Posts Tagged “spring”

Well it’s spring, and Archimedes has no interest in being inside. Luckily we live in Salt Lake City, so we are surrounded by the great outdoor. We decided to go to Memory Grove (City Creek Canyon) and throw rocks in the creak. Archimedes especially likes it when the water splashes Daddy in the face!

Lately, Archimedes has shown some serious improvement in his throwing arm. His aim has improved tremendously, in fact he can already out throw his dad. My fear is that he’ll grow up to be some million dollar baseball playing cash cow, but he’ll resent me for having his mother play catch with him. All I can offer him is how to make wise-ass comments and get away with it.

I suppose I should go buy a couple baseball gloves and learn how to play sports. The things we do for our kids.

I love living in Utah. I love the scenery, and I love the weather. We get the best of every season! Beautiful springs, with flowers budding, and bees buzzing. Our local honey is to die for!  We are the beehive state! (although I think that has more to do with the crappy wages that our Mormon work force is willing to work for.)

We get hot summer days (perfect for swimming.) Cool summer nights (perfect for camping and sitting around the firepit.) If you are an outdoor enthusiast Utah is quite possibly the most desirable place in the country. (as long as we can keep the republicans from raping everything.)

Fall in Utah can hold it’s weight against any other state in the union, have you ever seen an entire forest of quaking aspen as the trees bundle up for winter?  It’s beautiful with it’s golden yellows, surrounded by the red underbrush. Soon the leaves will fall,  the homeless will migrate to Santa Monica, and everyone starts bundling up in designer scarfs and hats. (here is Jeremiah sporting one of Sara’s hand knitted Viking helmets.)

… and yes I love winter too. When the snow falls, even my horrible landscape looks like a fairy land. The movie stars visit in January, and the cities overcompensate with lights and merriment. Ice skating, and cross country skiing. It’s wonderful!

The only thing missing, is an irresponsible Gay night life… Sorry Jose, guess you’ll have to start dating women.

The weather has been lovely and I’ve been watching spring come to life.

Admittedly  It’s been snowing here which seems counterproductive on the whole “Zach’s going to plant the new trees he bought two weeks ago” front.

But… It will warm back up, that’s how these things work. That’s why talking about the weather is so absurdely stupid. It’s cold and warm in March. This is Utah. It warms up, it cools off, it warms up again. EVERY SINGLE YEAR!

Yet, everyone acts as if the snow in March is somekind of shock! It’s not shocking, its March. March March March. If I were to assign some assinine meaning to the month I’d say “you know, March, like marching, or we’re marching on toward spring, right through the last bits of winter.” There you have it, I’m another loser talking about the weather.

Anybits, I figured I’d show all of you how beautiful the snow made my messy backyard look.