April Showers Bring May Flowers

April Showers Bring May Flowers

I think everyone has heard this saying at one point in their life. I know I have heard this since the time I was a little girl. April always seemed to be a rainy month but the first of May brought the May pole and May baskets and lots and lots of beautiful flowers! In school when we decroated the calendar board we would always have lots of raindrops and dark clouds and little boys and girls jumping in water puddles holding a umbrella.



This month of April has been very rainy in Iowa. In fact I think in the past two weeks we have only seen a couple days of sunny weather! Iowa has been very lucky though with the storms that have recently hit the U.S. As I am typing this Arkansas is being hit with tornadoes. Just last week there were 289 tornadoes in 3 days in 15 states! Holy Moly! What is up with so many storms?!?!

I am one of the many people that love to watch and listen to the rain and thunder. In fact a thunderstorm helps me sleep at night. These storms that are happening in the States is something that I have never seen before. Now dont get me wrong, I am sure we have had many outbreaks in storms like this before but I never cared to pay attention before. The past 5 years or so I have been watching the weather more and mother nature. I remember almost 20 years ago a horrible flood in the state of Iowa but I dont remember the storms. With age I have become more aware of what mother nature can do.

Since the earthquake in Japan last month I have been watching the weather and I get allerts on earthquakes that are over a 6.0. What do I make of all this? Mother Nature is pissed and she needs to let off some steam. Who could blame her? Do I think this is the end of the world? LOL No

I will be watching and recording the weather this year and then comparing what happened this year to the years to come. I hope that the major storms that have been happening the past couple weeks start to die down as we get closer to summer. In the meantime this rain that Iowa we are getting is very much welcomed to my flowers and garden and also my sleep! I have been sleeping much better since most nights I got to bed with the sound of rain on my window.

April showers bring May flowers?? This year the saying is true!

April 23, 2011

For the first time ever of writing blogs, and yes I have had other blogs then this one, I am starting to write the blog without a title. Why because I have no idea what to title this! lol

I have been reading the book "The Way of the Green Witch" but Arin Murphy-Hiscock. This is not a book review though since I have only read about 1/4 of the book. So far what I have read has hit home with me. For many years now I have been changing my path more and more and this book is making me review my path again. There are so many things about a green witch that ring true with me but that is for another blog.

In one section of the book it talks about the green witch's tools and how her journal is one of her tools. Now a journal is not a Book of Shadows even though they are very much alike. The green witch's journal will have recipes, how the weather was that day, what kind of gardening they did that day, observations of growing or the death of plants and animals and so much more. The journal is not meant to be perfect, its every day life.

I have started several journals over the years never to complete a single one. I have always thought what I wrote was stupid or nothing I said had any meaning. I look back now and wish I had wrote down what I had thought and what was happening in the world and around me, new things I had tried that was a sucess and what failed.

Since reading this in the book I have decided to start writing again in a journal but this time it is useful information that I can recall many years from now and look at what happened on a certain date and how my garden was doing and so many more things. I have bought a journal on Amazon the other day that I am excited to get. In the meantime I have already started to fill a journal out that I will then transfer what I have wrote into the new journal.

What I am writing is what I know, not things that I dream about or hope will come true like I used to write about as a little girl. This journal has weather conditions, the price of gas, earthquakes around the world, the outbreak of tornadoes right now and where they are, local events around me, what is growing and what is not. I even wrote a quote down of what I found in an old cookbook that I just bought on ebay, in fact it was a collection of cookbooks put on a disk that I can open up anytime I am on the computer! That is another blog I should write about. lol

I am excited about this journal, a journal I know I will keep up with. This is something that I want to keep so I can compare notes with next year at the begining of planting season.

So here I am at the end of the blog and still have no idea what to title this. Guess a simple date will have to do, not all blogs have to have a title right? Many blessings to you all!!

Has it really been that long???

Like the title of this blog says, "Has it really been that long" since I posted a blog? What is wrong with me? I have so much to say, why havent I posted it? This weekend might just change all that.

I have only been up about an hour now and the only thing I have really done is catch up with everyone on twitter. That's a great place to be since the twoven and all my other wonderful friends are there! My plans for the rest of the day include reading blogs, watching vlogs, writing blogs and posting vlogs on YT! Sounds like a great day to me!!! Oh and throw in some cooking and cleaning in that mix too.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Saturday!

Spring Flowers

Spring Flowers - free slideshow

Yesterday I woke up late as it was Saturday, one of the few days I can sleep in. It was a beautiful day so I opened my front door to get some fresh air. It was a bit cloudy but the temperature was already in the 60s! I am really loving this weather! Anyhow I was looking around the yard and then I spotted the white and purple flowers that were in my yard, Crocus!!!!! I was so excited I ran into the house and got my camera. I posted a video of them on my YT channel and the photo I have posted here! My snowdrops opened a couple weeks ago but they are very tiny and hard to see unless you look for them. Crocus's are the flower that most people think of as when they think of the first flowers of spring. I'm so excited! As I am typing this on Sunday afternoon it is already 81 degrees! That is unheard of the first couple days of April! I love it! Welcome Spring!!!!