We’ve had a pretty good run on nice weather recently and it was a beautiful, sunny day again today. We spent a good portion of our time gardening: cleaning out beds from last year and planting some new flowers.
First, we took a trip down the street to the nursery. River’s friend Alex came along for [...]
We have been rearranging the house here a bit. One of the changes is that I now have my own office instead of a pseudo-desk in the corner of the lounge. The morning light from this room is terrific and there is a nice view of the horse pasture and the wheat fields.
I’ve been enjoying [...]
Soon after we returned to England, we found out that our neighbors were moving back to California. This was particularly sad because the kids had developed a close friendship with their daughter. They went to the same school and loved to play together, especially enjoying jumping on the trampoline, swinging, and building fairy houses.
We went [...]
I know it’s only January, but some of the gardeners in this family seem not to have paid much mind to the weather. The nursery down the street has a nice selection of hardy flowers, and we’ve bought pretty much all of them. We spent some time digging a new flower bed this [...]
It has been really windy here. There was a brief hale storm yesterday afternoon. But last night it was blowing so hard that the breeze through the door downstairs was whistling loud enough to wake us up. I managed to silence it by plugging the hole with a piece of tape. [...]
We’ve been feeding the ducklings for the past few weeks. They eat voraciously when we feed them and they’ve gotten quite large now. Their feathers are really developing and they’re losing their yellow color. They’ve learned that there is food coming when we approach and sometimes if we’re a bit late with the goods, they [...]
Yesterday, I managed to get most of the rest of the play structure together. Really all that’s left to do is the roof, but I can’t find the screws that snap the tarp down. I’m thinking I’ll try to find something that will work at the hardware store. The kids have already [...]
The ducklings at the pond nearby hatched! They are so cute!
I’ve been working on putting together the climbing, swinging thing. River has been very helpful.
When I was putting the hardware on for the climbing wall, I realized I’d put them all in the wrong side and knocked them back out. I lifted up the wall and picked up all the pieces, but one [...]
So we’ve been in the UK for a week now. We’re starting to feel a little settled. We still don’t have internet access, ergo my almost non-existent communications. I thought that Verizon was incompentent, but I’d never dealt with BT before. Molly contacted them when she first arrived, over three [...]
