I got an award that I was not expecting. I think it was called the Musician of the Year award. I got another award, but I knew I was getting that one. It had already been announced. And, I don't remember what it was. That one really stuck with me...

It's kind of cool, but because I went to a really small school, 13 in my graduating class, graduation was a really big deal for each student. Each student got called to the platform for their diploma, and all of their accomplishments were read. I think it made some people nervous, but I liked it. It was like all that hard work was worth it and getting acknowledged.

Too bad I threw it all away...

Ok...what I'm looking forward to in the next month...the unveiling of this month's quilt pattern. I'm doing a mystery quilt-of-the-month with one of the local quilt shops, and it is much fun. Of course, I need to try to get February's quilt done before March's is introduced. But, well, these legs have been hurting too much to sew. So, I'll just do my best. I don't want to get behind, though.

1) Remembrance of a favorite spring day. I have two.

The week after Easter six years ago, I spent the day with a close acquaintance while her husband was out of town. We spent about 5 hours sitting in a park next to a mountain creek and talking. By the end of the day, she had become one of my best friends and my views of religion, particularly of Christianity, had completely changed. It was one of the pivotal moments in my life.

Probably nearly two years later, in early spring, I was out walking with a friend near one of the local glaciers. Because the freezing weather had made the lake lower than usual, we were able to walk almost out to the runoff waterfall. While my friend stood a bit away talking to some friends that we met out there, I went to the edge of the land and stood just at the edge of the spray of the waterfall. While I was standing there, it started to snow, huge, fluffy flakes. It was so beautiful that I just stood there, laughing out loud for joy.

2) Something you're looking forward to in the next month. My birthday and, in just over a month, Easter.

This was a fantastic idea, Hec. Thanks!