The wind is howling outside my window right now. No snow. No rain. Just wind, gusting up to 59 mph, the weatherman said. In some areas of Austin power lines are down and whole trees are blocking roads.
We're lucky. Nothing but the exhilarating wind here blowing through the Hollow, like a good spring cleaning.
Tom continues to lay stones down by the little pond. Today when he was preparing an area with a small rake, he came upon a yellow-green thing the size of a half dollar. A baby turtle!
In all, he discovered 6 or 7. He tossed them into the pond and they swam for cover. He thinks they may have been trapped in the dirt after they hatched because it's so packed from the work he's been doing down there.
I wish I could have seen them!
While he was saving baby turtles, I was in charge of two high school geometry classes. I was relieved the teacher left me an answer key for the practice sheets they worked on – it's been almost forty years since I sat in my sophomore geometry class figuring the size of angles in circles.
But when one of the kids had a question about a problem, I was delighted to find I knew the answer. In fact, when I took the time to look at it with my brain turned on, the whole worksheet was a breeze.
"Don't make it harder than it is," I told them. Alas, the voice of experience, but applicable to so much more than geometry and so easily forgotten.
I hope you've had a great Monday, no matter what the weather where you are!
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." ~ Jimmy Dean
Long Hollow 
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