Friday, April 19, 2024

Bottle Rocket

One of Isaac's birthday gifts from several years ago continues to be fun for both

him and the grandkids,  They spent the day with us today and since the weather

was "milder", it was a good day to set it off.


 




You can actually see the bottle launching in the following photo!




Retrieving the bottle and bringing it back for another launch!


Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Follow Up

I was right.  Yesterday morning we woke up to a lot of wind, and the blossoms were

flying through the air like a snow shower!


Last night we had rain and thunderstorms and this is what our sidewalk looked like this morning.



Isaac and Joshua finished up the majority of the garage work - at least enough to park

the truck back inside.  They still have a metal shelf to paint, but we need to

get another gallon before that can be finished.


 





Sunday, April 14, 2024

Good Green/Bad Green

The good green first:

Everything is so lovely outside!  Trees are budding out and the grass is green!

I have no idea what kind of tree this is, but it smells heavenly and is loaded with

white blossoms.  We are supposed to get some strong winds this week which will

probably blow the blossoms to smithereens!


 


The grass is greening up everywhere, although we will need to fill in some bare

spots with grass seed.




We also have several Fairy Rings in the yard, which I learned about from Google.

"Abnormal turf growth where there are high levels of organic matter."

Very odd.  The three that we have are only in the front yard.






Now, for the bad green:

A previous owner must have gotten a really great deal on an obnoxious color of green paint.

The entire garage interior was painted with it, as well as several walls in the laundry room.

The boys have started on the much needed paint job and it looks so much better!






It looks so much better with a new coat of paint!  Great job, boys!





I think they will be able to finish the second coat tomorrow morning.



More life skills learned!  Great job, young men!!!

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

17!

Isaac is 17 today!  How can this be?

We celebrated him a good part of the day and ending up watching a movie

of his choice:

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom





 


HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ISAAC!

WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

New Stove!

Part of being an adult is enjoying new appliances.

I loved getting our new stove installed today.