There’s a warm rain outside now, cleaning up all the snow.  I took my last ski through the woods today, smooshing off soft slabs of snow edging little rivers.  Now I’m boiling maple sap – 40 gallons to make a gallon of syrup – and making sap soda and vinegar.   And cleaning every cabinet and nook.  I’m abashed by the stacks of plastic bags I have – and no idea what to do with them.  I envision the plastic island in the Pacific ocean – this is my contribution.  I put them near the recycle pile, hopeful, wondering what is their use?

April – and still a fire going inside the parlor, and out in the sugar house.  Rain, fall on.  Spring arrives!