Green & Rain

The lawn has turned green, the lilac and trees have buds, and the flowerbed areas have come alive.  Spring is here, helped by good amounts of rain and thunderstorms.  Today will be our warmest day yet, getting to about 78ºF.  We had sun earlier today, but I didn't get a picture in time and now the clouds have moved back in and will be staying awhile.

Somehow it seems fitting that I have a terrible cold, just my luck.  I felt it coming on Friday and Saturday, but still felt good enough to stay active and get some things done.  I've been down for the count ever since.  I'm trying to feel better today, my wife even got me out of the house for a short walk.  I should be able to work tomorrow, but it may be a very long day.  I mentioned recently that I wanted to take a day or two off before my May vacation.  Well, this is it, I guess.

Last night's storm was pretty bad in areas, with downed trees and power outages across southern Wisconsin.  The warm temperatures will fuel more storms this evening, continuing overnight, and looks like plenty of rain yet tomorrow.  We'll have to keep an eye on the basement, but there's not as much to get up off the floor as there used to be.  Just two rugs, I think.

We saw the creek was pretty full on our walk, and flowing pretty well.  You know it's full when you can't see the rocks on the sides anymore.  Might be worth checking tomorrow evening after several more inches of rain.  I don't think we'll have any flooding issues like we had several years ago, 2018, but this is a lot of water in a short time.  Only two ducks spotted on the creek today.  And no spring burn this year, but not unusual because they did it last year and I believe they only do it every other year.

Not much else to say.  I'm feeling a bit better though still pretty tired.  I have until tomorrow morning then back to work, better or not.