New porch lights

We did hang these new porch lights. 

So much better than these yellow ones. 

Now if it will just not rain on Saturday. 

Ps. We ordered new windows this week. We will get them in two or three weeks and start replacing them one or two at a time. Hooray for easy to clean windows and lower humidity inside because they don’t leak!! 

Porch - slow going

We haven’t really done much because it has rained or we have had plans the last two

Saturdays. Until the porch roof is fixed we can finish the rest of the porch. Oh well. It is getting lots of use.  And we did cut down the big Camilla that was in the way of traffic and ugly. We left the little ones at it’s base and hope to shape them into something better.  You can see where we cleaned out the floor beds and sort of made an estimated start of a path (we will get stepping stones eventually). And we moved the fire pit! Which just flows so much better now and is out of the way from the boys running down the hill. 

I’m loving my grill right off the porch. It is just turned around now so I don’t have to walk out th door of the porch and in the yard. I don’t even need shoes now. And the old

Doorway is the perfect size for the grill pad. Otherwise that piece of concrete looks a bit out of place. 

In other news, the weather has been gorgeous on days not named Saturday. 

And we have spent plenty of time outside walking around the zoo and park. 

And some trails nearby. 

And climbing trees. 

Yay for spring and 50-60 degree weather! It is my favorite. 

Planter boxes and mud

Today we bought tomatoes and peppers for half the boxes. They are color coded with the popsicle sticks. Yellow for cherry tomatoes, red for tomatoes, green for peppers.  The other halves have some garlic that had sprouted over the winter (so why not try to grow it) and some wildflowers (a mix, black eyed Susans, and zinnias). The boys and I planted those last week. Their endurance in gardening is about as much as filling the boxes with dirt. They are enthusiastic, but lacking in endurance. They have to start somewhere. 

We spend most of all day outside. The weather recently has been amazing. I should take them to a park or the zoo or the trails, but they have so much fun running around in the yard and digging in the dirt. 

They are usually covered in dirt by the end of the day and they leave muddy footprints all over the house. Oh well. It is good for their immune systems. 

But this is why the mudroom is the first big project on the list. Maybe next summer... Maybe. This year it is reroof the porch and replace the windows.