Silver white winters that melt into springs

These are a few of my favorite things (from today):

•mercifully not having the early church schedule this morning after I (a) stayed up too late last night and (b) forgot it was the weekend to spring forward the clock
•reading in bed
•the big debut of my "new" thrift store dress (most of the world didn't notice, but Rob liked it)
•little floods of ideas
•Opera Miss came to church today after a long hiatus and we got to laugh with her and her mom
•Opera Miss was accepted to the music program at the U, natch!
•being the recipient of a partial gum wrapper manicure during the Young Women lesson
•watching the first two bees of 2008 dive head-first into our yellow crocuses and vigorously throw their whole buzzing bodies into the work of gathering pollen
•watching Rob give his favorite new tie to his dad because his dad really liked it (an even bigger deal because Rob very rarely buys new ties)
•three extended family dogs enjoying a friendly reunion, and dancing around and around each other till their leashes were tightly braided and they turned themselves into a barking three-headed beast
•reminiscing about the time Oscar(ina), our old neighbors' pathetically affectionate and emotionally neglected backyard Bassett Hound, wrapped about a mile of leash cocoon-style around the little girl who always teased him/her, and nearly dog-kissed the kid's screaming face off before her parents rescued her
•having our first sit-down visit with our newest next-door neighbors
•driving to the lake to find out if the spring peepers had started up their love songs yet (nope)
•taking the back way home, stopping to visit some horses in a field, and introducing them to shelled pistachios and peppermint Altoids (big hits, both)
•parking on a dead end road and listening to an exquisite sunset
•the moon's smile, even more slim and sly than it was last night
•kisses without whisker puncture wounds
•after receiving a particular email, getting a favorite song from my childhood stuck in my head, and then finding this version of it on YouTube (I'll post the lyrics for Lois since she has has dial-up):



I'd do anything
For you, dear, anything
For you mean everything
To me, I know that

I'd go anywhere
For your smile, anywhere
For your smile, everywhere
I'd see

Would you climb a hill? Anything!
Wear a daffodil? Anything!
Leave me all your will? Anything!
Even pay my bill? One hundred bucks?!

I'd risk everything
For one kiss, everything
Yes I'd do anything (Anything?)
Anything for you!

Would you lace my shoe? Anything!
Paint your face bright blue? Anything!
Catch a kangaroo? Anything!
Go to Timbuktu? And back again!

I'd risk everything
For one kiss, everything
Yes I'd do anything
Anything for you!