That is, the Winter that is reluctant to quit. It is the Spring Equinox tomorrow. My weather calendar tells me it was 79F in 2012. Hmmmmmm............ it's about 30F here right now.
We got another 8 to 10 inches of snow yesterday. I didn't go out to the chicken coop yesterday. I knew they had enough food and water to last till today. It was near blizzard conditions, but what was most intimidating was my path. It was bad before the snow. It is a trodden snow path that is now about ten to twelve inches off the ground. It was higher but the recent warm weather shrunk it a few inches. The problem is, as the weather warms the sides become crumbly and a foot has the tendency to slide off further destroying the edge. The path becomes narrower, some places only the width of a footprint. Then, of course, it is full of deep holes where my foot went through. I hope you can picture that.
In most years, as the weather warms, I can just switch off the path and blaze a new path through the old untrodden snow. Everything generally works out, as the old path becomes too difficult to traverse, the snow, in general, becomes shallow enough to walk through. Not this year, although it shrunk several inches it was still up to my knees and too heavy to pull a toboggan through.
In the last couple weeks, I slid off the path three or four times, lost my balance and landed in the snow. As long as I can pull myself up it is not such bad event. It is not so much fun if I have to crawl to a tree or a fence to pull myself up. The last week I have been carrying a staff, it helps me keep my balance when my foot goes into a hole and I can use it to lift myself if I go down.
This Morning with the path covered by new snow, we had to come up with a new plan. I had to pull the toboggan to carry the water jug and a pail of feed. From experience, I knew it would be very difficult to pull the toboggan through this much fresh snow. Jamie remembered a walker we had purchased when I had knee surgery about 13 years ago. Luckily we still had it in the basement and it didn't end up in the thrift store like other unused items. She suggested that she walk behind me with the walker so if I went down I would have something besides the staff to pick myself up with. It was a great solution. It gave me the confidence that I needed to make a successful trip. It took the better part of an hour to feed and water the chickens and collect the eggs, a round trip of only 200 yards.
You know, the folks on Laughing Water Farm are eager for Spring weather.
And Spring will come and it will come with a great flourish. As will the New World which is right beyond the horizon ready to emerge. The Old World is crumbling fast. The love emanating from humanity is pushing back the veil of darkness. We are beginning to see. We don't have long to wait.
This is a time when we all need to contribute as much light as possible to push back the dark. Don't give in to bleak thoughts. Turn your TV off except for entertainment you know contains no negativity. That is sometimes hard to discern. Propaganda can be very subtle and there are entities that are constantly trying to influence us for political and economic reasons. We need to do everything we can to keep our minds in a loving place. Bless yourself and bless the world. Picture all the people on the planet being well fed, clothed, housed and most of all happy. Know that every time you smile at someone, every time you glow with happiness you are blessing some one on the other side of the world. Now be aware of it. Consciously bless the whole world. The dark needs to be pushed back just a little further for the light to emerge for all to see.
We will bring joy, love and peace to all.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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