(Spring is coming, Flo demanded to go outside today and sit on her porch steps in the sun. Maybe kill something running under the snow. She demanded to come back in an hour or so later.)

Tomorrow, off to New York City early to look at quilts, horses, and my daughter and her fiance. We’re leaving early to go to the Lehman College Museum Of Art in the Bronx and see the Gee’s Bend Quilts on exhibit – “The Gee’s Bend Tradition” – at the museum there. these are the quilts and the now famous artists, all descendents of slaves in Alabama,  that have inspired so much of Maria’s art and helped spark her decision to become an artist.

I have never seen these quilts up close and we are both excited to get close to them. After the visit to the museum, we plan on visiting the New York Carriage Horses and attending a rally if one is held in Central Park. We’re having dinner with my daughter Emma and her fiance Jay at a restaurant on the Lower East Side. We might slip another museum in along the way, maybe MOMA, which is my favorite.

New York is supposed to have temperatures above 40 on something, that would be something to feel.

We’ll be  back Sunday in time, I hope, to great the latest “wintry mix” promised for Sunday evening. All good stuff, I have accepted the loss of our beloved frost free water line, this winter’s cold weather was too much for it, although it did last for several tough months. Back to hauling buckets, we are game, if Deb Foster, our house sitter doesn’t quite and move to Florida. I think she would miss Red, we are counting on it. If she moves, we are following her.