TheBanyanTree: An Incredible Run

[Margaret R. Kramer]

It’s been an incredible run of warm days.  The highs have been in the 70s.
The sun has been shining.  It’s been a wonderful spring, especially after
our wimpy winter.  Maybe our climate is warming up and Minnesota will
eventually become a tropical paradise.

I’ve opened up the windows and let that fresh spring air waft through the
house.  We can hear the kids in the neighborhood playing basketball across
the street.  I love hearing the slap of the ball on the pavement and the
THUNK it makes as it goes through the basket.

Other neighbors across the street are working on their landscaping.  They
and several of their children are adding small landscaping rocks to their
garden.  I can the hear the scrapes and thuds as they fill containers full
of rock and then dump the rock into their garden area.

Kids are riding their bikes up and down the street.  One of the older boys
rides his ATV up and down the street, which is illegal, but he’s pretty
careful about it and he doesn't’t do it late at night or anything, so that’s
OK with me.  I’d rather have him ride his ATV on the road then tearing up
some forest floor.

We have some teenagers in the neighborhood, including the ATV boy, and there
is a little love in the air, or is it just plain old lust?  These children,
whom I remember as toddlers have grown up.  I see groups of boys and girls
flirting and it’s good to know that video games and computers haven’t
replaced good old face to face flirting.

A couple of the kids have gained weight over the winter and that’s sad to
see.

We can wear jeans at work on Fridays and some of the men wore shirt sleeved
shirts yesterday.  With the warmer weather, body parts are being exposed,
and it was good to see bare arms again.

I like feeling lighter.  I haven’t had to wear a winter jacket.  I can wear
some of my pastel colored spring clothes.  I can walk outside without
bundling up.

I hope this run accelerates through summer and lasts into fall.

Margaret R. Kramer
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I see great things in baseball.  It's our game - the American game.  It will
take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger
physical stoicism.  Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set.
Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
~Walt Whitman