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Today the sun shone for the first time in one million years. Or a week. Something like that, I didn’t keep terribly detailed records. We in the Rocky Mountains are a tad sun-spoiled, unused to more than two days in a row of cloud cover. So when spring hands us a full week plus of gray, overcast coldness, the return of the sun is a thing to be celebrated.

And oh, today was a day worth celebrating. Perfect spring-ness, cool but mild, with miles of blue sky and an embarrassing spectacle of sunny gorgeousness. All the rain of the past week has left the lawns and fields around here a deep, drenched green.

The drawback to all the gorgeous weather is that it’s hard to do school. Attention wanders, books slip unnoticed out of hands, feet stray of their own accord to the back yard.

The kids were having a hard time focusing too.

Honestly, you can feel the difference in the air here, at Kira’s Academy for Boys, when the sun shines. Sure, the school work happens a little more slowly, but that’s ok. It’s like someone’s come through with that room mister of Valium I’ve been wanting. We bumble along, entirely forgetting the task at hand at regular intervals, but happy about it.

I’m sure we’ll buckle down tomorrow.