Happy Earth Day, everybody! On Saturday we took some time with friends to enjoy Cunningham Falls, a beautiful state park fairly close to home. The half-mile gravel trail to the falls is very easy and leisurely, but it's the rock-hopping and little pools of minnows in the rocky stream above the falls that you don't want to miss. Johnnie walked a lot of the gravel trail by herself, then rode happily in the Ergo on her dad's back as he scrambled over the ancient stones. My favorite thing: stretching out and sunning on a huge warm rock like a walrus. Sometimes Maryland isn't such a drag after all.
A cheesy one for the scrapbook. (See Johnnie there in the back?)
Johnnie, our future park ranger, spent the whole day smiling, all tucked in like a little pappoose. I don't think she could've had a better day.
After a great day out in nature, we returned home to discover that some of the seeds I planted in the garden last Sunday have sprouted already. These are dwarf blue kale sprouts. We also have a whole thick row of lettuce sprouting and some broccoli and carrot shoots coming up too.
I'm going to go ahead and call this year's Earth Day a smashing success here at Thirtyeight20. What did you do this weekend?
We officially opened the spring house (which doubles as our outdoor living room) and hauled out the patio furniture-- one of our longstanding rites of spring. We're a month behind our usual schedule, but we'll be planting pansies in the windowboxes this week and waiting for the redbud to burst into full bloom.
ReplyDeleteOur redbuds around here have already been blooming for a week or two -- a favorite time of year.
DeleteWe planned out what plants, flowers, and shrubs to plant around our house. Jas ripped the old stuff out last fall, but we ran out of time to get everything done before winter. The half ton pile of river rock that we're using around the house instead of mulch (mulch is not a good thing up against your house) has been in our driveway since fall so the fact that we're one step closer in getting it out of there is exciting :) The excavator came to look at where we want our storage shed placed and will be coming tomorrow to make the slab for that as well as grade down some of our yard as we have some sloping/drainage issues. Once we have our shed, we can get our garage organized. Jas also brought out our firepit. Today, we're getting an estimate on windows. We were just about to have a fence installed when we realized windows would be a better investment for resale. So things didn't actually get accomplished, but they're getting close!
ReplyDeleteHooray for steps in the right direction, at least! And with a baby in the house, nonetheless. Way to go!
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