Spring is coming!

I love Spring.  I love when things begin to get leaves and green up.  I'm not much into dead and barren looking, and in Texas we rarely even have colors in the Fall or snow in the Winter to make it pretty.  Just dead and barren looking.  Of course this last year with the drought and heat, most of the year from July on was pretty dead and barren looking.  Except for areas that watered like crazy anyway.  My water bill rivaled my electricity bill in August and September.

Because of the heat and drought last year I've become slightly less of a sun person, wanting sun all the time.  Granted I'm still happier when it's bright and sunny outside, but lately I'm not at all unhappy when it rains.  In fact it's been gloomy and overcast the last several days, but sadly, it's not dumping rain like I want it to.  The forcast has been calling for rain all day today and yesterday, but there's only been some scattered misty rain yesterday and nothing yet today.  Come on!  Rain already!  I think a lot of the rain by-passed us and dropped east of us.

Anyway, back to the Spring thing.  I love it when things turn green.  The Bradford pears have bloomed and are leafing.  The redbud trees are blooming, and I expect the wildflowers will be coming out pretty soon.  My little peach trees are putting on leaves as you can see from the picture above.  I found another peach tree seedling coming up when I mowed the lawn and transplanted it into a pot.  It's the same size as one of the two I transplanted last year.  In the picture below, the new seedling is in the green pot.  I'm not sure why the little from last year didn't really grow.  Maybe it will decide to grow this year.

Yes, I've mowed my yard this year already.  I mowed it last Sunday when I got back from my business trip.  I'm not really ready to call it a 'lawn' because the grass is just beginning to think about growing.  The weeds, on the other hand, are growing like gangbusters, so I mowed and weed-whacked last weekend.  My roses never really went dormant this year since the winter was so mild, but I need to get out and trim them back.  They're putting on new growth, but some of the old growth looks pretty ragged.

Tomorrow I begin house hunting for real.  I'm meeting my realtor and we're going to go look at three houses.  This first time out is really just for my realtor and I to meet and for both of us to get a better idea of what I'm looking for.  There's so much to decide: older vs newer home, 2 story vs 1 story, split floor plan?, master bedroom upstairs or down?, open floor plan?, zero lot line?  home owners association?, etc, etc, etc.   We've been emailing back and forth and she's been sending me listings, but this will be our first meeting.  Considering how much I like my little house and enjoy puttering around it, it's amazing that I'm looking for another house.  Basically I'm looking for something with a little more friendly commute to work, either closer or nearer the light rail.  Plus I want something a little larger than my current house.  Yes, two cats and I have outgrown this house.  Which is a nice way of saying I'm collecting too much junk.  If I do find another house though, I'm going to have to have to decide whether to sell this one or rent it.  We'll see.  

 So that's it for today.  Nothing much to say, just thought I'd touch base and mention that I'm house hunting.  I'm sure I'll post blogs about the search as I go along.