Spring has Sprung!

The weather is finally getting nicer around our parts and we’ve been taking advantage by working hard and playing even harder! A few weeks ago Dellas finished re-doing the front gate on the right side of our house. He’d pretty much torn everything out over there (including all the grass) and, during a few nice days, he’s gotten it almost done!

Another house project we took on as soon as weather turned around was digging out all of the rock the previous owners decided looked good in a planter out front. It might have looked good at one time, when it was maintained, but we’ve been itching to get it back to soil since we moved in! When all was said and done we hauled away at least a yard of rock, and now we need to haul IN some nice top soil and get something planted in the near future.

We’ve also been battling our lawn already. We noticed as soon as the sun started to shine, some green started sprouting and quickly took over our front yard. However, it was obvious it wasn’t “good grass.” So Del dug up a small piece and took it to a place in town who told us we’ve got basically what amounts to pasture grass…fabulous! Now let’s get some horses!! Or not…instead we get to kill the entire green area and start over by over-seeding and fertilizing. Which, as you can see in the above pic, is pretty much our entire front yard at the moment. So I'm anxious for the weather to be consistent enough for us to get this lawn whipped into shape. (So forgive me for not posting pretty pictures of our yard…but we’ve still got a LOT of work to do!!)

As I said earlier, we’ve been working hard but playing even harder…this past weekend we jumped in our pickup, threw the pup in the back and headed out to the desert. Even though it was a bit windy, we had a blast tracking down whistle pigs and watchin’ our dog enjoy complete freedom!

It’s still a bit chilly out for the whistle pigs to be moving around too much, but we found a few and got some shots in. And I must brag…on my very 1^st shot this year I got one! Dellas doesn’t want to count it because the lil guy was alive enough to scurry back into his hole, but really, I know he’s just afraid to let me show him up so he had to think of some excuse!

Well, that's about it for us lately. Dellas has spring break fast approaching but has to get through 2 more wks of work and school then he's free from both for a bit. However, I'm gonna be putting him to work at home on our guest bath, finally!! It's about time the government pays us our tax $$ so we can get back to work stimulating the economy! ;)