Rototilling the garden is a bit accomplishment every year, so please admire. The challenges of a limping a very old rototiller through another season were overcome. Thanks Dad! :)
Sweeping...I guess, or playing a game, more likely.
Planning the plumbing out
Nathan and Melanie made a net out of an old telescoping pole, some fabric, pail leftovers and other odds and ends. It works very well, and is great for skimming off the goop!
Our very odd cement pad was removed after many hours of labour. Here Nathan is almost finished with it, hauling in some dirt...the last step is putting seed on it and watering it.
My project was doing fiberglass repair. Apparently all my hard work looks like a steak. Good thing it'll be covered in stones eventually.
My rhubarb that was moved is coming up nicely! Yum!
Finally, very late, there is some colour coming up in the gardens. A very slow start!
We had fun with an extension pack for Catan. Nice to do on a rainy day!
Our chickens got to move into their second fence. The rooster was making his "ladies check out this great food!" cluck for 10 minutes steady. It was the happiest day of the year for them. Too bad they picked it bare in less than a week!
Daniel has been outfitting his bear. Big (heavy) backpack, hat...
Nice time of year to use the sandbox!
Nathan doing some trouble shooting for engine maintenance and repair. Great to have a resource a phone or text away!
Checking out what Mom is working on.
Planting is almost finished. Looks so bare and empty. To the plants really need that much space between them? (I packed them a bit closer, but NOW it looks like the packages were right, and they really do grow big ;)
Melanie is even better than me at getting the kids to plant the seeds in the garden.
Evelyn herding our free range chicken back to her zone.
I was sure she'd only last a few weeks before being picked up by the abundant predators here. But so far, even with a night in the wild (we couldn't find her one night to tuck her in) she is still clucking around and enjoying lots more space than her feather pecking bully "friends". I hope they are jealous. Or sorry. But I doubt it.
Evelyn made a garden too. Very lovely!
Finally my ornamental pear tree flowered! It spent two springs with virtually no flower buds...so early this spring I sprayed it with some smelly stuff and it seems to have made a big difference!
Monkeys.
Melanie saved a bunch of grass that Nathan mowed so that she could use it for her strawberry garden (in place of straw...which I wasn't gonna buy)
Thirsty chickens. Yeah, they have bare spots...they are not pretty. That's what happens when you are mean to each other! (I'm hoping for a life lesson here...)
Finally got our pool cover to stretch out...almost couldn't roll it back in again. :o Hopefully we can get the motor fixed!
Clearing away the extra cement pad to get rid of the hot tub heater filter and plumbing. This way the stuff can be further from the pool too, as it really shouldn't be that close to the water!
