Lots of spring fever going on around here. My kids can hardly sit still to do the littlest bit of work I have them doing at this time of year. They can't wait to get outside in the lovely warm weather and play.

My daughter took her dolly clothes outside and washed them in a little plastic box. Then she hung them up on some sticks to dry. How could I stop that. Tonight she brought them in to show me how nice and clean and fresh they were. They did smell fresh, and she did too. There was a big smile on her face and sparkles in her eyes. My son came in and delightedly told me there was a bumble bee going to the Coral Bells. A little later he came in and told me there was a grasshopper by the rose bushes and would I come catch for him. He was afraid that it would hop away. I knew I could catch it for him, but that would steal the joy he would have of figuring out how to catch it himself. I was pretty sure he could. Sure enough, it wasn't long before he was in with his prize in his little bug box. (I think his sister did help him a little bit.) We had to look up what they eat, and other interesting things about grasshoppers. Now he has an assortment of the leaves that were near him when he was caught. I hope that he is happy with at least one of them. Me? I finished reading a book found at a garage this weekend. It was an interesting book for called "Doc Susie." It is about a woman doctor in the early 1900's who went to the high mountains of Colorado to cure herself of Tuberculosis. She ended up curing herself, and staying to care for the people there, in the tiny lumber and railroad town. Her life was hard, but I agreed with much of her doctoring, and probably would have enjoyed parts of her life.