And how do we know it's Spring?

[mapsedge]

And how do we know it's Spring?

It's not the storms that blast through once a week and drop rain, hail, microbursts, straight-line winds, and our neighbors' (and sometimes our) trees into the streets.

It's not the flowers blooming their petaled heads above the old silvered mulch of last Autumn's leaves.

It's not the robins, red-breasted and fatly pregnant pulling worms from the freshly tilled soil where there vegetables will be in a few months.

No. It's not any of that.

We know it's Spring because I cut two very large holes in the front of my house and installed the last of the Pella windows. *

So now: the family room, dining room, living room, and all three bedrooms have energy efficient, tilt-in for cleaning, aluminum-clad wooden windows.  Of course, I've fucked up the drywall in yet another room, but drywall I can do while standing on solid ground.  I don't have to stand on a quivering ladder twenty feet in the air to do it. 

And there is the added benefit that the space taken up by the three windows - a considerable amount - is now available again to be filled with stuff I don't actually need and should probably have thrown away years ago.

* There are two windows left to do: the back bathroom, and the window at the top of the basement stairs; but they can wait.  All the main ones are done.

Comments

Totally off topic

[motherpockets.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was at JRF 2 weeks ago and was talking with one of the soup kitchen folks about the wonderfulness of his boots, and he said you made them! Do you still do that at all????

Re: Totally off topic

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

From time to time. Drop me an email, won't you? william at mapsedgemedia dawt calm.