The budding branches..

..picked off my apple trees a week ago and put indoors in the warmth of the house, unfolded some of their pretty flowers today - a premonition of what´s to come..

I put them in an old oats jar nexr to the lovely tulips in a similar coffee jar in the window. On the other side of the window, the garden is making itself ready for spring. The snow is melting away and there are quite a few white and yellow flowers popping up in the flower beds below..

The days are getting longer and we now have daylight until about 6 o´clock. I unpacked some of my old books today and enjoyed their beauty. The ones above on top are from around 1790. Now I just have to set out for the country auctions and make good bids for some antique book shelves to put them in. In style..

Humor and small scale "political problems"..

WASHINGTON—Eighteen senators were sent home from Congress Tuesday after a routine screening found an infestation of nits, larvae, and adult parasites living on the scalps of high-ranking Washington lawmakers.

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