6 Miles

Wow, did that last week disappear fast! After flying the kites last Saturday, we had 4 days of cold and rain.  We spent the days inside and doing various things around the house.  By Wednesday we were ready for the rains to be done, but it had gotten pretty chilly out! Thursday we enjoyed some time outside and by Friday it was in the 80s! We joined several friends at the park after preschool (here are pictures of that for those not on Facebook) . Saturday we spent the day doing yard work. Sunday we recovered from all the work, relaxed, and got ready for James’ mom to visit. We’ve had a nice time hanging out with her the last few days, but tomorrow she leaves to go back home.  I’ll update the adventures we’ve had with her tomorrow.

Here’s are some highlights of the week/weekend of yard work:

This is one of two shrubs we got last summer for the fall colors–but I’ve been LOVING the fun flowers they have this spring! Fun surprise…it’s called a fothergilla shrub if you’re interested.

The boys played/raced down the drive way while I weeded and weeded and weeded. (And after 4 days in the 80s and more rain, I have MORE saplings to weed. We’ve had SO many of tiny maple trees sprouting up, last year must have been a bumper crop of helicopter seeds!)

This Flowering Almond is a start I got from my dad, who started his from my Great Grandmother (and that start went from Indiana down to Texas with us, and then he brought another start back to Indiana when we moved up here 15 years ago). I’m VERY excited it’s doing well, for the family heritage as well as the  beautiful pink flowers it produces.

This tulip with the pink rim was a surprise–I thought it’d be just white.

Saturday, one of the baby bunnies we have living in our yard (or the neighbor’s, we’re not quite sure) appeared. Alex is feeding it some grass.

James picked it up and the boys got to pet it. It was shaking so bad! He let it go, it hopped over a bit and then made an odd noise. We checked a bit later and it had died. When Alex asked me later “Mommy, why did the baby bunny die?” I told him it was because they have tiny hearts and if they get too scared it can cause their hearts to stop working. Alex then said “The bunny died because Daddy picked it up?”  Well, yeah, but I wasn’t going to say that!  The neighbor killed another, but the boys have seen another one hopping around. They were eating my plants so I wasn’t TOO upset to lose the two we’ve already lost, we’ll see how this third one does.

James also borrowed a device to make getting dandelions out of the grass easier. He’d pick them up and the boys had a great time picking them up and throwing them on the driveway (that was to make getting rid of them easier).  That roped off area is where we have grass seed growing.