Spring time in my life

I have been pressing buttons on this blog-a-ma-jig...can you tell?
HA!  let me see what did I do...
I  have been working in my yard for as long as my strength lasts (which is not nearly as long as I would like but I will take what ever I can get.  I love how I come inside exhausted from bending over and pulling weeds.  Although I can't use my left arm for much, my right one is a worthy adversary for the weeds that grew during last years sabbatical.  I have raked and raked and get a nice little pile of weeds ready for the big black bag and from out of nowhere a little blonde 2 1/2  year old comes plowing through them!  It seems to be Logan's calling in life to jump in the middle of my neat piles of dry leaves.  Julianna found a really old hammer buried in the dirt and she is hammering a tree stump :)
Some men from the electric company came by to trim our trees that may or may not be in their lines.  They asked us if we needed any other trees trimmed and Mark asked them to cut down an old tree that had been struck by lightning once and has  never been the same...he said sure we can do that!  Then Mark asked if they could cut down the pesky cottonwood that produces 'bushels' of cotton in the late spring and early summer as well as 'millions' of aphids that drop aphid juice all over the yard and anything or anyone that is under it.  'Yes, that is no problem" said the friendly tree trimmer.  Mark asked that thy leave the willow tree next to the cottonwood because it is healthy and quite lovely.   Well.........I went out to check on the work they had done and the old lightning struck tree was gone...nice.   BUT the willow tree that was just coming into it's own after years of struggling was gone...poof!  AND....the cottonwood tree is standing tall and proud and singing praises to the Lord for sparing it again!  GRRRRR.  Surely there is something that I can spray on it so that it does not produce cotton!  Help!
 No biggie.  I am alive and I am able to work in my yard and I feel good.  My grand children will be able to once again run and play in my yard as I dig in the dirt.  I now have to wear a hat and wear this arm thingy, plus wear gloves always so that I don't get a scratch or cut and risk infection on that lymphless arm.   Actually I only had 13 taken out and I think we have alot more than that but I guess it is still not good to get an infection.
Mark and I spent a few days in Lewistown with Dana and Summer and Autumn and Dominic a few weeks ago.  It was very enjoyable to watch how Dommie LOVED to be with his Papa.  No one else existed when Mark would walk in.  Summer, Autumn and I worked outside while they watched tv.  I do love that they are only a short drive away from us.  
My Lupe and Bella love when I go outside as well.  It must seem to them like I abandoned them last year.  My faithful little mutts.
Life is good.
I am grateful and have much work to do.  But first I think I will rest, all of a sudden I am tired.
Logan and Jonah both have croup and since Whit and Ryan were going to take them to the circus, Mark and I are taking Julianna to it tonight.  She is spending the day and the night, maybe the weekend with us because the docs said to keep the sick ones away from the healthy ones. She and her PaPa are napping right now.  
Yes, life is truly good.