Memory Monday: Squirrels at Havenhill (By Josh)
Prior to our landscaping breaking ground last summer, we had a great new wildlife sighting: hosting a family of squirrels in our backyard. We …
Day at the lake with Grandma
On Thursday we had Brett, Laura, Mason, and Grandma over to our house. We ordered burgers for delivery from Uncle Kelly’s friend …
Memory Mondays – Week 9
Josh and I have been gardening so much these last few months! We’ve been planting flowers, shrubs, trees, and seeds. Yesterday while …
Some berries and a bird
Lately the scrub jays that frequent our yard have been flying over us and scolding us if we don’t leave out peanuts …
Update on the tadpoles
We had kept our tadpoles in the little screen pocket in the pond for weeks until they got big enough to where …
Off to see the horses
While we were at Mom and Dad’s for Mother’s Day, Alyssa and Makayla wanted Josh and I to take …
Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day, Moms!! We are so lucky to have such great mothers! 🙂 I know I’m posting this a couple days …
Memory Mondays – Week 4 (by Josh)
One of our favorite things to do when we feel like relaxing and watching nature is go to one of our local …
Comets, Ryukins, Moors…and Crickets
Yesterday we went to Petsmart again and bought some more creatures to add to our menagerie. Somehow or other, a few of our …
A very rare find!
I guess this is our lucky day! We found a FOUR LEAF CLOVER in our yard as we were gardening today! I …
Operation Tadpole: Success!
We finally succeeded in finding tadpoles to import to our frog pond! I guess we couldn’t officially call it a “frog” …
More planting, first picture of a woodpecker, and seeing a hummingbird’s nest!
Today was spent outside planting, yet again. We had a break for a couple of days this week due to the rain, …
Unwelcome Visitor
I guess it’s getting to be that time of year again…rattlesnake season. Yikes. Josh and I had been out all day again, …
Happy Easter (and enough earthquakes already!!)
Well, we had a great Easter, despite it being the smallest family group we’ve had ever I think, and despite the huge …
signs of life
Here is a photo of a nest that a pair of house finches are building in our fire alarm. So cute! Today …
Busy Days…
We have been busy most days with planting, planting, and more planting…and we’re still not done yet! Today we planted our Avocado …
More planting
On Friday we planted our two plums and one apricot tree in one hole, and our three cherry trees in one …
Sometimes nature sucks.
Since all of our vegetation has been gone in the yard, we haven’t seen too many of our creatures that we usually …
Rainy Days
Yesterday and today have been drizzly and rainy. Today we’re staying indoors all day and making a roast for dinner…perfect weather for …
We bought more vegetables and planted a bit today.
We had to go to Home Depot for some things today, and we ended up buying some veggies to plant, too! We …