Spring in the air!
The weather has been just beautiful lately. Sean and I (okay, mostly Sean) have been working outside, making preparations for our big planting plans. We'll have a greenhouse, a large garden, and plenty of wildflower patches, we're also going to put down some sod in our backyard. It's hard to imagine that it isn't really time to put some seeds in the ground. Not here anyway. It has been known to freeze even in June...so we must wait. But it's hard...
I love that I can send the girls outside to play now. And when we have a yard it will be even better! Why nobody has bothered to plant some grass in the backyard of this house in the past 30 years is beyond me. Guess they preferred mowing down weeds. I can't wait to have some grass out back for the girls to roll around in. That is something we missed when we were missionaries - there was never any grass you could just sit in or take a nap on - it either didn't exist or it was so full of creatures that you didn't dare! The first thing our girls did when we got home in September was to roll around in their grandparents' yards! It was a pleasure they'd never experienced.
C'mon summer! I'm so excited to work in our yard and garden, to harvest tasty treats from our own land, to eat dinners outside, to go camping in the mountains, to walk the Farmer's Market on Saturday mornings, to take the girls swimming, to wear my flip-flops again!
It'll be a few months yet. We're headed into the super-windy season here in the San Luis Valley...and it usually snows on Sean's birthday, April 22. And that's fine. What I'm really enjoying is the changing seasons. We didn't see much of that on the equator. Any change in climate we got was due to a change in altitude!
I love that I can send the girls outside to play now. And when we have a yard it will be even better! Why nobody has bothered to plant some grass in the backyard of this house in the past 30 years is beyond me. Guess they preferred mowing down weeds. I can't wait to have some grass out back for the girls to roll around in. That is something we missed when we were missionaries - there was never any grass you could just sit in or take a nap on - it either didn't exist or it was so full of creatures that you didn't dare! The first thing our girls did when we got home in September was to roll around in their grandparents' yards! It was a pleasure they'd never experienced.
C'mon summer! I'm so excited to work in our yard and garden, to harvest tasty treats from our own land, to eat dinners outside, to go camping in the mountains, to walk the Farmer's Market on Saturday mornings, to take the girls swimming, to wear my flip-flops again!
It'll be a few months yet. We're headed into the super-windy season here in the San Luis Valley...and it usually snows on Sean's birthday, April 22. And that's fine. What I'm really enjoying is the changing seasons. We didn't see much of that on the equator. Any change in climate we got was due to a change in altitude!
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