Sick

Sunday

I planted red onions last spring and they never go very big so I did not harvest them. They split into several onion starts each. I thinned out the red onions and planted the new starts around the yard.

This is one of the viola plants I picked up at the plant swap a couple weeks ago. It is looking so good.

The boys and have been fighting a cold for a few days. Today has been my worst day. I have felt like someone was taking a cheese grater to the back of my throat. It is almost 9:00 and I will be spending some quality time with that Nyquil bottle in a bit. If you do the stock market, this is a good time to buy stock in Kleenex. We are going to buy another case at Costco next payday at the rate we are going.

Camera is back

I drove over to Sushi Land this morning and picked up my bag and camera. It is hard going with kids when I need to remember both kids and all of the other stuff I might have. We went to the zoo yesturday since the weather was so nice. The boys enjoyed seeing the animals. Liam is really into Leopards right now, so he enjoyed running back and forth watching the leopard as it paced. They also love the insect zoo. The beaver and river otter were active so it was fun to see them do something other than sleep.


David is working on building a second nesting box so the baby chicks have their own place when they go outside. He is using a shelf that I bought almost 20 years ago and have dragged it around with me to different apartments and houses. To show how old it is, I used to keep my records in it back in the day.
I took the boys to the neighborhood school to play while David worked. They were having a neighborhood clean-up day, so we could play basketball, but they enjoyed playing on the structure.

camera at Sushi Land

I left my camera at Sushi Land tonight. I will post photos from today and Saturday in the afternoon after I get the camera back.

Ice Cream Ball

I made chocolate pudding last night, but it did not set. I put it in the ice cream ball this afternoon. It was very yummy. Perfect for a sunny day.

Basketball Fever

We are not one of those families that watches a lot of sports and we have not followed the Blazers much this year. Now that the Blazers are in the Play-offs, we are watching the games. If they go all the way and win the Championship, it would be sad to miss it. I was seven years old last time it happened. I also don't want the boys to miss out.
Christian is showing more interst in basketball. Our neighbors who live behind us have a hoop and he likes to go over there and play.

lastest chick pics

The baby chicks are four and a half weeks old. We have named the darker chick Lightning Bolt since she runs so fast. That is one of the reasons we don't have many picture of her. It is hard to get good photos of such a fast runner. She also blends in to backgrounds and does not have the color contrast of a white and black chick.
Here is a layout showing our little pompador chick as she grows. We are still trying to find the right name for her.

credits:
Template: Challenge template 19 by Chrissy W.
Papers: Bloomin in Spring by Becki Kress & Spring Flling - Elemental Scraps Collab Kit Elements: Spring Fling, Fresh Breeze by Nikki Scott
Chickens: Henriette and Her Friends by Lillyanne Taylor

I was not full of inspiration today so I took a picture of the bookshelf in our bedroom.
It started raining about the same time the boys went to bed. It is supposed to rain for a couple of days. The garden needs a good watering and the boys seem unable to follow my two rules for outside. 1. Stay out of my gardens and 2. Stay out of the street. I am actually glad that we get a couple days off from letting them play outside to rest from dealing with their disobedience and my frustration.
It will be nice to just snuggle up and watch Looney Tunes.