A smattering of observations

Filed our tax return two weeks ago. We actually get a refund this year (been several years since that happened). I guess there's one benefit to getting paid half what I used to get in the corporate world. 'Course the refund will maybe cover our cable bill, but any accountant will tell us we made out perfectly: not owing and not getting too much back so Uncle Sam hasn't had free use of our hard-earned dough.

Nor'easter blew through over the weekend. Lost two trees. And we saw God's providence in it. Last fall I started clearing brush and trees but ran out of light and warm temperatures. I had to leave a tree trunk with no limbs for spring. Yesterday, a neighboring tree split and fell...right into the crook of the tree trunk I'd left. Otherwise we would hae lost at least two windows, and likely sustained damage to the siding of the house.

I had no idea why I left the truck: it would have taken me two more minutes to fell it, but I didn't. But God knoew that trunk had to be there yesterday.