Lunar Poppy

     Doesn't our soil resemble moon dirt?

Apple Trees

  It feels so good to see the apple trees in bloom. This time last year the blossoms had all fallen off after being in a deep freeze for over a week. We took a drive yesterday down some back roads to see all the blooms. The next door neighbor's trees are in full blossom, while ours are just barely opening up. There were no pears last year, either, but he told me we could some pick from his tree. He has a huge one up in the woods behind our house, which we found while wandering around. I hope I can find it again.

Best Kid Ever

Country Mice Visit the Big City

 We've been to Elmira three times in the past four days. Today we took Grandma and Carol to lunch.  I've had a stomach ache for a few days, so I told W to eat a lot at the buffet to get our money's worth. Poor kid, he always does what he's told. He ate himself sick- I stopped counting after 3 plates and 4 frozen drinks.

Addison, NY-Petey's Hometown

Grandma calls this a Baby plant(she just makes up names)

Judas Tree( another name from Grandma)

 Carol's Azalea--I always thought these were only in the South

Carol's Bleeding Heart- I dug up several of those blue plants

I'm always drawn to the windows of this barn.

Name That Blob

 I was raking wet leaves out of the ditch that runs alongside the driveway when I found dozens of these blobs. Most were larger than my hand. I think they're black salamander eggs. I read that the mating adults return to the place where they hatched, so I probably should not try to hatch these on a shelf in the laundry room...They must not have a high survival rate, either, or else there will soon be thousands of them crawling around the yard. I'm still trying to figure out how something no bigger than my finger can expel a hand size egg-sac from her body.

Finally Down

He finally got the branch down. It's been dangling for many months--too high for his ladder. Rusty was not trying to help, he just thought Dad didn't deserve such a cool stick.

Perfect Weather

Things I Did Today:
1. Went barefoot!!
2. Opened all the windows
3. Felt thankful I didn't have to do math problems with someone(although the day isn't over)
4. Wondered why it took me over two hours to paint the inside trim of 5 windows
5. Listened to idiot news channels while painting
6. Took Rusty for a long walk
7. Forgot what Mother said about long walks/hungry bears
8. Reminded someone, again, to please not feed the dog chicken any more.
9. Hauled all the winter coats to the basement, hopefully to remain there at least for 6 more months.