Maria Blogs

Clocks were adjusted over the weekend, three weeks earlier than usual, as we try to maximize daylight now that spring has arrived. Daylight savings time usually happens around the first week of April, and it has been so for the past 20 years.

Ahh spring … cool, wet, and frankly, miserable … unless it’s almost Summer and plants are finally blooming. Living a hermetic existence over the winter, spring is almost a welcome sight .. except it also means the unceasing sounds of tree cutters day after day after day, of car stereo blaring all over the neighborhood as hibernating year-rounders come out of the woodwork to survey the lawn and clean up the pile of gunk accumulated over the fall and winter months.

I can’t wait for the sundae school to open up, hopefully earlier than the second week of April this year. It’s by far the best ice cream I’ve tasted in all of my 34 years. Can’t wait for the lobster pot to open up, as well as the seafood market next to “Tiffany’s” (one of the more expensive local groceries in town) up in Truro. Yum yum yum!

Though I’m so ready to go back to the Philippines, no doubt I’ll miss the Cape with it’s quaint acquired-taste living that I’ve had for the past couple of years. So here’s hoping my last summer will be a blast!