missing seeds.

I saved gazillions of sunflower seeds from last summer in a brown paper bag...

Does anyone remember where I put them?

Yeah, me either.  

cold again.

It's drizzling, foggy and 38 degrees this morning.  

But last week...

Come back Spring!

saturday morning entertainment.

Dirt's here.  

It was a dramatic event. 

(See hands grabbing face below....wish I would have been on the other side.)

That cute little yellow dump truck makes me want one.  

The delivery guy said the same thing to Miles this morning as he did last year...

"You're gonna wanna plant a Tonka truck in that garden so it'll grow to be like mine."

No mister.

His momma wants to plant a Tonka truck in her garden so it'll grow to be like yours.

And if I could, I would plant dirt.  

So I didn't have to pay you to bring me some for my gardens every year.

recovery.

A week of having my rather large dining room look like this left its toll on the cleanliness factor around here.

.

There was (and still is) dust in places I've never cleaned before.  

The evening I returned home from running away last week, I made Britton take the kids for pizza for a couple of hours so I could at least clean their bedrooms and bathroom.  

It was BAD.  

There was still only plywood in the dining room.  

The dirt from about 1/4 of the room...

And this is about 2 swipes with the Swiffer on my kitchen floor...

During my cleaning frenzy I got really hungry and found a stash of food leftover from the guys.  It was kindof funny when later that evening Britton said..."have you seen my mountain dew?"  

I just pointed to this...

I'm such a dork.  

Phase II of flooring will take place in June-ish.  Now that the floors are level, we'll be putting hardwood downstairs instead of the current laminate.  

Hopefully it won't be such a DIRTY process.  It's been hard to recover from all the dirt. 

I've cleaned.....and cleaned again.  

But a few pieces of recently garage-saled and thrifted goodness around the house make it feel springy and nice.  

Even though there aren't baseboards or door jams and there will be lots of unfinished edges until June, I'm thankful for a rock solid, level floor and a few pieces of eye candy to distract me until then.  

And now that the dirt is (mostly) out of my house, I'm having a truck load of it hauled here tomorrow for more raised beds in the garden!!

Maybe I should have just emptied the dustpan and Dyson outside instead of into trash bag after trash bag and made my own dirt pile?

Dirt is my life.  

Goodbye.

Super Moon 2011

Did anyone see the giant, bright moon this weekend?

It was 14% bigger and 30% brighter than a normal full moon. 

I set my alarm for both Saturday evening and Sunday morning to try and get a good picture.  Both times, the clouds prevented me from getting a really good horizon shot....which was when the moon looked ginormous.

So for your science lesson today.... a video on Perigee and Apogee moons and why this Super Moon was so super.

I've run away from home.

This happened Monday morning at my house.  

 

Why, you ask?  Well, from the step at the bottom of the photo to the front door in the back of the photo there was a 2" difference.  

And a great big hump in the middle. 

 

I knew it was coming, but it was horrifying nonetheless.   

When the guys left to go get lumber I swore I heard rodents burrowing in.  Turned out to just be the wind, but I was standing on the counter top just to be safe. 

So to prevent further mental deterioration, I've run away from home for a few days until there's not a dirt floor in my dining room.  

Today was bea-U-tiful and the we enjoyed a nice walk to see one of my son's most favorite things in the whole wide world...

The dining room had a good day too.  

All new joists!!

My soon-to-be-new-floors are brought to you by:

Britton Buss

Will Schwab

& 

Troy Jesseph

Thanks guys!!!  

I'm gonna love my nice, new, level floors!

and so it begins...again.

I've got my worker bees preparing soil...

"Where's your digger-digger, Ella?"

With no seeds or plants in this bed yet, they just can't help but to get in it...

I just let them dig while the diggin' was good because this afternoon I'm adding alpaca poo to the soil....

and that just freaks me out a little.  

No more digging for a few weeks until that stuff becomes one with the earth.  

Ick. 

{But oh-so-good for the garden!}  

I'm sure we can find other dirt for digging!...

or maybe we'll just check "build a sandbox" off the to-do list next!

beans, beans the magical fruit...

This kind of activity does require a few minutes of clean up on my part.

But it is soooooo worth the minutes I gain to accomplish things without munchkins to interfere.

They really are magical.  

a saturday inspired.

I'm feeling inspired by the beauty around the house today.

A trip to grocery store means lovely, fresh fruit out on the counter.

And a trip to a garage sale means a cute new bowl for 25 cents.  

{I just squealed a little on the inside for the upcoming garage sale season.}

And all this beauty makes me feel like being crafty.

I don't know quite what these projects will end up like, but I'm sure having fun messing around with them on this beautiful Saturday afternoon.  

I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy.

{I'm just really so very thankful for all your kind and encouraging words following Mondays post.  You guys are the best!  Everyone has days like that, I just hoped my sharing might make you all bawl bags like me encourage someone who needed it.}

Did you know that the first day of spring is March 20th?  

My yard thinks it's already here.

  

Rose bush.

Red bud.

Mystery bulbs.  Can't remember what these are...

A mum that's coming back!

Pretty sure this a Bradford Pear tree.

So after a good dose of train playing this morning...   

we headed out to get a few more seeds, soil additive and some onions.  Miles couldn't stop talking about carrot seeds the whole time...so we got some of those.  "I looooooove carrots Mommy!"  Hope they grow bigger than the last ones we planted...

I can't wait for the kids to get up from their naps!!