Spring Cleaning
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 09:49AM The first day of spring. I looked out the window. Rain.
"Sun won't show it's face much today, I'm thinking."
I stood with my elbows on the kitchen counter and gazed out the window this morning, contemplating my change of plans. What to do?
As the quotation above suggests, (spoken by Tom Bombadil) my thoughts turned to a passage in the Fellowship of the Ring--Goldberry's Washing Day.
"This is Goldberry's washing day," he said, "and her autumn cleaning. Too wet for hobbit-folk--let them rest while they are able! It's a good day for long tales, for questions and answers. . ."
I have a choice before me. Be a responsible wife and mother and clean house, (which I do every Wednesday) or pretend I am a hobbit and spend the day reading tales and blogging answers to questions I have receieved in my inbox.
What to do. . .what to do.
I will clean my house. But I will dream of working in the yard and reading tales and I will compose posts in my mind.
What do you do on a rainy first day of spring?
Reader Comments (4)
Simply reading on a cloudy day is always hard to resist for me!!
It's cloudy/rainy here, too. But because we're on spring break this week I think we'll do some baking, some sewing, and maybe watch a movie together (a chick flick!).
And, I'll be dreaming of all the flowers I want to plant soon! I want LOTS of color in the yard this year!
It's still not terribly spring-ish here, but I'll be cleaning my house while the baby naps this afternoon.... my kids got chocolate bees in their lunchboxes today, in honour of the first day of spring.
Hi Connie,
I hope to add several new planting areas in my yard this year. I want lots of color, too!
Hi Beck,
You are one fun mom. I used to do stuff like that when my boys were younger. When they got about 6th grade they started to roll their eyes a bit, but once they got to high school they thought it was cool again.
What to do on a rainy spring day? Read blogs, of course!!