Spring...Spring...Spring.  Here's more pictures of scenes around the house.  My roses started blooming last week along with my Iris's.  All my Azalea bushes have finished except this one and it's always the last to bloom.  It's hard for me  to remember but all those flowering shrubs I've recently posted pictures of we planted as tiny 1 or 2 gallon plants.  It's amazing how rewarding those inexpensive investments have been and continue to be year after year.

I've been hanging out laundry since spring-time weather returned.  I can get 4 loads or so on my nifty umbrella clothes line.  I have been even more motivated to hang out instead of  dry inside since my dryer seems to be taking longer and longer to get those towels and jeans dry.  And I keep reading that the dryer is one of a household's biggest energy drainers.  I want lower electric bills!

I got the older Mille Fleur chickens nesting boxes and coop floor all cleaned out today and replaced with fresh hay and pine shavings.  They will be happy I'll bet.  We start tomorrow building the new chicken coops and yards for the chicks.  The Ameraucana chicks are now almost 3 and 4 weeks old and the Rhode Island Red and White and New Hampshire Red chicks are about 21/2 weeks old.  I just can't get over how fast they grow.  And taking care of a bunch of chicks is quite a job I've found out!  I'm so ready for them to be in their own coops!

I've gotten a lot done around here this week and it feels good!  The house is clean and the laundry done (all but the folding and putting up).  And I got all the flower beds weeded and the shrubs trimmed.  Plus I hosed off the front porch along with the shutters all along the front of the house and the carport and back patio.  I changed the water in my little water fountain by the back door and tidied everything up outside.  OH!  I almost forgot that I mowed the entire place this week too!  I have to brag on my hubby too.  We've had an old eyesore of a building that's needed tearing down for a few years and he tackled that last week. 

More later...It's date night.

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April 11, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Kitty

Your flowers are gougeous! I have been hanging out clothes too, I love the breezy weather. I would love to say that my house is ALL clean, but alas dont do the white glove test anywhere, lol.........Have a great weekend to go with your great week........Kitty

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April 12, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by jennickless

I have been feeling like you! I have been working around my house too. It feels so good! I do not have any color to report. Everything has been brown, but we had rain last night and the parts I raked are turning green already.
Thank you for sharing your pictures! How is that puppy doing?
Take care,

Jennifer

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