Done With March — Janet Szabo

At various times yesterday, we had sun, rain, snow, hail, wind, then sun again. Last night after dinner, the husband and I were sitting in the living room. I had just built a fire in the fireplace and was reading a book on my iPad. He was surfing YouTube. All of a sudden, it felt like my chair was moving around. I thought perhaps I was having some kind of dizzy spell, and then I happened to look into the kitchen and saw the pot rack swaying back and forth.

We were having an earthquake.

The epicenter was in Idaho, but the quake was strong enough (6.5 or so) to be felt as far away as Great Falls, Montana. I did say to the husband—before we knew it was in Idaho—that if the Yellowstone caldera was about to blow, that would make a lot of our other current issues irrelevant.

Just after we went to bed, our department got paged out for a structure fire. The husband left at 10:30 p.m. and didn’t get back until after 2:00 a.m. March wasn’t kind to that poor homeowner. And overnight, we had another, smaller version of the snow and windstorm that roared through here a few weeks ago.

I’m done with March. Totally and completely done. What a dumpster fire of a month that was.

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I’ve got tomatoes, corn, cowpeas, and cucumbers started in the greenhouse. Of course, the propane heater decided that this week would be a great time to malfunction, and a replacement (or parts) cannot be had anywhere in Kalispell. We had to order one. In the meantime, the husband put one of his construction heaters in the greenhouse. That is a bit of overkill, but it’s keeping it at a toasty 75 degrees inside. I expect to see seedlings popping up soon.

I’ve finished another two dozen masks. And I keep chipping away at the latest quilt project:

It’s a strange color combination but I like it. I especially like the combination of textures from the various prints. I also got the cowl for the Gap knockoff dress assembled and ready to attach.

Hopefully we didn’t lose any more trees last night. I’ll assess when the sun comes up.