January in Missouri City

I love living here! Today is dedicated mostly to prep work for a day-long seminar I'm presenting in a couple of weeks. It's the first time to give the seminar, so there's lots of work to do. But it's in the mid-60's on January 24, with a clear sky and it's just too beautiful to be inside behind the computer all day. So for the last couple of hours I've been in the front yard raking and bagging leaves. Nine bags full. We have an old Ash tree, and it really dumps the leaves. This is the third or fourth time I've raked and bagged them this year, but now it's through. Finally all of its leaves have dropped. But the Live Oak next to it is just waiting until it thinks spring is really here. Then we'll start all over as it does its annual new leaves push off the old ones thing that Live Oaks do. So I'll be back out raking. But with weather like this, needing to rake leaves is a good thing. And doing one piece of work to temporarily escape another is also a good thing.