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!
