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March 31, 2005
Spring
Temperatures actually went into the 60's this week and people in northern climes began to undertake the rites of spring - cleaning the half-ton of rock salt off the bottom of the car, shaking the propane container under the grill to see if there's anything left, cleaning the rust off the clubs and driving slowly by golf courses to see if the flags are in the greens, putting down crabgrass preventer in the forlorn hope that it might actually work THIS year, assessing which trees, shrubs and plants survived the winter, and the worst one of all, checking to see if any of your summer clothes from last year still fit.
When I was a manager, I always faced spring with mixed feelings. It was nice to be outside again, but I knew that I was now looking at a very intense maintenance season, where the boards' would expect a year's worth of work to be packed into six months. You want to spend some time out on your deck or on the golf course, but the work load has suddenly doubled. And it wasn't just the maintenance work. Every homeowner now decides to start building that deck or fence, or planting that tree out in the yard and so, the violation process begins again. Ah, spring!
Those of you who were born, raised and still live in year-round warm climates can never really appreciate what that first breath of warm air means. You have to have survived three-four months of sunless, cold, dreary days, punctuated by the hope that your aging, out-of-shape body doesn't turn you into another "dropped dead from snow-shoveling" statistic. Spring says you made it, you've survived and life is good again.
So, if you call or write in the next few days and don't hear back from me, please understand that I'm probably outside somewhere, with my face to the sun, watching the new buds on the flowers and trees, seeing the grass actually turn green OR I'm at the mall buying the next size up. Happy Spring!
Posted by joewest at March 31, 2005 3:45 PM