It's all about the "before" photos.

So here's my problem; I get half way through a project and then think, "I should be taking pictures of this".  The "after" photos aren't nearly as effective if there's no "before".

 Here it is.  The only before I have for this year.  You can't see the other 170 filled buckets and carts.  Or the scrapes and cuts.  Or the permanent bend in my back.  Really, I think this might be just an ad for John Deere.

 It's been a relatively lovely, dry (and by dry I mean not raining buckets constantly) spring around here.  So my poppies look beautiful.  Usually they look like wet tissue paper on a stem.

And look!  I found the vegetable beds!  And more importantly, planted things in them!  Kind of impressed with myself.  Does it show?

Of course now we have more lettuce than anyone can be expected to eat.  

Who wants salad for breakfast?

Holy Toledo I finished it!

 I started this in January when the power went out.


Here it is, spring in the great Northwest, also known as Junuary, and I've finally finished!

The kit has enough yarn to make two of these...anyone want some yarn and instructions cause I'm never doing this again!

We now return to our regularly scheduled life..

Only one more week of school and I can stop getting up at the crack of dawn to make lunches!  Can't wait!

The Hen Has More Chicks

I mean really, who can resist these?  The boys in the family were against it, but we girls (including the other hens, I like to think) won.

This is one of the men who hates chickens.  For the record, I'm not the one who brought them in the house this morning...

So it's Freddy, Hazel, and Dorothy added to Blanca, Karen, and Azul.  Yes, the names all mean something, but it's ridiculous to get into.

Yeah for spring chickens and (if it stops snowing and blowing here) Spring!

Thank goodness the sun came out.  I was beginning to feel as though I'd never see blue sky again.  The crocuses (or is it crocusi?) came out in full force today in my flower beds.  Apparently they've had a busy winter spreading themselves willy-nilly; love it!

Now if the grape hyacinths would bloom before the elk find them, my spring will be nearly perfect!





And speaking of perfect (nice segway, no?), how about these new diaper bags?

New baby, new bag; it's Spring (well, nearly)!

enjoy the weather and the newness that is this time of year....


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