Dawn's Blog » daffodils http://lakebreeze.org/blog3 Family stuff, holidays, knitting Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:13:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Spring in my yard! http://lakebreeze.org/blog3/2012/03/11/spring-in-my-yard/ http://lakebreeze.org/blog3/2012/03/11/spring-in-my-yard/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:26:07 +0000 Dawn http://lakebreeze.org/blog3/?p=737 Continue reading →]]> Daffodil sprouts

Daffodil sprouts

Emily and I cleaned out leaves from the main flower garden today. It was time to uncover the daffodil and tulip sprouts that were already growing under the leaves. At 1pm today, it was 65 degrees. It felt so nice! The flower garden looks better, too. I can’t wait until the flowers bloom!

Cardinal in the tree

Cardinal in the tree

When I went out in the yard, I heard a cardinal. He was in the tree at the end of the yard. Since the trees don’t have leaves yet, he was easy to find and didn’t seem to be disturbed as I crept closer and closer!

We did have a wussy winter. It never got very cold and we hardly got any snow, but I’m still happy that spring is coming, anyway. I was getting very tired of my winter jacket and it was nice to be outside without it, today.

Tonight it’s supposed to rain. That doesn’t bode well for the dog messes I didn’t bother to pick up today! Shoot! Should have just done it!

]]> http://lakebreeze.org/blog3/2012/03/11/spring-in-my-yard/feed/ 1 Mid-April KAL and Some Flower Pictures http://lakebreeze.org/blog3/2009/05/02/mid-april-kal-and-some-flower-pictures/ http://lakebreeze.org/blog3/2009/05/02/mid-april-kal-and-some-flower-pictures/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 16:41:05 +0000 Dawn http://lakebreeze.org/blog3/2009/05/02/mid-april-kal-and-some-flower-pictures/ Continue reading →]]> The mid-April KAL was called April Showers and designed by Deborah C. Tilley. It does look like falling rain. The yarn is Sugar””””n Cream Faded Denim and was knit on US 6 needles.  My Moebius wrap is getting ever wider and getting closer to being done.  The picture here was taken on 4-24-09, but I””””ve made significant progress since then.  The kids had a blast dying eggs on Easter Sunday, before Sarah went back to school.  The eggs were boiled on the Saturday before, but we ran out of time, then. I””””ve also enjoyed watching the flowers grow and bloom.

We are hoping that the flu passes us by. So far we””””ve been lucky, although Emily and I recently had colds.  Mine is still here, but getting better everyday.  So far, Gary has still been healthy.  Emily is hoping they DON”T have a “flu-cation” from school.  She thinks it””””s bad enough that we have to make up the wintry days on June 12th and June 15th.

Today, the sun is shining and the temperature is in the high 50””””s, which is a huge improvement over last week””””s rain. A few blocks from us, a sewer collapsed, so a major intersection is going to closed off for a month.  Ugh. I hope the time goes fast.

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