spring is here...

Posted on March 24, 2006 at 11:56

So why do we have snow in our weekend forecast?? 

Our seed package arrived a few weeks ago and the children and I are so excited about starting our garden.  I think in April we'll start weeding and getting things ready.  We are in New England, so we have to start things late up here, give the ground time to warm up.  We usually don't start planting until early June, but I think this year we'll try late May.

Our tulips and lillies are halfway up now, the children note their progress almost daily, they are so anxious to see things growing again.  My 11 yr old ds is making notes of birds he sees building nests and one has taken over an empty birdhouse he built with his dad.  I can't remember what kind it was, he knows all about birds and I have learned so much from him.

Our homeschool is going great, we school almost year round, but we take a few weeks off in the summer and then days here and there when the weather is beautiful and we just need to be outside.  I better use these last few (I hope!) cold days to hit the books. 

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Posted by BackyardTreasures on May 12, 2006 at 06:09 - Link

Hi,
I just found your blog this morning. Welcome to our blogging community. I hope you enjoy it here.
My 13 year old daughter loves birds and bird watching too. She's been counting nests around here and we have two robins on nests. We also put up a bluebird nesting box. We thought we got the box up too late and nothing would come to it, but this past week we have been enjoying watching a pair building a nest in it. My daughter is *so* excited. She even took a video of them bringing the nesting materials in.
There's a photo of the bluebird house we built on my blog if you want to take a look. :-)

~~Anne