75 degrees and Sunny - but wait, it's March?

The last few days (weeks/months) have been unseasonally warm. The springs birds are back, flower are blooming, trees are budding and the bees are out in full force looking for food. But it's still the middle of March. Isn't supposed to be cold still? But then again this entire winter season has been extremely mild. Upon moving to Wisconsin everyone warned us of the sever winters...I think we got a maximum of 11 inches of snow and just a handful of weeks were it was cold enough to freeze the ground. Sure, it's been great not having to deal with the snow and cold, but I kind of feel like we have completely missed a season. I guess we'll see what's to come.

Acoustic Open Stage at Linnemans

So Jeremy has been playing blue grass with a group guys for three months now. They'll meet up at our friend Ivan's house (who is from Waterford, PA, plays banjo and has two of the coolest people for parents)on Thursday nights. Generally I don't go watch them play since they jam until about midnight, but on occasion I'll watch them and hangout with Ivan's girl friend Kate (all around great person: swim coach, baker, web designer.)

Anyway, last Thurday I did go watch them play. I did't have to work the next morning so I could stay out as late as I wanted. They had a great little practice and they even recorded a few of their songs just to see how it sounded. Next thing I know, they are talking about playing on Wednesday rather than on Thursday because there is an open mic night at a bar called Linnemans which wasn't too far away. And practice continued.

The next morning Jeremy asked me, "did we agree to play at an open mic night last night? Because I'm not sure if we are ready for that". Well, ready or not, they did play on Wednesday. Enjoy.

Four Years.

February - I'm usually sick of snow by this point, however today is the first real snowfall we have had this winter season, which is odd - we should have has a bunch more by now. Jeremy even took his snow tires off his bike - looks like he will be putting them back on.

It started snowing last night, so it kept the tradition of snowing on our wedding anniversary -that's what we get for getting married in February. Wow, it's been four years since we got married. Four years since we worked/lived at Camp Wilson in Ohio, and soon to be four years since we got on a plane headed for Policka, Czech Republic. People aren't kidding when they say time flies.

This winter season along has been sprinting past us - due to Jeremy being swamped in work and grad school readings and paper and me working full-time and attempting to keep up with cleaning our apartment building and the mountain of dishes what constantly plagues our sink - I'm pretty sure they are reprodu

cing in here, because after washing them everyday the mountain remains. It's February 24, I've already had two of the six weekend workshops at Growing Power, Jeremy has already read about 2, 000 pages for his classes -another 4, 000 to go -and we are already talking about our summer plans.

And it's snowing (smile)

Lake Michigan at sunset

It's Winter Time.

N 34th and Lisbon

Find a penny pick it up.

So over the weekend I was little bored and for some reason thought it would be fun to see how old of a penny I could find in our house. 1962 was the winner! Wow, a penny that has been in pockets, in cash drawers, and on the ground for 50 years, cool!

Then I thought, hmm, I wonder if we have pennies from every year since 1962. Turns out we don't but we are pretty close.

I was telling our friend Kyle about my little game and asked if he had any pennies laying around. Out came his change cup and away I went. 1960! Awesome, the oldest penny challenge was on it's way. There were only a few pennies left, mostly shiny but there was one that was really beat up. 1910! I couldn't believe it -both Jeremy and Kyle verified it for me - yup, 1910. I think we have our winner, but now I need to find pennies for all the years in between (smile).