April Poems & Pictures

I’m making an effort this month to pen a few more poems. Pictures mostly are my writing prompts for these.

April Already!

Recently I visited a nearby park and walked to the start of the falls, where the little lake emptys out over what I assume is a dam.  It was lovely standing there watching the water and listening to it rushing away down over the rocks.

This is a view of the lake there. It is called Lake George, but is much smaller than the more famous Lake George, NY.

Another view of the lake, this one from just before the bridge over the falls.  You can see in the background the metal boardwalk across the lake and on the right a clubhouse with a lovely patio on the lake.  I plan to picnic there one day soon when my sister in law can join me (she's a teacher and has to wait for Spring break).

I can’t believe how quickly the months are flying by!  Here it is April already, and I could swear just last week it was Thanksgiving!  I know I keep writing about time passing fast, but boy it is true for me.  I guess I just get lost in the days and when I look up I’m turning another page on the calendar.  At least time isn’t hanging heavy on my hands.  This is a good thing. The first day of April is famous for being April Fool’s  Day, a day where people for some mysterious reason play pranks, tricks and jokes on each other; some harmless, some mean depending on who’s involved and what type of person they are.  I’ve seen everything from a single gal announcing she’s engaged on social media (when she’s not even got a boyfriend), to someone leaving the kitchen tap on the sprayer so that when someone turns it on to say, fill the teakettle, they get drenched, to giving someone cookies made with salt instead of sugar.  It’s supposed to be all in good fun.

               I’m not one to prank people, but I do remember one time when I was much younger and very silly that I played one on coworkers.  At the time, I worked in a donut shop baking the donuts.  On the opposite side of the kitchen was the finishing table where the donuts were filled, frosted, or coated before going into the display case for sale.  Under the table were 3 rolling bins, about the size of a bassinette, filled with powdered sugar, granulated sugar, and glaze.  They each held about 25 lbs. of ingredients, and my trick was to bury just under the surface of the sugar sheets of parchment paper so that when my coworkers tried to coat the donuts they would not be able to get enough sugar to do so.  As I remember, we all got a good laugh out of it.  That’s it, my whole April Fool’s Day story.  I never promised a hilarious story here, but I hope it gave you a chuckle.

               I do hope that April will feature some calmer weather than we’ve been having, but even with the extreme cold we had recently there are flowers emerging from their winter sleep and buds appearing on the trees in the warmth of the sun.  It is a good and hopeful sign of things to come.

Fast Week

Where did last week go?  Seems like I really should have had time to write a post, but obviously I didn’t!  Time just seems to keep on going by faster and faster, and I can barely think what all I did last week besides work and keep things going around here.  I know I went to writers group on Wednesday because I did the writing exercise a half hour before I had to be at the library—and I call my daughter “Last Minute Lucy” because she tends to leave homework assignments until the last minute!  I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, as the saying goes.  Hmmm, let me think what else kept me going in circles.  I had some dental work done one day after work, (made less unpleasant by the humorous hygienist and dreamy dentist), I seem to remember a trip or two to the store on the way home from work, and some laundry being washed, dried and folded.  There was lunch out with my daughter squeezed in one day between work and Hillary’s bus.  Oh, and let’s not forget going out for an early dinner with my husband Friday.  Well, and there we are at the weekend already and Saturday went quickly because, well, for one thing every Saturday goes fast, and I began fighting vertigo so took it fairly easy, took a nap, read a book, did a few necessary things around the house, and watched some TV. Today I continued the fight with the vertigo (I seem to be winning!) and enjoyed some time outside in the strengthening April sun hanging up wind chimes and sipping hot cider on the patio with my husband and daughters.  The breeze was kind of cold, but it was just too irresistibly sunny and blue skied to stay indoors all day.  We dreamed aloud of the coming spring and summer’s activities with the sound of the wind chimes for a soundtrack while we munched on some doughnuts.  Homemade macaroni cheese and sautéed cauliflower ended our Sunday afternoon, and now it’s time to get back into the work week mindset!  As the song says, “Time keeps on slippin’ slippin’ slippin’ into the future………”