Summer

[liralen]

It's going to be 84 today.

Ugh. That's too hot.

I had a very intense bout of spring fever yesterday, and I think I'm over it now, with a good, solid bout of allergies and the summer too-hots.

Only the upside-down cherry tomato plants are hardened off to enjoy the sun, today. I'm going to work on the rest of the garden plants this weekend, it's nice having the extra two days, as on Friday I can start them off right after an evening out on Thursday, and with detailed instructions John can set everything out on Monday for any prescribed amount of time.

I'm still expecting One Last Frost or One Last Snowfall before Mother's Day; but I'll let the plants soak up the sun until then.

We all went to the Maundy Thursday service last night. Yes, it was Wednesday, but a scheduling conflict in the midst of a remodel of the church, and we bent. :-) It's the most depressing service of the year, for me, but it's a good foil to Easter, and kind of makes it complete for the old Catholic guilt hungry part me, makes the season something more than mindless candy hunts. Amusingly enough, Jet's pre-school is doing an "egg hunt" (no mention of Easter, it's all just bunnies and eggs and spring and colors, it tickles the pagan tendencies in me of just celebrating the season and enjoying the new green grass underfoot) on Friday. Jet's talking about how cool it is that God comes back to life, which spooks me somewhat.

Ah, old reflexes.

Jet was more patient than I was with the whole thing, and in the last quarter of the service, came into the worship area and, clear as a bell said, "Mom, you promised to come back and you didn't."

So I went with him to the kidcare area, and we played blocks, and when other kids came I helped make them all paper airplanes so they could fly them while the parents had their boring board meetings. That was fun.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Ooooo, 84!!! *wist*

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*grin*

Thank you for the perspective. :-)

It is good and summery, definitely.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Maundy Thursday, with footwashing and the garden of gesthemane and the story of the betrayal and arrest... is still not as depressing to me as the Good Friday Liturgy, reenacting the crucifixion.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just me... but the physical death and pain just doesn't hit me as hard as the betrayals and repeated denials and lack of support from his own friends and followers do. Even the night of prayer with the disciples falling asleep hits me much harder than the physical agony of dying.

Just confirming my lack of faith in human kind and acknowledging the fickle attention of even those that profess love. That's what depresses me. Dying for the right thing, that's courageous. Denying one you told you loved just a few hours ago, is every person's fear and weakness and a mirror for my own lack of courage, sometimes. That's why it makes me so depressed, I think.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Good point. Maundy Thursday is the beginning of the final betrayal, while Good Friday is when the suffering turns transformative.

I wasn't able to stay through the Good Friday service. I broke down when it was time for the veneration of the cross.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I'm glad you took care of yourself and left when you needed to. It's so hard.

*hugs*

[outintexas.livejournal.com]

The high today is supposed to hit 100.

What the heck happened to Spring?!?

For that matter, what happened to Winter? I think we spent most of January in the 70's and even hit 80 a few times.

This is ridiculous. It makes me dread what August is going to be like this year...

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Precisely.

I'll wish you a cooler spring and an unoppressive summer.

Global warming, it's just a scare tactic, huh?