Spring is Coming

The weather is getting nicer and nicer here. Friday made it into the seventies and with the sun staying up later we were able to have some good outdoor time after I got home from work.

One of Kelly's friends out here put together a fun outdoor "gardening" project to do with little ones. It involved dirt and Audrey was eager to dig in.

The idea is fairly simple: fill some baseball card holders (or maybe film holders? we don't know) with planting soil, drop a few seeds in each pouch, moisten, hang in your window with suction cups, cross your finger and hope they sprout. Filling nine pouches with dirt entertained her for about 15 minutes and pouring the remainder of dirt on her head entertained her for another 5.

Audrey could handle the one row of pea seeds, but the remainder were a little too small for her to do on her own. Kelly finished up with some cherry tomatoes, rainbow heirloom tomatoes, squash, and morning glories. We are probably much too late to start these by seed here and we have no idea if we are even going to attempt to transplant them, but we still had fun.

The rest of the evening was spent playing with the leaves that keeps appearing in the corner of our patio every time the wind kicks up a bit. I raked them into a big pile just to be sure we didn't get surprised by anything. The ever growing list of creatures we have been warned about now includes wasps, hornets, black widows, brown recluse spiders, and copperheads. On second thought...maybe we should just stay inside for the rest of the summer.