April Showers...

It is an old saying, but oh so true. April showers bring May flowers. We have had snow and rain and April first it was horrid! Everyone celebrated getting their snow tires off by sliding all over the place!!! In between the icky stuff we have had some fairly nice days. Which were very handy for getting stuff done. Another saying is that a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are some pictures with more than a few words to explain them!!!

First: What do you see here? Jon said that it looked like the alien material off of the modern War of the Worlds movie.

Next is the water problem out our back door. When it rains we get water, lots of water. These photos are after much of it has dried. The first is from inside the house and the second is from outside the house. Kinda funny, when we lived in Tillamook our house NEVER flooded. Here we get water inside whenever it rains or we get snow.

We finally got started on taking out the sidewalk (that is what the green spray painted line is for, we are taking it out in that area first and then the rest of it in a large section. Steve will repave it when it gets warmer. (now it slopes toward the house).

My garden was also worked on. OK, it will be a garden someday. The stairway to nowhere was moved 3 times. I had it near one of the length wise boards on the fence and Moses managed to use the stairs and the board to help him over the fence to the other side! This area is more work for him. He has to kind of go around and then over and he has already gotten stuck between the slats when he did it! (It was very funny as he was trying to be tough and was growling at a cat in the other yard while he was stuck.) The walk way thing will be where the bridge from Music Man will go and the green fencing stuff is going to be a water feature of some sort. WE have also marked off the veggie garden area and planted a western red cedar and put in the silver posts (really an old shower curtain rod) for my sweet peas.

Note, the stairs are the ones I dropped on my foot and left me a very purpley bruise that has merged into greens and yellows! Nice and Eastery, which brings us to the lovely flower that Jon made me for Easter. It is HUGE and heavy and, as Jon said, will never need pulled. It is supposed to be a dandelion, as they are one of my favorite flowers and not one of Steve's. (the smaller yellow one I bought in Tillamook).

More eclectic reading for April. Garden books, Mercedes Lackey, ect. And that brings us up to date with notes in a minor key!!!