The Jump

The snow is almost all gone now from the lawn. Every day I rake for about an hour or so, then scritch round in the beds for awhile to awaken the soil. things are beginning to look alive around here. At the foot of the hill out back, the remains of the jump that Colin and Soe made this New Year's Eve have lingered, refusing to melt, and this has all been helped along by the fact that it lay in the shadow of the pines. Yesterday did it in, however!! This morning, when I went out for my daily raking ritual, I was kind of sad to notice that all that remained of the jump was a dark, damp spot on the lawn to show that it had existed and had brought with it lots of laughs and great entertainment.