Barbara J. Hamby

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Another Sunny Saturday

This is the second lovely spring day in April. The first was two weeks ago today and we had begun to think that would be our whole spring this year because it had been cold and/or rainy ever since, until today. Now I hope we can look forward to improving weather from now on into summer. We’ll see.

The rain has really beaten up my early flowers. Maybe tomorrow I can get out and do some trimming and make the deck and the front porch area look better. When the weather settles into a warm pattern, we have benches to sand and paint on the deck. I’m not looking forward to that task, but they’ll look great when it’s done.

Spring and fall are the busy times for writing contests. I have a stack of guidelines on my desk for poetry and other writing contests and a stack of possible entries. I mailed one entry on Friday and will try to send a couple more by their April 30th deadlines. In recent years I haven’t entered many contests or submitted material for publications, but I feel motivated to do some of that this year.