Hope Springs Eternal

If you've been here a lil while, you know I am an avid reader. A rabid reader. An "I cannot remember a day where I didn't pick up a book" kinda gal. And I love the flavor of words. But I DO have One. Favorite. Word. One that erases winter, and gives me hope for spring. It lifts me up, and makes me smile to say it.
Furze[n]
–noun
gorse
I remember reading the word before we moved here, so that is more than 19 years ago. In a work by a british novelist....the kind where you're trying to figure out the lingo as you unravel the story. When I looked Furze up, it spoke of winter wheat, and gorse. But the FLAVOR of the word.....how the author used it........furze is the VERY first greening of spring. In my area,we have native bushes, they grow like weeds. These bushes are ALWAYS the first sign of spring...as you look out the window,day after winter day,eventually you realize the bushes have the faintest nimbus of green around them......you can't see individual leaves, just a green halo around the most protected bushes.....and you know spring has sprung, even if you get another snowstorm the next day. Well, I saw my first robin last week, almost a month early for me, and now I'm just waiting for furze. My whole family looks for it. I usually let Steve think he found it first. There you have it, Team Gails' Favorite Word. Start looking ! You southerners, stuff a sock in it already :O)

Hope springs eternal, tomorrow we go to see 2 more houses. Every one assures me, that they went thru the same thing we are going thru now. Out-bid, houses lost during escrow due to structural defects, radon, black mold, omg, the list is long. So I'll ask that you still keep em crossed,but maybe not as tightly as before,you've gotta be getting a cramp by now. Hehehe,we have the r.e agent, the r.e lawyer, 2 house inspectors, and all our financing lined up, and no house to use them on!

March 20:
-Vernal Equinox YAY YAY !!!!!

~"People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public."

-Bryan White ~