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So I guess Spring has really Sprung…

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I was getting suspicious about Spring in Colorado. We had a streak of some wonderful weather with temperatures in the 60s to even 80 degree F (16 – 26 C) and I thought Spring was really here (even did a garden clean out in preparation for Spring planting) and then BAM – SNOW STORM!

But the snow is gone and the first trees to really pop in my section of Eastern Colorado are really popping – the Crabapple Trees!

This scene from my daily walk yesterday made me really happy:

Yay! The smell from the flowering Crabapples was so deliciously fragrant, especially coupled with the warm weather (70 degree F yesterday).

I am starting to believe it is really Spring (until the next snowstorm, ha!)

Oh and with Spring comes new musical adventures:

John used to play guitar when he was a teenager and was sort of a guitar prodigy. He shared he could have had a career in it if he had pursued when he graduated high school. Instead college and life distracted him and he never played again.

For the past year he’s been talking about wanting to pick up the guitar again, but hasn’t bought a guitar. I found a guitar at Costco (some of you might be cringing, ha, but it is at least a Yamaha guitar) – a Keith Urban guitar with lessons included, and convinced John we should buy it.

Well John is currently enjoying relearning the guitar! If you are on Instagram you can pop over to @tierneycreates and see John practicing his guitar.

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27 thoughts on “So I guess Spring has really Sprung…”

  4. My brother in law returned to the guitar about 10 years ago, started playing at open mikes, ( which he still does especially when he travels for work)then he started getting asked to play events and now he gets paid to play fairs, various events like at a half marathon (where they have gathering spots for spectators often they have music too), lunchtime at the park etc. so…. Who knows? It seems my brother in law has a lot of fun with it.

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      1. Seriously. First step – open mike events. My brother in law has found a lot of support and friends and enjoyment in his music and it seems to me it started off this way, because he just wanted to play.

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  8. Snow oh no! I love my crabapple tree and so do the birds in the fall, they love the ripe tiny apples. Seeing the trees lining the street is a beautiful view. John is very lucky to have you as you are him!

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  9. Keith Urban is a stud on the guitar! Are the lessons on DVD and is he the one instructing? Mo will pick this up so fast! See you Friday morning with the incorrigible and unashamed Mike🥰

    Those blossoming crabapple trees are gorgeous! I hope the blossoms hang on til we get there. I haven’t looked at the weather forecast. It changes so quickly. I’ll take a look and pack accordingly. I hope the guys have decent deck building weather.🙏

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  10. How awesome that he is picking it up again! That will be so much fun for you both 🙂 I feel your pain with the hot/cold/hot/cold weather. Yay for spring finally springing!

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  12. I attended a Celtic Festival with my son in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada last weekend, and the temperatures were in the 40s, with rain, and some snow in the forecast. It didn’t snow in the foothills, but in the Sierra Nevada, we had a couple inches. In May! Go figure!

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