Territory

On a good day, I make butter. On a bad day, I make butter so that it'll be a good day. Today, was a good day, so I decided to make butter and have an even butter day! I didn't know how it would turn out--a lemon butter--on account of lemon being a fruit and an acidic one at that! Have you ever made tea? Have you ever put milk into your tea and then squeezed a lemon into the tea with the milk that you just added? If you have, you know that lemon juice and milk don't mix, they curdle.

I decided to add lemon zest to the heavy whipping cream, instead of lemon juice. The result: a surprisingly pleasant lemon butter! Success!

After I made the butter, I took Warden on a nice long walk. He peed on many things, marking them as his own. I wish it was that easy. I'd go up to a car I liked and pee on it and then hop into it and drive away, because I owned it! I'd pee on a house I liked and then walk inside and say: "Get out! Get out! This is my house!"

Today, winter died.

It is the first day of spring and it sure feels like it. I'm not upset that winter's passed. It was a hard winter.

I look forward to wearing t-shirts and flying kites and going on long cemetery walks with Warden.

I'm excited for longer days, and thunderstorms, and the leaves to appear in the trees again.