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Spring Has Sprung

The weather has been so gorgeous around here lately! I can remember years where we just seemed to turn from winter to summer with no indication of spring inbetween. This year has been a blessing. We've had the windows open and put up with the very high pollen counts because it's been so beautiful, nice gentle breezes and sunny days. TB ordered some azaleas and some flowers and bushes so that we could begin making our front yard look pretty. We waited and waited for the plants to grow enough to be shipped and, finally, they arrived in the mail.

Neither one of us has a particularly green thumb but the company we ordered the flowers from sent a layout to help us. The plants were labelled with letters of the alphabet (as well as their real names) and we had a "map" of sorts to show us where to plant the flowers and bushes for the best effect.

Kristin was our volunteer heavy duty laborer. Even though TB had already rototilled the ground, there were so many rocks and roots under the earth! TB's main job was to jump on the shovel. Kristin would then use her little shovel to dig the dirt out and plant the flower, root or bush.

Sometimes she had to do her own chopping. The tree we had taken down had some long deep roots! We were very surprised that there didn't seem to be any worms!

She did find one that seemed to be encased in a block of dirt and roots. She's not particularly squeamish and wanted to set it free. Then Heidi came out and wanted to see.

Here is another daughter not afraid to handle slimy things.

I think I hear TB outside with the mulch. I had a job too--taking pictures. So I'm going out again with my camera!

Posted by Cassie at April 17, 2006 12:01 PM | TrackBack