A portrait a week for a year.
This week- it was a company sponsored employee free day at the Denver Zoo.  Corrine and daddy rode on the carousel.

And just before the rain this week.  Rain.  Not snow!  Although the mountains are getting snow.   In the ground are radishes (french breakfast and some white icicle), lettuce, spinach, kale, carrots and beets.  The rule of thumb here is to plant the warm weather crops after mothers day.  I'll probably wait to plant them for a couple of weeks.  It's still frosty in the mornings.

Tuesday was shoulder surgery.  All went well.  Even better, my rotator cuff did not need to be re-attached so the time my arm will be in a sling is minimal.  The Dr. filed down the bone spur and cleaned up the cuff.  Now begins the most intensive six weeks of physical therapy.  I had lost a lot of range of motion, so we will begin to get that back.  Not looking forward to it.   I'm kind of still in my happy place right now, you know, better living through chemistry!

When I got home late from work Wednesday night I'd say we had about five inches of snow.  It is a very wet and heavy snow.  Luckily the trees don't have leaves yet.  That would be a  mess.  But it's cold again, 25 degrees on the way home.  I'm hoping the cold doesn't harm my fruit trees.  The snow won't stick around.  I'm guessing most of it will be gone tomorrow.  We do desperately need the moisture so maybe this will help the wildfire situation later in the summer.

This isn't the latest it has snowed in Denver.  I grew up in the mountains outside of Boulder and can remember when I was in the 7th grade we got three feet of snow on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend.  The news the Tuesday night said the latest it has snowed was in the 1940 and it was on June 4th!  Now that is springtime in the Rockies!

Today I worked for a while on the citron while waiting at the mechanic for my car to be fixed.  (Hubby- out of town.  The G's- out of town.  Corrine- at the babysitter.  So why not sit and knit?).  I am on the fifth section and will probably add two or three more sections to make it bigger.  I have plenty of yarn and probably will not use it for anything else.  I'm not really liking this lace weight yarn, it just feels funny working with something so thin.

I finally finished The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling.  I didn't particularly care for the book, mostly because I love Harry Potter so much and this was such a complete turnaround from that type of book.  I can't say I hated it, but I didn't like it either.  I'm not sure what to read next.  I've got a ton of books on my bookshelf from a friend who reads them then passes them off to me.  She's retired and reads a lot.  I have a two year old and am too tired at night to read.  Ha.  Ha.

Happy Yarn Along Wednesday.