lilacs

What more is there to say?  Except I would like for them to bloom all spring and summer.  They're so fleeting and lovely.  I want to 'drink them in', as Anne of Green Gables would say. 

weekend review

So I had hopes of blogging on Monday, and now here's it's the middle of the week already!  Wow.

I look around outside and am amazed.   When does it happen?  I'm outside every day, trying to watch the changes.  I walk around the yard and exclaim 'whoa!  when did THIS come up?  Or this...and when did this bloom?' 

This spring has been unbelievably gorgeous.  So many warm days.  Lilacs and tulips blooming in April!  Unreal.

I got my clothesline up and love it.  I can't resist smelling all the clothes and sheets as I take them off the line.  All we need to do is have a stake in the ground to prop up the line in the middle.  I wish I had put up my line a looong time ago, knowing that.  But now it's up and I intend to use it lots.  My neighbor with the pristine lawn (while mine is all organic--aka has weeds) will be thrilled.

We also did more puttering around the yard, just soaking in being outside.  I went to a Vinyasa yoga class (outside!) and got a couple runs in.  Yesterday Lils and I planted some baby trees. 

I started digging up some of the yard at 7:30 on Sunday night, because I got inspired about a project we want to do this summer.  Rob didn't 'dig' that too much.  Ha.  I hope he doesn't mind TOO much the holes in the ground till we get it done. 

outside awesomeness...and more pillows

Happy First Day of Spring!  We played out on the porch--lots--this week.

I'm so glad we re-did this porch last fall, it is soooo nice to be out here now.

So I sewed more pillow covers for the couch pillows.  I used only fabric I had in my stash, so I didn't have to buy anything but 3 zippers.  Now it's a hodge podge of fabrics, but a cozy hodge podge I think!  I definitely prefer this to the previous look.

Scenes from our nature shelf-the springtime birdies and eggs and butterflies are out! 

the winds of change

...can you feel it?  It's coming.  I'm feeling it this week.

The world is waking up, though it still looks mostly dead. 

But it's not.

We're using this warm weather inspiration to work in the garden.  I took up the bricks that I had put all the way to the edges between these 2 raised beds and am using them as a walkway on the ends here.  We'll be more than doubling our garden this year (yeah!) and I'll use that space to plant carrots or similar.

So there will be lots of grass diggin' up, lots of raised bed building, and lots of planting coming up here.

'Grandma and Grandpa in the Garden'

taken last May during the building of these 2 raised beds.  2 more to come!