dress up

Last week I took Natale to the second hand store to help pick out some things for our new dress up box. We had a fun time shopping together. 

Natale's free time activity of choice is dress up while Tessa prefers the sandbox.

trashy reward

I don't want this to to be a place where procrastination is encouraged, however I have to

admit that there are times when waiting until trash morning to haul the bucket out to the street is

rewarded in the form of visual stimulation on the return trip.

s like snake

Tessa had a good S Week at Grandma School.

She headed home this afternoon to do more S things with Mommy.

We hauled sand up from the wash to make a sandbox.

lettuce be thankful

We lost a lot of plants during the recent unusually cold weather but I am very thankful that my lettuce, which has been producing quite nicely, survived the ordeal.

I'm looking forward, now that the freezing temps appear to have left us, to planting my spring garden. Jay purchased some new (used) containers and I'm working at filling them with my nice rich compost soil. Then I'm going to let my assistant gardeners each have a container that is their own little garden. 

patterns

mr potato head

I remember there were times when I was teaching in public school when I had a first grader drawing potato people at the beginning of the school year. Tessa's drawing, with the great big grin, made me smile.  

Natale's drawings are very detailed, almost always including a crown, wavy hair, eyelashes and big lips, typically wearing high heals, and, in this case, fingernail polish.

cosmos

I wanted to post a picture of the

Cosmos

flowers that I planted.

They had been growing

so nicely 

in my greenhouse.

And then the cold weather hit.
Maybe this is more appropriate after all.