Can Spring be far behind?

We are steadily inching towards March, which in Texas pretty much means all the cold weather is behind us for a while. We've had a, um, shall we just say, a 'stranger than normal' Winter. Warm, sun-basking days three days away from 18° accompanied by ice and snow. We don't have snowplows in these parts, and are lucky to have a few sand trucks. We had some terrible ice which just shut us down. Tonight the low temp should be somewhere in the low 30's...but Friday it's going to hit 70. My poor eccentric car with a schizophrenic sensor buried deep in it's innards, pops the 'Check Engine' light on whenever the temps change. For only 3 days mind you (or until the weather smooths back out), but since the weather has been so crazy, it's having problems. We had a stretch of warm weather over the weekend up to yesterday when it went down by 30°; light came on as soon as the temp dropped. Poor thing. I'll be glad when the weather evens out and the light stays off. My larkspur is starting to come up and I'm hoping for another banner year. Jonquils are already blooming. Daffodils should show up in another couple of weeks. Trees look like they want to bud out, but I hope they hold off for this last gasp of winter.

The kitty gave me a scare a few weeks ago - she just stopped eating. Got her to the vet asap, but bloodwork came back great. We decided to wait on x-rays because she didn't seem to be in any pain, and treated her with some antibiotics, a few de-stress pills and 5 huge syringes filled with this white stuff I swear was Mylanta, or the pet version of it anyway. Ever try to squirt a lot of stuff down a cat's throat? The only positive I chalk up is to say I got 'most' of each syringe down her throat for five nights. A day and a half after the first pills and mylanta, she was wondering where dinner was and being quite vocal about it. Vet said it was an upset stomach - probably something disgusting she ate out in the back yard, but it was a really expensive tummy ache. She's fine now.

I've reached a new milestone - 4 Mexican-food dinners in less than a week. Visiting with friends and family over dinners and lunches made every bite worth it. Thanks Gary, Rosalia, Cecil, Justin and Jamie. The last Tex-Mex indulgence was with some of my high school friends I've reconnected with in the last few years. We gathered for a birthday party for Georgia, our amazing actress in the bunch. I do have to say this, it's amazing how all the petty things that separated some of us in high school have fallen down a cliff somewhere and stayed there. Guess we finally grew up. I can just hear all of our dearly departed parents now..."'Bout time!"