The back yard is DONE.

For the moment, of course--that will only last until things start growing again, but I have to tell you, it looks really good out there. So good, in fact, that my first thought, after looking at it for a bit, was, Damn, we need to have a party before it all grows back ( Read more... )

I spent the better part of the day in the back yard yesterday, doing massive clean-up. It's been a pretty awful season here for gardening--we went from cold and raining to oh-my-god-too-hot-to-do-ANYTHING in about three and a half seconds, so there wasn't much opportunity to try to get a leg-up on things and do a proper spring cleaning before all ( Read more... )

I went out and did some stuff and I can say that you can see the back yard now ( Read more... )

Dear Belle's brain ( Read more... )

When I woke up this morning, the sky was clear, the sun was warm, and the birdies were having an absolute choir practice all over the place, with various tweets and warbles and cheeps filling the air ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning, on my way out, I took some pictures of the remnants of Thursday's storm, because the forecast predicted that the temperatures would be going up and no doubt the ice would be melted by noontime ( Read more... )

I got outside early today, to beat the heat. I had weed whacking to do, but there were plenty of quiet things to do out there as well, so I didn't risk offending the neighbors too early ( Read more... )

...except maybe retirement.

Anyhoo.

We started off the day yesterday getting our summer haircuts--and I was grateful for that, because being shorn boy-short again (I think that at this point my hair is shorter than Paul's) made the rest of the day much more pleasant than it might have been, considering the heat and the activity.

I suppose that the_paulr ( Read more... )

When life just gets too-too, and I begin to think that the whole planet is just one big chaotic ball of nothing-that-makes-sense, I can go outside and find ( something like this... )

I mentioned in the first post that we found a few things when we moved the old shed...

( Quite possibly the most interesting and shocking were... )