but it tricked my weak brain into believing spring is on it's way, and i got a bad bad case of cabin fever.
so to satisfy my outside urges, i removed the pine boughs from the front yard (and the christmas tree i arbitrarily tossed out there. i know, classy) and hauled them into the back...by my fire pit deck.
oh, how my mind reeled...
"these things have been drying for months...what great kindling they would make!" whispered the squirming voices in my spring- drugged mind.
-oh yes, i built the start of a fire.
i'll need to pick up some wood, ours is currently soaked, but i believe that tonight after our weekly wednesday venture to our favorite tavern for tacos i'll be wandering home to have a little fire out back.
that said, spring has polluted my mind indoors as well.
much to my fiancees dismay ("you're too early; it's still winter") i've taken to incorporating some brighter touches here and there. you know, trying to sneak them in...unsuccessfully.
-look, i get bored staring at the same things for long periods of time, and considering that it is winter in northern wisconsin and we are not a wealthy family, we spend a lot of time inside our home.
and though i don't mind it at all, i feel a bit more sane if at least i can change the scenery up a little bit (or completely) from time to time.
a couple of cheap things ive done in the past week or so:
recently the cats destroyed one of my bookshelves (cats are awesome. so awesome, in fact, you should take mine and experience the joy firsthand), so i dug up an old fruit crate i had laying around (yeah, i have stuff like that lying around) and stacked my books in that.
it is actually bigger and more sturdy than my old bookcase, and it works better as an end for my little bench (a ceder lined bench i salvaged from the curb). i actually like it better than the old bookcase, and it has a rad little moon drinking orange juice on top. who can resist that?
my coffee table was looking a bit drab and wintry, so so i foraged around the house and found a bunch of old blue canning jars of various sizes, cleaned them up, plopped tea lights in them, and reveled in my thrifty genius.
(oh, and my coffee table, it's an old trunk with a piece of plexiglass on top.)
it's not much, but it at least brightens it up a little.
oh, and a dog on the sofa is essential.
i know spring is still a couple months away, but i can at least make the wait a bit more pleasant inside. and enjoy a winter fire with a warm beverage outside.
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