I'm tired. It's not often I have a difficult time sleeping but, now, at sometime before 4am, I am wide awake and wondering why. It was 1 before I made it to bed and the noisy lady from upstairs woke me at 3ish while saying goodbye to her friends and, shortly after that, the storm rolled in with all of its wind. Really, though, I feel like those are all just excuses. I haven't been able to sleep soundly for a few days. I find myself aching for comfort in the night, unable to find it in my very comfortable bed. So, now I'm sitting here in the too-early morning hours listening to the windchimes sing in the rain... wondering if I like the sound of the rain better without them. I can't really decide.

Winter is over. The last day of the season is this Sunday. I didn't accomplish as much as I wanted to but I can say that I really enjoyed my winter here. I'm ready for spring, I think. The ground is already green and I feel like I'm just waiting now for the first leaves to appear on the trees to make it official. My hummingbird feeder went up yesterday.

In two more weeks I'll have been here a year. One of the best of my life.

I really want to be able to sleep.