A Little Sunshine in My Bowl...

Although we have had a mild winter so far, one thing has stuck out. That one thing: we reached record cloud cover for January. That might seem minor on the surface, but it makes me realize that happiness might be all the more simple than I think. After a week of clouds, I get seriously bent. Very…seriously…bent! I wonder what is wrong with me, why life is so hard, why the world is so out of whack? And then, we get a sunny day, just one, and I’m happy. Like a child dipped in sugar. And being made happy so easily, I get bent again! “You mean to tell me, all I need is some sunshine to be freaking happy?! Oh what the hell!” And then, with no other recourse, I get happy again. Because Mother Nature is probably going to throw clouds at us again tomorrow, and I might as well take a little honey in my tea while it’s there. It’s temporary happiness steeped in suspicion. Can it really be all that simple?

Despite the clouds, the winter has been mild and manageable. As if to prove it still has punch, after pulling the others for the last few months, we’ll have a couple arctic days. But then, warmish again for this weekend’s markets. With sunshine I hope. I mean, I’ll take whatever. Warm just in time for the weekend markets? Okay! Fine. I won’t complain. But being February, I’d like to formally put in my request for an early spring. I herby formally request an early, gradient towards sunshine, beautiful spring. But I’ll stop right there, with one mere request and transition to hope.

As we do get closer to spring, I need to start taking stock of everything and mentally prepare. Most of the crew is hired for the season (intro’s in April), and many of the supplies have been stockpiled since the fall. I still need to get seed purchased, finalize a few minor supply orders, finish the tractor tuneups and figure out a Sunday Market. Of course, there are the thousand little things that stay on the clipboard list. But this year, more than any other, is banking on my requested lovely spring. C’mon Mamma Nature, it’s not just me!! We all deserve it!! A mostly sunny, rain at the right time’s, easy going spring.

If we have a nice sunny spring like that, I won’t even get resentful that happiness could be that easy.