"singing in the rain"

Its cold, damp and raining today, however My heart is warm and I'm smiling at watching my little one put on his fathers galoshes and raincoat to take the puppy out. There is something so wonderful and whimsical about seeing little ones in bright "sunshine" yellow raincoats on the grayest days. I'm channeling Gene Kelly and thinking about joining my little one and go "singing in the rain"

Wordless Wednesday

Holy Cannoli

Spring, Spring, Spring! Love spring, if I made a list separating my likes and dislikes of spring my likes would run on for pages and pages, but... there would be a few dislikes. Number 1 being ROAD CONSTRUCTION. Currently the road I live on is under going a 2 year road expansion thanks to the governments great stimulus Package. I am happy for the jobs it creates and the money/revenue it generates into the local economy, but good golly do I hate the tie up in traffic. Let me explain, I work locally and often between clients I use my home as an office, so I am in and out all day long. I travel anywhere from 50-100 miles a day. So when I approach a construction site and the flagger turns that slow sign to a STOP, I cringe thinking about the precious time. I have for the last month thought there was a conspiracy (yes I know that make me sound like I have a big ego), that every time they see my vehicle approach they get a good laugh at making me stop. I stop and I wait, and I wait and I wait. If the flagger was a lip reader I'm sure he/she would not be impressed with what I am saying in the privacy of my car. This week the construction tripled with three different work sites set up along the road. I would get through one ,and was convinced that the flagger I had just left called the one a mile down the road to alert "she is coming turn the sign to stop". Sometimes I have to laugh at my paranoia, Im sure its all coincidence that every time my kia approaches they make me stop, but yesterday as a good faith gesture I tried my hand at bribery...
A busy day in store, schedule tight, I approached the first site and bam.. the dreaded flagger Stops me. I laugh thinking "oh yeah this is how its going to be", then I look over at the seat next to me, ah a box of cannolis. Thats when I did it, in good humor, I rolled down the window and offered my "enemy" (the flagger) a cannoli, surprised and impressed he took the bait, but alas the sign stayed on stop, and every time that day I approached it turned to ... STOP. So the lesson of the story is "Don't waste a good cannoli on bribing construction flaggers" :(

almost spring!

This weekend has been a perfect weekend! We got a small sampling of whats to come with spring. Everyone has spring fever including my old lazy dog Oreo who has traded in her warm seat next to the wood stove for sunbathing in the warm sun. The TV has been left off, traded in for bike riding and tossing the baseball back and forth in the backyard. Winter coats and boots remain in the hall traded in for fleece hoodies and sneakers. My husband is even considering firing up the grill, I believe burgers are on the menu. Next week we spring ahead and I cant wait!