Not to be a bummer. But, while I warmly welcome nice weather, I can’t help but feel the impending doom of the additional work that accompanies the sun’s rays.

My to-do list is already five pages long. Now that it’s warming up, that list is bound to grow just as fast as the weeds that mar my backyard.

Besides the typical lawn and flowerbed maintenance, we’ve decided to tackle the organization of the garage this spring. Just thinking about it makes me sigh heavily. Is it bad that the knowledge of this looming task makes me long for a bit more snow? I could handle just an ice storm. Is that asking too much?

Perhaps I’ll whittle down my task list this spring and go ahead and bring in the pros. After all, I’m lucky enough to have access to a List of people who may take pleasure in tilling the garden or organizing a bunch of G.I. Joe comic books.

That will leave me some more time to take care of the things I conveniently forgot to do this winter. Then I’ll have the opportunity to start checking things off that list. Maybe I should also find someone to install a fire pit in the backyard. That should take care of that to-do list once and for all.