Spring Cleaning

Now that we have warmer weather, it’s time to get busy in the yard.

Daffodils appeared all over our yard. Lovely!

I keep finding some friends in the yard too.. this little one was relocated to a safer place. (ie. where I wasn’t digging and raking)

The shop needed a good cleaning. Done!

And the yard needs a LOT of work. We’re starting it. A little bit at a time.

I edged the grass around the patio.

Briars everywhere…

I’m posting these as ‘before’ photos. We’ll see how the progress goes!

The garden…

Trellises.

These are the briars we have all over the place!

Dead wood all over.

Wild roses.

I’m thinking that we have a lot of clearing to do before we can put fences up.

My adventurer…

More mess in the front yard. Vines all over! Pretty flowers on the tree though.

The clubhouse also needs fixing up… here are before photos for this project -

The garden fencing and gate needs repair too.

More pretty flowers running wild in the yard.

And a new biker running wild in the driveway.

And to wrap up this post about lots of work to do, here’s Ninja to demonstrate some relaxation techniques.

April Birthday Girl

April brings us Honor’s birthday. We really mixed her up this year as we had plans on her actual birthday – which was ok with her, we asked – so we had multiple days of celebrating. On one day, after piano lessons, we went out to Coal Fire pizza. Good choice!

Brother and sister goofing off at the music school.

Brian practicing before his lesson.

Perfectly good pizza, but she has to try the lemon!

Ah! That’s better!

For her birthday dinner, Honor chose The Melting Pot. A local fondue restaurant that she’s been wanting to go to since we moved her and she saw it! It was really good, and the service was beyond excellent! We’ll definitely go back.


And finally, we had a day for cake and presents! I remembered to get the cake stuff, but totally forgot candles!

She got some videos that Brian thought she’d like, and her dad picked out the little turtle for her.

We also got her a bunch of paint and supplies to fix up her clubhouse.

Other than celebrating Honor’s birthday, we’ve  been doing normal stuff, like going to school…this is Brian at the bus stop.

Practicing piano

And teaching the cat to drink out of a cup.