Sppprrriiiinnnngggg!

Today is the official start of spring, and what a beautiful day. After gymnastics class, Kaleigh and I went to the park with her friend Cecelia, and her mom JoAnn. The girls had a great time running around the empty park (too bad all the other kids were in school).

These pictures are from the weekend, when it was also warm. Here is Kaleigh, putting soil in the seed trays. We have been getting a lot of seeds and plants through the mail, and I saved seeds last year, so we are set! In the seed trays, we planted one whole flat of open-pollinated heirloom tomatoes, another flat of rhubarb and asparagus, and the third flat was mixed herbs and veggies. I have room for another flat, but we haven't gotten back to putting dirt in the last seed tray. I know, it's getting late to even bother starting seeds, but last year I did it way too early, and the record cold March didn't help.



Here is Don, sharpening his chainsaw. He has made really good progress on the giant American elm in our neighbor's driveway. Half of it was small enough that he could shove it into our yard, and the other half might be small enough to shove as I type this. Progress! The other picture is me, cutting up mulberry sprouts to fit into the kindling bucket. They should be nice and dry by next winter. I'm attempting to keep up with all the brush, keeping stuff like this on our property to be used for something, rather than putting it out in a brush pile for the city to ignore.

We spent yesterday cleaning out the play room and the catch-all closet. We got rid of a lot of stuff! We found a VCR! What?! We haven't had a tv in a decade! It's nice to be rid of all that useless and unneeded crap. Of course, it's still sitting around, waiting to be picked up by excited freecyclers.