Fun in the Snow...and Sun

Well, it is May 20 and we have officially been away from Schwenksville for 1 year. Wow! A blink of an eye. Every time I think of the fact that a whole year has gone by my stomach gives a lurch. What a speck of time and how much has happened!

May and snow! It is truly hard to get used to that at the end of April we were still snow covered. We madde the mistake of going for a walk near the Chena River the last week of April during "mud season"  First of all, most of the path was totally covered with snow, and the bridge that we had to cross over the river was covered in rushing water.  Well, Fred hates water, and i knew that he would probably get swept away, so I went over the bridge first to check out the depth (over the top of my boots) and then David scooped old Fred into his arms and started across the bridge.  He stumbled and went down...but ture to form, hung onto Fred and they both made it safely across.  Now we were all wet and had about a 30 minute walk backt o the car in snow with soaking wet boots.  What an April outing.

As soon as the temperature gets a little warm in the afternoons..anything above 60, shorts, sleeveless tops, flip flops pop out.  Not on us, but on everyone else. 

We still had patches of snow on Mother's Day and as we go to work every day there is still a section of the woods that has deep snow.  Go figure.

The sun now comes up at 4 am and goes down at 11;30 and in between there is no dark because dawn and dusk are so long.  Fred and i went out last night and got back about 11:15 pm Here he is in an unadultered photo at 11:15 pm.  Last night we finally put towels on one of the bedroom windows because we are having trouble sleeping.  And with the warmth and light come the mosquitoes...first the big dopey ones, and then the small buzyy ones.  Those are the ones I dread.