Our Last Monday in February Felt Like Spring!

Both Louis Dean and I got a good night's sleep and I woke up to the smell of coffee, bacon and hot cakes! Can it get any better than that?? I don't think so.

I mean I was in a DEEP sleep but that aroma could not be resisted.

It was like old times with Louis Dean bringing my my first cup of coffee in bed.

I loved it!

He had already eaten but as soon as I ventured out of the bedroom, he was flipping some more pancakes and served them hot, buttered, and with a healthy amount of maple syrup...... along with that delicious bacon and another cup of creamed cinnamon flavored coffee.

He's BAAAACCCKKKK!

Not all the way but close enough for me to relax again!

Sunday was sunny and beautiful and today was much the same.

I decided to go out to the gazebo and see what I could do.

I opened up all the rain curtains for the very first time this year!

Leaves had piled up in there and it needed a good cleaning.

I washed all the tablecloths and covers and used the blower to clean up the floor.

Look who I found on a book! I moved him to the arm of one of the rocking chairs and he stayed there for over an hour before I noticed he was gone.

He must have been a brand new grasshopper!

I went in to heat up our late lunch - by this time it was around 3:00 - and Louis Dean called to me from the garden area and said, "Linda! Come and see! I have something to show you!"

Green onions!!!

We have been meaning to get out there and pull up all the old tomato vines and pepper plants and get the ground ready for the spring planting.

It was nice to see something green growing in the middle of all the dead stuff!

I had to pull one of the onions to eat with my lunch.....

and yes, we are still eating that chicken noodle soup.

I may put the rest of it in the freezer tomorrow. 

Enough is enough and it will be so good to pop out and eat at a later day.

I bought a couple of cantaloupe last week and cut one up today and it was sweet as sugar!!

They are from Mexico and really good. I tried a watermelon last month and it was too soon.

Stephanie sent over some last week and it was good.

Sprinkled with salt and pepper - cantaloupe is one of my favorite foods in all the world.

Louis Dean is feeling better and better each and every day.

Since we were out there in the gazebo together, I decided to take all the debris down from the top.

Louis Dean bought a brand new sturdy ladder and it was easy peasy to get down all the lights.

Now it looks clean.

Good thing I did it, too! 

Birds were beginning to build a nest up there amongst all the pine cones!

It looked like the perfect place to them!

Louis Dean was tired so he went off to bed to take what turned into a 3 hour nap.....

and I put my feet up and read for an hour or so.

This is Tiffany Baker's first novel and I can hardly put it down!

I will finish it tonight.

You can read a 'Small-Town Figure' review here.

I did not know she wrote Mercy Snow......that's another book on my stack to read.

Between reading sessions, I continued to work in the area around the gazebo, taking down the winter garlands and replacing them with the pine cone one Summer bought for me over 10 years ago.

It was dark by the time I finished out there!

The lights are still on in the gazebo because I intend to go back and sit with a glass of wine while I finish that book.

Then I may need to pull the curtains back together as I noticed rain is back in the forecast for tonight and the next two days.