Just In Case You Thought I Was Dead, I'm Not!!

My dear friend and relative, Rhonda, recently referred to herself as a slacker blogger. Well, I think I get the slacker blogger of the month award! I won’t try to make excuses. I’ll just start “talking”, and I promise (Rachel) I won’t write a book. I’ll just try to write more soon!!

Spring has sprung!! It’s so wonderful!!! I’ve done a bit of digging around in the flowerbeds and I’m starting to think about getting the garden ready to plant. We have some friends who have horses and, apparently, unlimited, um… fertilizer. So, I’m hoping to avail myself of a truck-load of that! We have four new trees sitting in the yard (still in their buckets) that we hope to plant soon. We want to start working toward some shade for our very-hot-in-the-afternoon-and-evening patio. I bought two Colorado Blue Spruce, a Columnar Poplar, and a Maple. I’m thinking of one or two more. If you have any brainy ideas for how to arrange a “grove” of a variety of trees, let me know.

This past weekend we went to Kenora on Friday afternoon and came home Sat. night. We stayed with my dear friend Debby. Supper was around the camp-fire in the back yard and Debby entertained myself and her sister Joann with her interesting shenanigans. (You’ll have to ask her!) I hadn’t laughed so hard in months!

At Debby’s our little family was all snugly fitted into Debby’s little guest room. Caleb decided to wake up before 5:00 and loudly call me, which woke up Josiah. Yay. Josiah never went back to sleep. Caleb did, but then Logan woke up and his talking woke up Caleb again. All this time I was trying hard to get everyone to BE QUIET and get a few more winks. Keith finally just got up and took Josiah out to the living room. By 6:30 it was evident no one was going to get any more sleep and I was feeling badly for the others in the house who were trying to sleep as well. Then inspiration hit! I said to Keith, “Let’s throw the kids in the van and go to Tim Horton’s!” So that’s what we did, and it was well worth it. I don’t know if coffee and donuts ever tasted better!

By 8:00 we had all had breakfast, Josiah was ready to go back to bed, and Debby, Joann and I headed out garage-saleing. What fun. We all found some great stuff. The funniest part was that by the time we came back, I was pinned in the back seat of the car under a great big shelf. Why didn’t we take the van???

Keith then took Caleb and Logan and headed for the logging expo which was the reason for our trip. (Well, Keith’s reason, anyway. I just wanted to buy trees!) We ladies and Josiah went tree shopping and had a lovely lunch at Casey’s to celebrate Joann’s birthday. It was a really fun time and we made lots of good memories!

One more quick thing… Since we got back from Montana, the boys have been in swimming lessons two days a week. That’s one of the reasons why blogging has fallen farther down my list. That, combined with a new Wed. morning Bible study, has made life really crazy right now!!! But, there are only two more swimming lessons left and then we’ll be able to think about other things a little more! It has been worth it though because Caleb and Logan are both doing great in swimming. It’s so fun to see them learn! Caleb already passed one level this session and is working on the next one. I’ve been taking Josiah to aqua-tots (I go in the water with him), so I don’t have much time to watch Caleb and Logan swim. So Thursday I’m not going in the pool so I can just watch them and see what all they’re doing.

That’s all for now. My hubby has already headed for bed, so I need to go join him! :-)