House-husbands, hacking, and hummingbirds oh my!

So this is Matt's official week to be "unemployed". This means that his full time job is no longer there, but he still has two other part time jobs. I still have my one part time job, full time job, and then full time graduate school status. So this is a breathe of fresh air to be able to come home and enjoy the little things. When you have been living life in a tunnel (as I call it) you enjoy having fresh laundry, sleep, and someone to hold hands with. I've missed out on so many little things in the last few months, I'm ready to return to enjoying them. So to begin my new outlook on enjoying little things I'm going to mention some of my favorite things in spring.

Before I begin my lovely look on the bright side, I should warn that I was quite distraught over a virus that was on my work computer that ate my email alive and sent out emails to everyone on my contact list. This of course included professors, my boss, and my family/friends. It was a nightmare. Thank goodness for the wonderful tech geek husband I have and his recent unemployment and attentiveness to our family :)

My summers as a kid were spent on my grandparents ranch about 5 hours west from DFW area, and in a small rural setting called Eldorado. Now many of you are tempted to pronounce this like "El-doh-Rah-doh". But it is indeed pronounced by the locals and mayor for that matter as "El-doh-RAY-doh". This is imperative to the story by the way in case you couldn't figure it out. So many of these springs and summers were filled with magic. I used to get an anual letter from my grandfather (lovingly called big daddy) who would send me the first little purple flower.

I used to think that this was the only place in the world where humming birds exhisted. Every year they migrate across that region in Texas and for about four days it is hummingbird chaos. My Grandmother (lovingly called Grande', but pronounced Grandy), will refill the hummingbird feeders five times a day because of how many there are and she has about twelve feeders so you can do the math. Anyway it's one of the most magical sights you have ever seen. I was certain when I was younger that a magical fairy traveled with them and would land on my shoulder one day and then I too would become a hummingbird fairy that would flutter through the air and be able to beat my wings 80 times/second.

The wildflowers this spring have been incredible. They must be of course after the crazy precipitous winter we had. I have never seen so much snow in my life, and I knew that the first time spring arrives we will have such gorgeous flowers. My very favorite in the whole world is shown here, in the indian paintbrush picture with the blue bonnets in the background. I have picked these with my great grandmother when I was a little girl. Well this is one of the latest springs we have had too, as it still has not reached more than 90 for two days in a row. There will be some wonderful thunderstorms this weekend which I love.

So here I am in my little corner of the world, smelling the fresh air and enjoying my house-husband, hummingbirds, and learning lessons from hacking.