A warm day

Today was warm and sunny after over a week of dreary overcast or rainy days! (don't get me wrong I love the rain and it's a huge blessing. But it was fun to see the sun again.)

So Craig and I went out in the back yard and had fun cleaning up a bit. We acomplished quite a bit.

Craig:
Dug in the dirt
Found the "crunchy flowers" for mama.
Cut flower stems
Squished a slug
Played in a pile of leaves
helped scoop sand back INTO the sand box
Drove Mack EVERYWHERE.

Myself:
-Raked the leaves - there weren't that many but it's good to have them gone
-Trimmed ALL the flowers! - most of them are still alive! Almost all of the annuals that I thought for sure would die off have green sprouts starting at the bases. Some of the hardier ones even had blossoms!
-Pruned one tree
-Pulled everything out of the garden - No more dead tomatoes in the corner!
-Got most of the sand back into the sand box

K.C. (after school)
-Tilled all the dead plants into the garden area. - It's ready for planting again! Not sure when, or what but it's ready!

So now our backyard looks much better and it makes me feel like spring is just around the corner because of all the little green sprouts and growing things everywhere! I'm so excited! We might actually have grass to play on this year. (and mow) which means we'll probably end up needing to get a lawn mower one of these days.