Gardening Season

It's finally here. The time of the year I come out of hibernation and head outside. It's so exciting to inspect the property in early Spring and see what is popping up from the ground, but it's even better when you get to start to put new things into the ground. Memorial Day weekend was spent putting the garden in (minus some time spent yardsaling).

I've been starting my veg from seed the last few years. The first couple of times I ended up with pathetic spindly seedlings with a high casualty rate, but this year almost all of the seedlings were healthy. Although that sounds like great news I was not prepared for such a high survival rate, and being the ever frugal Sprague I could not let them go to waste. Eric came to my rescue making temporary satellite gardens to accommodate the veg overflow.
When the project was completed I consulted the sage (Hubby) and asked him if the updated garden looked Country Chic or White Trash. He said "If we had painted all the tires white it would have looked Country Chic, but we didn't..." 'Nuf said.

We have also been working on the inside of the house. We moved Corie into my sewing room, my sewing room into Zak's room and Zak into Corie's room. Which meant we had to repaint all three rooms. Corie and Zakary got to share a room, so for three weeks Eric and I fell asleep to "Zak, turn that music off and stop singing", "That's mine. Don't touch it", "Turn the light off", "MOM!!! Corie/Zak is ___ (fill in the blank)" . It was alternately funny and annoying depending on how tired we were. We have completed the painting and everyone is in their new room. The colors came out great, but I'm not posting pictures until we get the fine tuning done... That translats into as soon as they clean their rooms :)

Our next indoor project is the living room which will start with a new color for the walls. We have had paint chips taped to our walls for over two months and have finally made a decision... Behr Cloudless is the winner. We liked the blue on the front of our anniversary card and had it color-matched :)

We did take a weekend off to go visiting in New York. We hiked up Vroman's Nose and had a picnic, ate lots of good food (Pat is an excellent cook!!!), did some shopping in Albany, and best of all Eric and I got to relax. Even though it was downright cold in the pond Corie jumped in for a brief swim.

And a sure sign that warm weather is here... Zakary gets shaved.