And now it is April

I keep looking out the kitchen window and looking at the grass. I am trying to see if the grass is slowly  becoming green from that dead brown winter color. Every day I think that it looks a little greener.
The grass though is not the only thing I saw from my kitchen window. The other day I noticed some drain spouts from the side of my house had come unattached from the roof. There was one on the side closest to the porch and one from the front  of the house by the garage and one little piece from the bottom of a pipe outside my bedroom.
My friends Kathy and her husband Mick came over when I was sick with a cold and fixed the  drain pipes for me. So nice of them.
After the problem with the flooring in the kitchen I began to notice a scratching noise in the wall of the living room. I thought to myself, "Oh, no.  A mouse has gotten in."  Remembering the problems at the house on Elm Street, I  fully expected to smell a dead mouse smell one day as I opened up the door. But no dead mouse smell ever occurred. For several days I didn't hear any scratching and then one night as I was cooking some spaghetti I heard it again. Ah, I thought the mouse likes my cooking, but again no droppings and no dead mouse smell. The sound went away.
Then over the weekend and yesterday I heard it again in the day and told my hair dresser about it. The hair dresser mentioned it to Kathy at the beauty shop today. When she and Mick came over to fix the ice machine, I told them about it. Mick went out into the yard and began to look for  a way for a critter to get in, and as he was checking the house, he saw a really big raccoon getting into the attic by going under the roof. As he was also checking the house, he noticed a long section of soffit was missing from the roof in the back. So  I have a new set of problems:
1.  I need to get the raccoon out of the attic, the wall, and the roof.
2.  I need to get the roof fixed.
3.  I need to get the animal poop and urine out of my attic and wall.
4.  Someone needs to check in the walls to make sure they aren't destroyed by the raccoon.
5.  I need to keep on working to pay for the repairs.
And on top of this I still have a cold that doesn't want to get better!
Is it any wonder that I am looking out the back window for spring to get here with warm weather and green grass?