T Stands for Winter to Spring

      Hi everyone. Happy new week to you. And hello to everyone who stops by Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog for T day.

    Last week I started some of my spring chores like taking out some warm weather clothes from the deep recesses of the closet and putting the heavy winter ones away in their place.  I even started  a bit of yard clean up. 😏

    Other than this past Tuesday which was the day we got an inch of snow, 

we had some beautiful weather last week. It felt like spring-finally! ❤❤❤❤❤

    The door even came off the screen porch and we brought a few chairs outside. Of course, in our one-day little snow event they didn't look very inviting. 😒

  It didn't take long for most of the snow to melt, and hopefully that is it for winter weather.  Last week I went out walking several times. One day I went with friends and then we grabbed lunch but of course I forgot to take any photos. 😉A couple of times I went up to my mother-in-law's home and walked the dogs.

  The previous time I had been there ( to my mother-in-law's home) was 3 weeks before, and the lake looked like this.

    Last Monday I went walking and it looked like this.

   The water still looks cold, but at least the ice is gone.  😏

  Besides the usual spring clean up around my now empty mother-in-law's home, part of this tree came down. I think the rest needs to be taken down too.  It is the one is missing a lot of bark to the right of the lamppost.

    When I went back later in the week (after the little snow event we had) I decided to walk the snowmobile trail because it gets more sun than the road. There were still a few slightly snowy, slightly muddy parts on the road, but I only hit one snow patch on the trail. 

   It was a lovely walk because I didn't meet a single person. I really enjoyed some peaceful time with only some birds singing and the wind slightly  rustling the dried ash leaves still dangling from their branches. 

   At home we have more signs of spring too.  The crocuses are starting to bloom and

lilies and irises are popping up.

   I decided to give a quick rake to this wildflower garden because I do have some daffodils growing there, and last year I never cleaned it out.  It scared Mama Bluebird out of her nest for a few minutes.  I saw her watching me from a nearby tree, and as soon as I walked away, she flew back in. It's not a good photo, but you can just see the base of the bluebird house at the top of the white post.  I also know it's not a great raking job, but in another month or so the plants will have filled in this whole area and I didn't want to keep Mama Bluebird from her nesting business for  too long.

    If you didn't see yesterday's post, the bees' winter enclosure is down, and the bees are living their best bee lives. 

   The other event we always wait for is when the local ice cream window opens up for the season. 😀

  I didn't get a sundae, but for our Sunday lunch the hubby and I each got a dish of ice cream. ❤

   I need a drink for T day this week. Last Friday night the hubby and I had a shopping date night. 😉 We went over to Costco in Maine to get a few things, and we ended up having dinner there too. I had a slice of pizza, and you can see my cup with my Diet Coke in it.

 Plus the spring peepers (a type of frog) are peeping me to sleep at night now, and there are more birds coming back. After the way this past winter went, I had  a very exciting week.

   How about you? Have a super start to the new week and Happy T day too.