April 23, 2012: Tacos!

We were driving home this afternoon, and a guy on NPR said something about tacos.  

I thought, "Mmmmm, tacos."  

At exactly the same moment, Rob said, "Mmmmm, tacos."

It was settled.  We were having tacos for dinner.  Yummy!  Perfect for T-day in the A to Z challenge :)

April 22, 2012

Our Spanish Hyacinths are blooming.  It is like a sea of blue.

 Our lilac is starting to bloom.  Rob thought that this picture would look much better if he was in the background.....

 ...so here's a picture with him in the background.  Can you see him?  He's a little blurry.

 Finally, the amazing veggie burger I had for dinner.  Yummy.

April 21, 2012: Strawberries and Spaghetti

We moved our strawberry plants this year, and they are doing so well.  They already look so much more healthy than they did last year.  More sunlight = happy strawberry plants.

 We also bought and planted another 90 strawberry plants.  They are also doing well.  I hope we have lots of strawberries this year.

 For dinner tonight we had spaghetti.  Mmmmmmm.  Looks so good :)

April 20, 2012: Rhubarb and Really Good Wife

The new rhubarb plant in our garden.  Pretty.  We wanted to plant rhubarb so we can try rhubarb margaritas.

 Apparently the fact that I bought these two bottles makes me a really good wife :)

April 19, 2012: Q

Star Fleet Admiral Q

We love Star Trek, especially when it's a Q episode.  Rob says if he could be any Star Trek character, it would be Q.  He is a cool character.

April 18, 2012: Plant

Our goldfish plant is blooming.  I love this plant!

April 17, 2012: Olives

Olives on our Monte Carlo swizzle stick.

April 16, 2012: Night

Stars

In the top left corner you can see a plane.

 Two cars drove by while Rob was taking this one.

April 15, 2012

So this morning, I was weeding in the garden.  I pulled out some weeds and saw a huge creepy spider.  I immediately asked Rob to come take a look.  He said, "That looks like a mouse spider.  You should kill it.  They're really poisonous!"  I picked up a nearby rock and flattened the spider, three times.  Later when I stopped by to check that it was actually dead, I found a horde of ants eating it.

 Our cherry tree has blossoms.  We might get two handfuls of cherries this year.

 Yesterday we planted bare-root strawberries.  They are already growing.

 We bought and planted some flowers yesterday.  Pretty.

 Our tulips are blooming.

 These purple flowers are blooming.  I don't know what they are called :)

 And the kitty got to be outside.  She loved it.

ETA:  By the way, according to our Google search, it actually was a mouse spider, and they are actually poisonous!!

April 14, 2012: Mushrooms

We got some mushroom compost for our yard, and it started growing some really weird mushrooms.  The big one looks a little like a grumpy old man.

April 13, 2012: Lace

April 12, 2012: Knitting

My current knitting project: a seed stitch cowl knit with super bulky yarn.

April 11, 2012: Jack

Our friend Jack Daniels came to visit today.  The best part was that he brought some Cafe Yumm bowls and tofu skewers, so we could cheat a little on our diet :)  Yummy!

 And just because she is so adorable, here is Kia in her otter pose.

April 10, 2012: Inappropriate

Just Rob being inappropriate, as usual :P

April 9, 2012: Heads!

Yesterday we planted my favorite planters: the potheads :)  

 We decided this year to go with sedum and succulents.

 For the third one we got another pretty flower.

Aren't they awesome?

April 8, 2012

Today was a beautiful day.  We got a lot of gardening done and spent a lot of time just sitting in the sun.  Last year, we transplanted a couple of ferns, and one of them looked as though it had died.  Imagine our surprise when today we saw new curly growth :)  We didn't kill it after all.

 We got a pretty plant for our front porch.

 And I made my first real bouquet of the year with assorted flowers and clippings from our yard.

Hopefully the warm weather is actually here to stay :)

April 7, 2012: Gross!

Today was a beautiful day, and we got a lot of yard work done :)  Rob took on the brave task of draining the pond.  Ewww!  It smelled so gross!  As you can see there is a lot of algae still on the sides of the pond.  Tomorrow we will be buying some kosher salt to remedy that gross problem.  I am excited to fill it back up and buy a new batch of feeder fish.   Last year we bought 11 feeder fish.  Three of them survived the whole summer, but were eaten by a raccoon sometime in fall.  When the weather got cooler, the fish slowed way down, and I guess they just weren't able to hide quickly enough :(    Hopefully we have more survivors this year.

April 6, 2012: French fries

Rob had a field trip today to the bowling alley and got to enjoy some yummy curly fries.

April 5, 2012: Eerie

April 4, 2012: Dexter

We love Dexter.  If you haven't seen it, you should check it out.

April 3, 2012: Cat

Have you ever wondered what your cat does all day while you are away at work?  When our cat, Kia, was young, I always wished I could attach a little camera to her collar.  I wanted to know what mischief she got into while we were away.  Of course, she would never wear a collar, so a camera would obviously have been impossible.

 Today, I was home sick and I got to see what my cat does all day.  She's older now, about 14 years old, and it was not very exciting.  She started her day curled up on the couch and she didn't stray from that spot all day, except for meals.

 It wasn't until later this evening that she got a little burst of energy, mostly because the washer gave her a fright :)  Of course she decided to jump up behind my silk scarves and got her claws into them.  Argh!

April 2, 2012: Bees

Today was beautiful, in the 60's.  It figures, since it was the first day back to school after Spring Break.  When we got home, the bees were moving busily among the flowers.  It was hard to catch one sitting still long enough for a photograph.  They really love our grape hyacinth.

April 1, 2012: Alphabet

Today is the first day of the a to z challenge.  Welcome to any new visitors.  Hope you enjoy our pictures and please leave comments :)  We usually post late in the day; it gives us the whole day to find our pictures and makes sure you don't miss out if we see something extra cool.

 A is for alphabet.  I bought this printing press alphabet from Craigslist to do crafty things with.  I have many ideas of what I would like to do with all these letters, but have made no decisions yet.

There are just so many possibilities!