Spring Is Just Around The Corner

We have had an extra cold Winter this year in the "Deep South." It has been below zero with the wind chill factor and several days in the single did gets. Some of our evergreen plants look like they won't recover in the Spring because the leaves have turned brown for the extreme cold.

Then in late February we got a teaser for a few days, as it warmed up into the sixties just to go back down into the high twenties.

March finally came and yes we have had cold weather in March but that only happens about every ten years or so, so we weren't wanting or expecting anymore harsh weather. We must have missed the weather report and on a Sunday morning I called to see what the temperature was and it was 61 degrees, so I dressed for Sunday Service accordingly. After our Sunday meeting when everyone left I noticed that it was a lot colder than 61 degrees. When I called Time and Temperature, it had already dropped thirty degrees and is said that we would have sleet and snow for the night.

When we woke up the next day, they had gotten it right and it was very cold and icy. This lasted for several days and finally it warmed up on Saturday to 71 degrees. Sunday was about the same and we told Chloe we would go for a bike ride.

So we took Chloe behind the house and across the lake to a parking lot where she could ride to her hearts content. She selected a circle and started her ride.

 

And as she rode her bike she widened her circle.

 It was starting to get a little windy and she was glad that Grandmother had made her wear a sweater just in case she got cold, but this didn't stop her riding.

 

She has gotten pretty good at riding and I think I can raise up her training wheels so she will learn to ride it before long without them.

The sun was getting in her face and she was glad to have brought her sunglasses as well.

She finally stopped just enough for a short break before heading out again.

She informed me that when you are going up a hill you have to stand up and pedal to get more power to get up the hill. So after showing me this she rode the entire circle standing up to show me she could do it.

When we got home from the bike ride she decided that she wanted to ride in her little red car before going into the house. She rode out one time and pulled back into the garage.

Tears were streaming down her pretty little face as she said, "Poppy, my little red car is too small, I can't ride it like I used to why is this." I just let her know that over the Winter that she had grown taller and that, yes it was getting to small for her. She let me know that we couldn't get rid of it, when Grandmother spoke up and said we will get you another little car. The last thing she wanted to know was if it would be pink.