Someone recently made the comment that New England has three seasons:  winter, summer, and the week in between!  That seems to be the case this year.  We have had above-normal temps for the last 2 weeks, and as a matter of fact it's 83 here right now!  Oddly enough, though, despite the record snow we had over the winter, we are way down on our rainfall for spring and it is SO dry.  The forest fire danger is at its most elevated level.  I was raking yesterday and kicking up dust so fine that I was getting grit in my teeth and I felt like Pigpen from the Peanuts gang!  The soil in this area is very sandy anyway, so when it dries out like this, it's like the dustbowl of Oklahoma in the '30s.

I dismantled the garden plot yesterday, also.  Kind of sad, but I just don't have it in me to tend it this year.  It's a lot of work, and the stuff that grows best in this sand, I still have tons of left over from last year!  I think I will support my local farmer's market in the summer this year instead.  I may get some tomatoes and plant them in containers, but that's about it.

The situation with our DS11 has mellowed out considerably since my last post.  His dad has sat him down to try to talk about what's going on, and as we were starting to suspect, he was upset about us taking the house off the market right now.  He was all ready to move on!  We told him that we were, too, and that this isn't permanent, but that the timing just isn't right this year, and hopefully things will turn around enough that we can sell next spring.  He's dealing with it much better at this point, and returning to his normal self rather than all the acting out.  Sometimes you just have to get to the bottom of what's really bugging a kid!