On Mondays, I think about my life and the week ahead. I am surprised to see that it’s March and glad of it. We are looking forward to being warm.

We are always so happy to get to Spring. With the warm weather come heat and ticks and grazing (no hay hauling). And Spring signals the beginning of preparations for next winter – the hay, firewood,  slate repairs, pasture treatment.

Today, the temperature will edge up into the 50’s. As the ice melts, Zinnia and I can resume or more extended and more reflective walks. Somethings are easier in Spring. The animals can feed themselves; we don’t need to haul firewood to the wood stoves every day.

And I don’t have to tiptoe around on so much ice.

The way it’s breaking down is that I do most of less physical chores – shopping, cooking, tending to badgering repair people to come and other phone work, Maria does most of the farm chores. I am accepting what I can do and can’t do.

I don’t make a drama out of it.

Every Monday, I plot some good. This week, I’ve asked Sue and Mike at Bishop Maginn High School to ask around and find three students who need books or clothes or food. To me, that’s a lovely way to seek out some small and inexpensive acts of great kindness and quietly change some lives.

I want to help them. If you wish to join in that, you can contribute via Paypal, [email protected], or by check, Jon Katz, P.O. Box 205, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816. I’m thinking about $300.

I’m going small and comfortable for the next few weeks; I don’t wish to wear anybody out, we are an Army Of Good, but not an Army Of Rich.

I will do my story reading at the Mansion on Tuesday, go to Bishop Maginn on Wednesday, do my Mansion Meditation Class on Thursday. Maria and I are giving up calling Bingo for a while; there is just too much going on in our lives.

Sunday, Maria and I go to the Bronx Zoo. I’ll meet up with my daughter Emma and Robin, my granddaughter. Maria and I will exchange Valentine’s Day presents there.

She will meet the hissing cockroach at the Bronx Zoo that she named after her friend Jackie, and I will get to spent 30 minutes in a room with a Penguin. It should be interesting, but I don’t know what to say to a Penguin. I guess I’ll find out.

We’re going to say over Sunday night in a funky motel we found halfway between here and the Bronx. I’m getting past the kickback from Susan Popper, still not sleeping well and am fending off the political and health alarms.

Hopefully, we can still see the cockroach and Penguin.

I’m going to pick up my training with Zinnia again, working on longer stays. We have another therapy dog test to get through before she’s official, the one she passed was an interim test, therapy dogs have to be one or two years old to be official.

Maria had a spectacular week.

She sold all of her yarn and all of her Twin Healing Tree kitchen magnets, and some of her potholders.

More (slightly larger) magnets are coming on Wednesday and will be up on her Etsy Page.

You can also follow her energy and creativity on her blog.