Weather drunk

Spring weather makes me kind of giddy under normal circumstances, but when it arrives six or eight weeks ahead of schedule, it's - well, I don't know what the word is. Everyone I encountered this weekend seemed deliriously happy. Like we'd all won the lottery. Like we were present for a miraculous event. Everything was just good. Except the sale I went to Saturday - another one of those on-my-way-to-get-groceries sales, except I was #5 or #7 or something but nobody really seemed to care who went in when because we all were just so happy. Weather drunk. We're all just weather drunk.

Anyway, the sale wasn't any good, but nobody cared about that, either, because we were all just going to go home and soak up the sun except for the part where we were watching basketball. I bought an old cookbook, a folding yardstick, a yellow napkin holder and a food mill. There are clamps in the photo because the yellow napkin holder was in the garage holding hardware, and the clamps were in it, and my husband loves clamps. I don't know why.

Me: What would you like for Christmas?
My husband: I could always use more clamps.

Me: What would you like for your birthday?
My husband: I could always use more clamps.

Me: What would you like for Father's Day? Don't say clamps because I got you clamps for your birthday and Christmas.
My husband: I know, but I could always use more.

Had I been thinking and not dizzy from the sunlight, I'd have tucked these away for Father's Day, but instead, I left them out on the counter with a note for him. Now he's deliriously happy, too, because the weather is so great and he's got a new set of clamps and there is still Father's Day to look forward to.

I have to confess that even though the cookbook was in good shape and from 1933 and all, I really just liked the cover.

Aside from the weather, there were other good things happening this weekend.

My team is in the Sweet Sixteen.

I got all kinds of yard work done.

My dad says you should plant peas on St. Patrick's Day, so I did. The eating kind and the kind that go in a vase.

I had a good week on Etsy and something that I got at an auction except I don't remember which one and was just in the bottom of a dollar box that I wanted for some other reason but I don't remember what sold for $80-something on eBay. (Antique hair combs. We should all be looking for antique hair combs.)

Good weather makes me write run-on sentences with misplaced clauses. (Not sure that's a good thing, just an observation.)

My daughter and I had strawberry milkshakes for lunch today. Not the kind that come from McDonalds but the real ones you make yourself with real strawberries in a blender.

The strawberries are coming up in the garden. That's not what we used for the milkshakes, though. The ones in the garden are just poking up and saying hello at this point.

I rearranged the living room furniture.

Because I rearranged the living room furniture, I wanted to swap one rug for another one upstairs, and because I was swapping rugs I needed to vacuum and the vacuum cleaner wasn't working, and I took it all apart and with nothing more than my wits and a screwdriver, I fixed it.

It's possible that sunlight in March gives me superhuman powers.

A week from tonight at this time I will be watching the season premiere of "Mad Men."

I spent some quality time with my favorite garden catalog and Post-It notes.

The weather is going to be even better on Wednesday. It's going to be kind of perfect, from what I understand.

I am not accustomed to feeling like this. Especially in March. 

Comments

[Lisa W.]

I share your weather joy living here in upstate N.Y.. What a day ! I do wonder if it will last ... you know how capricious the month of March can be.

[Ann]

Congrats on your ebay and etsy sales. Do you still have your booth?

[Maria (Magia Mia)]

I'm gettin' the spins from your drunken whirlwind.....

Awesome about the $80 auction. Thanks for the tip!

My mother has that exact cookbook, but its condition is more akin to the Velveteen Rabbit. :)

[Musings from Kim K.]

Sounds like a fabulous weekend. We are definitely feeling spoiled with this amazing weather. Who wears shorts in March in MI? Crazy I tell ya.

[Tina]

Congratulations! We've hardly had any winter weather this year. It will be a very long summer.

[Renee]

Tiled floor, check. Ordered new rug (because I failed on cleaning other one), check. Spring clean inside, check. Spring clean garden, check. Planted planters with pansies, check. Jayhawks in Sweet Sixteen, barely...Yep...Superhuman. By the way, who doesn't need more clamps. They are very useful. Good man....smiles...Renee

[Tina]

Can you show us what an $80 comb looks like?

[Poppy K]

My handy husband also seems to have an insatiable need/want for clamps. I guess you can never have enough.

[nanette]

Oh my gosh. You are almost making me tired. It snowed here and we didn't get that weather. So that is prob why I'm tired. That and I went to bed too late. Love the clamp story. My husb. will appreciate that.

[Patty]

yes, yes, yes......yes to the weather, yes to the need to garden and YES to the love of post it notes which adorned your catalog! No to the clamps though :) Yippppeee to your fab Ebay sale!!! WTG

[Kathy]

Put some of that happy on eBay and us PNWers will be jumping all over it. We had snow and hail and rain yesterday - so rude in March!

[laurie magpie ethel]

I think the glorious weather of march that has made you weather drunk ramble on describing a wonderful weekend! This post was like having a conversation with you...

p.s. the clamps, the clamps..too funny!

[Into Vintage]

I'm trying to focus on the fact that I have that exact same cookbook and held it in my just yesterday and I also have that exact same napkin holder but in green.

Instead I keep reminding myself I woke up to 2" of snow here this morning. In March. I agree with Kathy - SO rude!

[Into Vintage]

I don't want to leave you hanging ... I held it in my hand!!

[Melissa's Antiques]

I took Monday off work to do yard work. I wouldn't normally do it, but I think I was "weather drunk" and still am...

[Joy]

Let's go Orange! :) Sounds like strawberry picking may be early this year! AS long as we don't get a late frost.

[Mitzi Curi]

This weather has been so unusual! I can get a head start on all of my projects that I save for summer. I'm looking forward to another season of Mad Men too!

[Lavender Dreams]

You do sound absolutely giddy! Which is FUN! I'm looking in your Etsy shop...again! Enjoy your day! ♥