Spring Time

Spring has arrived! Hallelujah! My favorite time of the year. The aroma of newly bloomed flowers will soon stimulate our olfactory receptors and the vivid colors of new life will grace our eyes. The wet grasses of spring mornings will dampen our shoes and the winds of season's change will charge the air with the pollen that will continue the harmonious dance of nature, bringing to life those things that have, since winter, died. Once more, I will begin my yearly battle with allergies and mosquitoes will begin to feast on my life blood. I love it.
This year has gotten off to a great start. No major calamities to speak of and everyone seems to be getting along well. I haven't had anyone threaten to fire, kill, or cut me yet. That's good.
This spring will not only bring with it flowers, grass, and mosquitoes. It will also bring with it, plenty of things to do. You need only to look at April's calendar to see that things are about to pick up. And that's not counting any degrees we may be lucky enough to confer. We have a Widow's night coming up and on that same night we will honor a brother with the Pillar's of Solomon award. I'm looking forward to it, and hope that there will be a good attendance. I'm hoping to have the OES cook us up some of their wonderful food on that night, as well.
I would like to close out with a beautiful little passage, by King Solomon, from the Holy Bible concerning Spring:

For behold, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone.
The flowers have already appeared in the land;
The time has arrived for pruning the vines,
And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.
The fig tree has ripened its figs,
And the vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance.
Arise, my darling, my beautiful one,
And come along!

~ Song of Solomon 2:11-13 (NASB)