We headed up to Seattle today (and met up with my our friend, Christie) to see the boys’ third cousin pitch for the Texas Rangers. It also happened to be Little League Day so the kids got to go on the field and see the players up close and personal while they warmed up before the game.
It’s a little early for berry picking around here, but we had a hot spell earlier this month followed by a lot of rain which I think sped things up a bit. We picked a LOT of strawberries and now it’s strawberries for breakfast, lunch and dinner around here. 🙂
I have taken on a volunteer role at Liam’s new middle school (MIDDLE SCHOOL!!!!) and today was the day I got trained how to do it…in the rain. My job (with my friend Lynn) is to change the lettering on the reader board every other week or so. Her job is to get the letters ready and my job is to climb up on the ladder and put them on the board. I don’t imagine this is going to be a terribly horrible job, but I do hope that the majority of the times we do this that it’s not raining like it was today.
The boys’ school had their annual volunteer appreciation day today. In the past it has been a lunch, but this year they decided to have a breakfast which turned out to be a great idea…I am not one to turn down a pastry. 🙂
Colm really, really has a hard time getting around to writing thank you cards. His birthday party was about a month ago though and I just could not let it go another day. He FINALLY got them done…thank goodness!
We had our yard re-landscaped last year after most of the plants the original landscaper had planted died after we realized they had planted them in clay and all of the plants were just sitting in puddles of water. The re-landscaper we hired did a good job, but really didn’t fill in the beds with as many flowers as we would have liked.
I started working on solving that problem on Monday. I bought a ton of new plants, some weed barrier stuff and some mulch. I got started and it looks great, but I have a lot more work to do and the weather has been cold and wet ever since. I have all of the plants/flowers in their pots waiting to be planted and bags of mulch stacked up and ready to go. Now I just need some decent weather.
Colm got his hair cut today and came out looking like this:
He is in LOVE with his “mohawk”. He was super impressed that the hairdresser had put gel in his hair. He obsessed about it all day…talking about it, touching it ever so gently to make sure it was still in place…we’ll see what happens in the morning. I am not going to start devoting time in the morning to make sure Colm’s hair is gelled just right. 🙂
I have the absolute best view from my kitchen window.
This past week, the farmer who lives across the street has been moving his animals down into the lower fields which are directly across from our house. Some days it’s just the horses, sometimes it’s the sheep and the alpacas and the goats and sometimes all of them together.
We’ve lived here long enough that I can almost feel when there’s supposed to be a rainbow. The right amount of post-rain moisture in the air + sunshine = there’s gotta be a rainbow around here somewhere.