West of Mayberry

30+ day Challenge, Day 13 -Something You Are Looking Forward To

Spring.

I might have given a different answer on a different day.

We have had several weeks of very cold weather and snow.  Unusual for East Tennessee, where winter usually means cool temperatures and rain.

But yesterday it was a very sunny 63 degrees, and today it pushed to 67.

I got a taste of Spring, and now I can’t wait for it to really get here.

None of the sweet smells and bursting colors, yet.  But, it was a chance to get Granny out onto the screen porch to air her out and knock some of the old lady smell off her.¹

Also, I took a little drive around the countryside with the windows down in the truck, and enjoyed the sun on my bare torso doing a little yard work and some skins basketball.²

Because even my body³ can’t seem to wait for Spring, either.

I’m battling the Springtime Hornies.

You know how some days you just feel bigger than the others? Well, today is not one of the others.

I know it’s only a temporary thing and soon we’ll be back to cloudy and cool.

But, that’s not going to keep me looking forward to when Spring is in full swing.

And I am too.

{ fin }

1. That’s a joke.  Just wanted her to get some fresh air. [↩]
2. also did a little free-ballin’ while I was ballin’. [↩]
3. Or at least a few inches of it. [↩]

§ 10 Responses to Forward Thinking"

• Kevin M says:

  January 30, 2011 at 7:12 pm

  Sorry, but the part of your body that’s itching for spring qualifies as more than “a few” inches.
• Will says:

  January 30, 2011 at 8:16 pm

  I love the spring hornies. But for me they’re not a great deal stronger than the summer, fall and winter hornies!
• Sue says:

  January 30, 2011 at 9:36 pm

  Oh Tony! You hurt me! We have soooo long to wait for Spring! We won’t see that high a temperature until at least May. I love that “knock some of the old lady smell off of her”. Too funny. We still have two feet of snow here. Sigh.
• Paul from Q says:

  January 30, 2011 at 10:06 pm

  Swing low, indeed. Thanks.
• John says:

  January 31, 2011 at 7:09 am

  I have often wondered why this happens. It’s probably one of the reasons I hate winter gloom. Why does it happen though? Is it to do with blood flow? Is it to do with current flow? The chiasm, the junction between the two optic nerves, passes just above the pituitary, and the pituitary controls hormone flow. We know that primates, apes and humans, do not have estrus and may mate all year long, but is this warm weather urge some remnant of an evolutionary past eons ago, when our DNA lived in more primitive beings that went estral in the springtime? It’s fun to ask questions when the answer is right there, staring the Attorney right in the face.
  
• Todd/Imnot2bzy says:

  January 31, 2011 at 8:16 am

  Amen Brother! I’m done with Winter already!
• A. Lewis says:

  January 31, 2011 at 9:55 am

  I love those little blips of late-winter-early-spring days when the temperatures tease us.
• brian says:

  February 1, 2011 at 6:38 am

  By the calendar, spring begins in less than eight weeks.
  Let us hope that proves accurate.
  The sap is rising everywhere!
• Rick says:

  February 1, 2011 at 7:28 pm

  I long for those spring days, horny or not!
• Brahm (alfred lives here) says:

  February 2, 2011 at 2:59 pm

  We are stuck in winter, so love the idea of spring anything!

  This place sounds cool. I love the idea of signing in on a chalkboard and watiing to be called, so much more personal than those beeper things or having no staff there at all!