Most of our travels have involved bicycles and the details of those rides can be found at our Bicycle Scrapbook.

The Grand-kids left yesterday to spend their Summer vacation in Alaska with their Dad. We took this photo of all of us right before they left.

Just returned from another biking adventure. Check it out on our bike blog.

Update: 05-20-2012. The nest is now empty. No signs of eggs or birds at all.

A pair of Brown Thrush have taken up residence in a Barberry bush in our yard. No sooner than they had the nest built these eggs appeared.

Never before seen as many butterflies as we've had this year.

Planted tomatoes, peppers and eggplant last weekend.

I just painted this sign that hangs above the gate to our back yard. The original sign which had fallen apart spelled out the same words using twigs. I was too lazy to do that again.

Last night on our walk we spotted this Clematis growing at a school.


Our neighbor has this rose planted along a fence we share. Returning home from our walk we noticed it's first bloom this year.



While walking tonight we stopped in at the Dollar General store and picked up these really cheap seeds.

I was weeding/fluffing up a flower bed this morning and found this big fellow/gal and many more like it. Worms are rare in our yard because it is clay but that's slowly changing. Nova had worked over this bed pretty good before planting it years ago.

I don't like them. Never have. Reminded myself again today when I found some left over in the fridge. There are very few foods that I won't eat. I've tried adding many different things to them but still can't tolerate them.

Or is it watching paint dry and grass grow? I needed to mow badly today but the grass was extremely wet. So I paced around waiting for the grass to dry. While waiting I made myself a Ham & Easter Egg salad on toasted potato bread. Nothing like a little dash of pink, blue and green to make your sandwich more appetizing.



As of 1:00pm the grass was still wet but I mowed anyway.



Our mower a Toro Personal Pace Recycler. It's a great mower. This is our second one. Last year one evening our first one broke. Something to do with the blade engaging handle if I recall. It looked to me like it needed a new part so in a panic we went out and bought another one. I figured our grass would be too tall by the time I got the old one fixed. Sometime later in the light of day I realized it was a simple fix on the old one. My Father took and is using it now.
We've had Snapper and Honda mowers in the past but this one works best.

Speaking of watching grass grow... www.watching-grass-grow.com looks like he has a similar mower.

We don't eat a whole lot of meat and rarely eat steak but tonight was the rare occasion and I grilled bacon wrapped filets and potatoes. Both came out great which is rare for me.

We spotted these 2 ducks in the front yard today. Possibly they're nesting here. It's happened before.