I surely hope this gorgeous spring weather is not an April Fool's joke. The last couple of days have been so amazing here, it seems like it's been a long, cold and rainy winter here in WNC.
The past week has been slowly warming up and we've been taking Maddy down to the French Broad River. We also took her out to the Laurel River last Saturday. She sure loves jumping in the water after a stick and then running back dropping the stick off and spraying us with water as she shakes off. We were hoping to see some spring flowers, but it was too soon. Spring is coming in late this year!
I spent some time hammering nails out of some old baseboard trim we pulled out of our house. Mat is going to put together some planters for me. I'm pretty excited for it since we have basically all the materials to make the planters here, now I just have to decide what flowers I want to plant in there. We are trying to come up with an alternative for a living space in our side yard. We don't have the money to put into the deck, but we still want an outdoor living space. We determined it would be more important to get the back porch insulated and install and washer/dryer set back there since Mat wants to try out cloth diapers!
I stopped by the farmer's market today to see if they had any fuschia hanging plants yet. They don't have them ready yet and said it will probably be at least 2 more weeks. Since we had such a cold, long winter everything is set back. :-( Sad for me, as I love the brightly colored fuschias and having the hummingbirds come up to our porch!
I love the colorful flowers too. It has snowed today and yesterday with light fluffy snow.
ReplyDeleteAlso I wanted to try the clothe diapers. Good luck. My fingers got so tired of rubbing the black, tar poop out that I gave up. In addition to the increased amount of washing you have to do because the clothes also get wet and poop on them so much more with clothe diapers. I'm not trying to dissuade you from what you'd like to do. Again good luck.
I ate grapes extra salty. The girls got a tonic water surprise. Kenzie had me put Food coloring in the taps. Abbie and kenzie had fits when the pranks were on them at least once each. Ella also had the chicken pox today. It snowed and the wind blew part of our fence down.
ReplyDeleteShaelea said we were really boring! We didn't do anything exciting! NEXT year I am sure I will some fun tricks on the kids.
ReplyDeleteWe did get a nice snowstorm so we were covered in SNOW when we woke up, that was our april fools suprise.
Sorry to hear about Ella that is not fun.