Spring in Tennessee

It's spring in Tennessee.

The flowers and trees are awake again and are they a sight.
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I have been travelling a lot in the last month to and from various appointments and as I was driving the other day I was enamored by the trees.

They were swaying in the warm summery breeze and undulating in such a way that it looked like they were stroking each other's hair. Almost as if they were saying to each other, I missed you so much, I am so glad that you are here. There was such emotion in the movements.

The trees are covered in little white and pink and purple blossoms and vibrant new green leaves. They look soft-focused and like they would be fuzzy and soft to touch.
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There is a ground cover that grows here in the early spring and it's purple. There is a farm on the way home that is blanketed with it from the front porch to the road. I can't even come up with words to describe what a joy it is to drive past it and see that lavender field.
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The fog in the mornings is so ethereal and moving. I want to get up at 6AM every day just to see it, but I am afraid that it would lose it's awe if I did.
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I am just smitten with Tennessee in the spring.

My Survey

I was spring cleaning my Yahoo drafts and noticed that I had started composing my own very survey months ago. I was so busy living that I forgot to get busy blogging!

So, here is my fun and exciting survey. I have provided my answers to it in italics, please feel free to blogment your answers, I really do want to know!

poofs or crunchy?
stale poofs, all the way baby!

kraft macaroni & cheese or velveeta shell's & cheese?
kraft, hot and a little bit runny and the second day a little cold. But I love the first two bites of steaming hot shells and cheese...

heinz ketchup or hunt's catsup?
nothing tastes like heinz

downey or snuggle?
downey, something about the name...

spring rain or summer rain?
summer rain-it's warm, you can play in it, and it smells good.

smell of spring in the air or smell of fall in the air?
This one's hard, I love them both so much. In the end, I have to go with fall on this one, though. The smell of the leaves and the warm days and cool nights with a fire, those are my favorites.

splashing in puddles or crunching through leaves?
crunching through leaves--very little clean-up! LOL

the smell of lilacs or the smell of roses?
Lilacs always remind me of Grandma Mom and I miss her.

hot dog at a baseball game or hot cocoa at a football game?
I'd say hot dog at a baseball game, if you are gonna make me go to a live sporting event, feed me in the spring/summer, don't make me sit out in the cold on hard metal benches, I don't care how much you like the team...the cocoa won't be enough...

picture or memory?
memory, it's fallible and that's okay

record or cd?
record--I used to love changing the needle...

corded phone or cordless phone?
long, long talks with my friend Mike on the yellow corded phone in the kitchen any day of the week...usually started five minutes after we left each other

eskimo kisses or butterfly kisses?
butterfly kisses

made-up bedtime story or book bedtime story?
made up--starring ME!

fake eyelashes or fake boobs?
eyelashes, give me real boobs!

cowboy hats or cowboy boots?
Boots, it's all about the shoes, baby!

big belt buckle or small belt buckle?
The big belt buckle with those worn leather boots will look great on my floor later.

snail mail or email?
Email every day, snail mail once a week.

painted toenails or painted fingernails?
Pink toenails to peek-a-boo out of my cute shoes...

long slow kisses or full body hugs?
Passionate kisses any day of the week-long, slow, yum.

White Castle's or Krystal's?
Krystal's...it's the yellow mustard

yellow mustard or brown mustard?
yellow, it must be the Chicago kid in me...

fork, spoon, or spork?
Spoon! is a battle cry, so spork...

long hair or short hair?
long, flowy, silky, tangled, sexy hair...

yesterday or tomorrow?
tomorrow, it hasn't happened yet so it's still full of promises...

Once upon a time or happily ever after?
Once upon a time for the same reason as tomorrow, it still has promise and "what if" and everything is still waiting...
And it's not happily ever after for everyone, think of the poor woodsman, it's not happily ever after for him...

Voltron or Power Rangers?
Voltron, Aphrodite Z could so kick the Pink Ranger's ass!

Mom

I miss my mom tonight. I don't know why. Thought I'd share.
Who do you miss tonight?

Canadian Yankees

So, last night, I am trying to catch up on a week of The View and there is BANGING going on so loud in the hallway that I thought the glass on my door would break.

I am about ready to get up and yell at the hooligans, but Mike barges into my room and says, "I need Jon to go out and intimidate this kid..." and I get up to go out there and he says, "Not my mom!"

Well, since Jon shouldn't be walking on his foot and I am going to kill the child for banging on the glass, Mike lost the battle.

I step out and say, "Don't ever knock on my door that way again."

He puffs himself up and says, "I need your tall son to come out to the street for the things that happened on the bus today, I'm going to teach him a lesson."

Inside I was thinking, seriously Mike is 5'5" and is going to beat you down. Why not go home now before the humiliation.

I said, "I don't know how you do it where you live, but we don't do it that way here." I was thinking his family, our family.

He said, "Where are you from, Canada? What are you Yankees?"

Now, I am not sure if this child thinks that Yankees come from Canada or he was just confused because he was now peeing in his pants because Jon came out after me and got in his face and made him get off of our property.

Three of his friends had to pull him off of the porch. They only pulled him to the street where his older sister was waiting in the car for him.

Then Jim arrived. He looks into the car and says, "I'll remember you." At which time I had to head back to the house because it was just so funny, I couldn't stand it. Jim glaring at this kid that is peeing all over the car. All Jim needed to do was V his fingers and go from his eyes to the kids eyes...then it would have made me pee myself!

J and I broke out into a rousing rendition of, "I will remember you...will you remember me..."

Then I called the cops to put a complaint in, I wasn't sure if the kid was humiliated enough to slash tires or break windows, but I didn't want to take the chance. The officer got a call from his chief and he showed up to talk with us, too. They knew who the kids were, "the usual suspects".

Seriously, if your kids were the cops' "usual suspects" wouldn't you look into what the hell it was that you were doing wrong?

The best part of this whole story? We sat on the front porch with the officer and the chief, because it's 70 degrees. It's sunny and springy and flowers are blooming.

Oh, and I will remember you.