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April 19, 2006

Sorry for the little break in blogging. The photo gallery section was not working and I don't think it's any fun to blog without photos.

So, what have we been up to here: enjoying spring. Last week was beautiful. Easter weekend and this week have been windier and a little rainy. The rest of the week is supposed to be beautiful again.

My major project last week was making a flower bed next to our house. A small bed existed and I removed the wood border, dug up the grass next to it, composted and mulched the soil and added a brick border. Unfortunately nothing is planted in the new bed right now. That will have to wait till May when I get my flowers from Hedgehog Hill. This fall I plan to dig up all the bulbs and plant them throughout the whole bed.

These are the before (last year when we bought the house) and after (this spring) photos.

This Saturday we plan to get a truckbed load of composted manure (from a friend's horse stables) and put that into our front flower beds and then mulch that too. It looks pretty bad right now. I haven't cleaned it up yet this spring.

Let's see other than gardening we've been busy going to Art in the Afternoons on Tuesday, going to open gym on Monday mornings & Celine's dance class on Monday afternnoons. The kids and I made kites last week and we took them out yesterday and promptly got them all tangled together! This week was also spring clean up in our city, where the city picks up any trash you leave at the curb (whatever's left after your neighbors pick through it - I'm totally serious) Speaking of picking through trash I felt like a true Mainer today when the kids and I picked bricks from a demolition site. I'm looking for more bricks for garden borders. Mainers are thrifty and do this kind of thing all the time - leave things at and pick up things from the curb, root through demolition sites for usable building materials etc... Anyway, back to spring cleaning... this weekend we cleaned out & organized our garage -that feels good.

That's about it for now. Tomorrow Celine has a playdate with her best friend who is in public school and on school break right now. Damien and I are going out for lunch on Thursday and we're having a potluck at our house Friday night.

Wishing you all a lovely spring week!