Spring?

So far, it hasn’t seemed much like Spring. We’ve had snow and cold weather mixed with random warm days. So one day the kids are outside taking off their sweatshirts because they are too warm when running around and the next they are bundled up in their snow gear. 

We were able to take advantage of a recent warm afternoon which fell on a weekend. We finished clearing out the leaves from the gardens which took hours. I love being surrounded by trees... until it’s time to clean up the huge piles of leaves that they dropped everywhere. We worked as a teen and had an assembly line going. I raked and filled buckets, Pequeño & Pudge helped fill buckets, then Pudge and Little Bear brought them down to the woods to empty and then back up for us to use again. We had about six or seven buckets so that we could keep moving from one section to the next without waiting for them to come back up. Papa was taking care of other landscaping things and cleaned out the pool area and koi pond section since we didn’t want the kids playing by those. 

We have a few outdoor projects planned for this year and next year so we are trying to prepare for those. We’re also hoping to be able to open the pool in the next few weeks but we need to wait until the weather gets more consistent.