The Itch

Don't get me wrong

I like having a big window in my bedroom office

(my office office has a window that I can't see out of when I am working)

There are far more pros than cons

when it's the dead of winter

with three feet of snow

and temperatures to freeze your lungs if you dare breathe

it's nice to be behind the glass

with a little electric heater at my feet subsidising the wood stove heat

but the last dredges of snow melted a few days ago,

the temperature is bearable

the wind is blowing

(I like wind)

and I really, really want to be outside.

There's something in the spring air that calls,

louder than the summer heat

"come outside, be outside, work outside"

I can hear it now...

I am finished my work for today

as Wednesdays are half days for me

and I'm going to go find some work gloves, the wheelbarrow

and a rake

and be outside.