Friday, April 26, 2013

OOOPS...

Gee, looks like it's been a month since I last posted.  Now how did that happen?  I swear I wake-up every morning with the best of blogging intentions; and yet nothing gets blogged.  So sad...

So...where were we?  Third week of March...  Hmmmm...drawing a complete blank (which probably explains why I did not blog).  In fact much of April falls into the same category...  I DID go for a number of very pleasant walks with Amanda and a few more with Nikki the Dog or all by my lonesome.  There was not a whole lot going on bird-wise, however, and I have nothing to offer photographically speaking - so lets just set it aside.

No, wait!  One picture.  I inadvertently flushed a large flock of Mallards out Fish Creek one day.

Pissed-off Mallards

Much of April has been unseasonably chilly.  I have been chomping at the bit to get busy in the garden; but snow and cold temperatures ruled that out until very recently.  Last weekend was truly wonderful.  Clear skies and temps into the low 50's.  I put in three eight hour days and got much accomplished.

These ol' beds gotta go!

The first of many trips to Home Depot

New beds constructed

I raked the whole yard...took a full day.  I also salvaged a rhododendron and currant canes from the old planter boxes.  But before relocating them needed to buy, haul, and place stones for a couple of other flower beds.  I was very popular at Home Depot...
 
Lookin' pretty damn nice if I do say so myself...

By the end of the weekend I had made a momentous decision.  I MUST remove a few trees for more sun.  Picked-up the phone and called Bill Lockhart, a tree removal specialist I had previously employed at my house in the Valley.  Two days later...

The first of five to be felled...

Yesterday was very rainy and Bill did not return.  I woke-up this morning expecting that the rain had passed and...

...what the hell is this?!!!

We're under a winter storm warning until 1 PM.  Damn.

In other news, the family is doing as well as we're going to do.  Been baking quite a bit for the elders.  Today is likely to be a baking day as well...

Yesterday was an auntie day.  A medical appointment in the morning followed by a trip to the valley to get her snow tires removed.  I reluctantly agreed to allow her to drive her car.  She tends to get lost these days on any trip other than a direct shot to my mom's.

So....I told her I would follow her.  Didn't want her to try to follow me - wanted her full attention on the road.  I figured if she wandered off course I could always do an auntie round-up somewhere relatively traffic free.

The folly of my plan became evident as soon as she pulled onto Egan Drive.  She was off like a scalded cat.  There was a fair amount of traffic and she continued to put distance between us.  She lost her tail completely at the Vanderbilt light and was last seen making a very rapid advance towards the airport.

I motored out to the tire place without incident.  No auntie.

About twenty minutes later I called mom.  "Have you seen your sister?"

"Nope."

Ten minutes or so later auntie cruised into the parking lot at Les Schwab's.  She had got lost.

I did not bother to chastise her.  We motored over to mom's for oatmeal.

Later gang!

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