Is it Spring?

 The weather sure is interesting this year.  There was a robin up here last night!  I heard him having a fit out in the dairy pasture.  I do believe that is the earliest we've ever had a robin up here.  They are showing up all over the Flathead Valley, too.  The mild weather has everyone confused.  I just noticed some of my Hellebores are starting to come up.  

Our forest service road has more soft spots in it this year than usual.  It's getting a bit difficult to navigate it, between the giant potholes, washouts and now all the boggy soft spots.  It really needs to be graded this year!  There is more traffic on this dead-end road than on probably all the other through roads combined. I am going to have to go down to the forest service office and once again complain.  They always tell me there is no money for grading a dead-end road.  I think they should just pave it and be done with it. When it does get graded, the washboards reappear within a month from just about everyone driving too fast up and down it.  I don't understand why people can't figure out that gravel/dirt and speed don't mix.  One little skip of a tire on a rock creates a little divot, then as everyone else goes over that, it gets bigger and bigger. Pretty soon, big stretches of the road are just a big washboard.  Especially around corners and in areas where it's slow going, people step on the gas when it gets smooth, and wa-la a washboard is formed.  Our Dodge truck is pretty rough riding anyway, and going over washboards just about breaks my back, even going very slow.  Then there are the deep potholes that are unavoidable.  I try not to leave this place more than once a week. :-) 

I am making my first top out of some of my handwoven cotton cloth. It even has sleeves!  I haven't sewn anything clothing since home-ec class way back in jr high.  That was a long time ago.  I just need to figure out the neckline and then it will be done.  Exciting times! :-) 

I hope everyone is doing okay in these times.  Observe, don't absorb.  Thanks for reading this.  One of these days I'll get the photo transfer thing down and post some pictures. One of these days...