Spring is really coming

Spring really seems to be here where we live. Allergies are up, of course. Just a bit worse than winter allergies now, we do expect them to ramp up more and more over the next month. At any rate, though there are pollens about, I have opened some windows here and there in the house. The fresh air is lovely, it’s not too cold. I’ve turned the heat pump off as well (didn’t want it to run at all, which it only would do at night, depending on what temperature it was set at, but don’t need that when it’s sunny and spring-like all day where our house is.

Our Weeping Willow is putting out it’s greenery. It’s obvious looking out the window to the 80 or so feet to where the tree is, green bumps up and down the long strands that make up a Weeping Willows branches, etc.

Looking at it up close, the Weeping Willow had green coming out a good 1/2″ everywhere. It’s just February 19 today, the 15 day outlook isn’t set in stone, but there COULD be some nights with lows around or below freezing, which depends on many things as to if it’ll be troublesome for plants.

Other things which are growing, our ornamental cherry tree seems to be readying the blossoms that will come within a month or so. Some other things we have, self-planted oak trees in our front area need to be moved, but are already putting out some leaves. A maple tree we have is putting out new growth too, but not leaves. All the maple trees are thickening their buds that will be their “flowers”.

Birds are going crazy eating all the berries created from last years blossoms on the ornamental cherry tree. They’ve pretty much clean off the top half, and are now working on the bottom half. (It hardly had any activity during the whole winter until this week.)

I am worried about the coming heat though. Our A/C has been more and more unreliable over the last 10 years, needs replaced but more than that, overhaul of what we need is necessary. I hold out no hope that the compressor will turn on the first time we need it. It takes money to have it checked out and we know it’s pretty much not worth “fixing” even if it could be managed to get more life out of it. It’s expensive to run like that, when it DOES what it is supposed to, so it’s either cook or be warm, rarely cool enough, but sometimes it does better (depending on sun or clouds, drier weather, etc.) –it’s troublesome because I do terrible physically with too much heat, over 70 degrees F. higher humidity kills any energy I have, I get really ill, and I’d give $1,000 for a minute of cool dry air around me, so it’s worth it to pay that much to do something about it that is a lasting change, and add more $ to it to make it even better. But alas, everything costs, and that is the one thing that is never considered, actually DOING something about it. It’s the last thing that needs done even though I NEED it from April 1 to October 15 at the LEAST usually.

So it’s nice that Spring is here, but it’s too soon. Summer is TOO close, A/C a problem. The birds are happy though. They get to build their nests, lay their eggs, raise their young again. That’s great. I hope I can stay cool enough. That’s all.