May be we are keeping busy

 Lots of thing are growing and blooming around here!  (children included)

 Philip gave me permission to buy a chainsaw! For real! It's only a tiny little one for clean up...but it is a chainsaw. All the kids came out to see me use it. What fun!!

 And mid May we got our first ever "pets". They were so adorable just a day old and covered in fluff!!

 We moved them into the school room so we could keep an eye on them while they fragile and delicate. Peep peep peep.

 My "new to you" rototiller was misbehaving. So I took many photos and sent many symptom details electronically to the not-so-local head mechanic.

 Evelyn helped me scrape up the last of our mulch to put on some new trees we got.

 Jennifer read aloud to the chicks in the school room. She even did it for a whole hour once!

 Our stick pile for the spruce tree made a temporary trampoline.

 The rototiller has been making progress. When the day got hotter I had to let it cool off between sections as it would overheat. But it slogged through and got the job done!!

 Melanie helped me fill up the pots in the front. The perennial garden under the spruce needed to be relocated. Almost all of those plants needed the shade of the spruce.

Yikes! Time to make a bigger box for the baby chicks!