Eggs, eggs everywhere

We had a weekend full of beautiful weather, plus this was my first weekend home on Saturday AND Sunday since working at the car dealership always required Saturday work. I was able to plant tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini, but we are still looking for yellow squash plants. Please note that Farmer Homer, the farmer who owns the property behind us, says that we are 2 weeks early on planting. He says the old timer farmers say that you shouldn't plant until the hedge row tree leaves are the size of squirrel ears. How big are squirrel ears? He also said that we also typically get a frost while the lilacs are blooming... we'll see if he is right.

I took advantage of the weather and did some work in the yard, planting a bunch of plants that one of Karen's coworkers gave us. I've also made some progress on the dry creek bed, here are some pictures of the progress:



Evidently, we aren't the only ones who like the lot that we picked in the subdivision. I was taking a hose to the hose bib near our air conditioner when I was buzzed by a duck who came flying out from behind the ac unit. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on, but she built a nest between the ac unit and the house wall. There are 9 eggs in the nest, I guess we will have ducklings this summer. In addition to that nest, we also have a bird's nest on the beam under our deck too. I haven't seen the bird, but there is one egg in the nest. All kinds of wildlife making their home here at our house, those of you who know Karen well enough know that she isn't thrilled with the animals being so close to the house...




And finally, we have had some great sunset views from our deck...