Wednesday, February 22nd is starting off as a sunny, slightly warm morning with a bevy of guests out there at the buffet, emptying feeders little by little. I'll need to fill them before the day is over. In fact, I may go to Wild Birds and get a couple of replacement feeders. Some of my bigger feeders are really getting raggedy thanks very much to my squirrel guests. I swear they could tear up a steel box.

Today is the 31st wedding anniversary for Julie and Jim. That is hard to believe. Of course it is just as hard to believe that Sunday Ms. Kate and I will celebrate our 51st. I can't recall if I was the commander of the Security Police Squadron at Hanscom Air Force Base yet or was still working on the staff of Electronic Systems Command. The dates run together at this point. Either way, 31 years is a long time. If I were to go back to that squadron to visit as a former commander, the people of the squadron that I knew would all be long gone and the current people would be polite but probably a little frustrated that some old fart Colonel was keeping them from doing their job. I sometimes think about the units I have commanded, and the positions I held that were important at the time but no longer have value. Commanding the 99th Security Forces Group as a Colonel was my "dream job".  And yet, that has been 18 years (and nine new unit commanders) ago. Time does march on doesn't it. But, the great thing is how many of my former people stay in contact with me. Social media has made that possible.

I finished up the front flowerbed yesterday and got the dead winter stuff off of it. The lillies are already doing a good job of pushing through the stuff but it looked bad. I hope wwe don't have a hard freeze come along and kill everything off. I doubt it will happen but I also know we are going to have some low thirties and upper twenties yet this week. The spring roller coaster is well in gear. My daffodils are really budding out now although I don't have any open. The water spirea has a few blooms on it already and there are buds on the forcithia too. Jim asked me Sunday if I wanted to go ahead and take the snow blade off of the John Deere and I told him I didn't think so. We've often had snows in the month of March and I'm not going to rush it. Besides, the only thing really browning in the yard is the wild onions and one dandelion.

My toaster strudel is gone and my coffee cup is empty. It is time to get busy. I hope yur day is as full of blessings as it is sunshine. God is good, all the time. Take a moment or two of your day and stop and give Him glory. Blessings!