the big yellow one is the sun

Today was absolutely gorgeous! and I got to spend the day just as I'd hoped to, working out in the yard. I picked some weeds in the backyard and a ton in the front yard. I also raked and picked up all the leaves in the front yard and even started working up the soil a little bit where tomorrow I'll be planting things. I also went to Home Despot and got some temporary plastic fencing we can use in the back to cordon off the area where we're going to try to grow some grass - to keep the poocherinos from using that area for bathroom purposes.

Flowers out front on 4-2-05:


Flowers today (4-9-05):




The furniture people also delivered the second nightstand and put together the bed frame today. Things are still in a state of flux in the bedroom as we have to wait for the service people (different from the delivery people) to come out to look at the scratched drawers on the dresser. Part of me hopes they'll just replace the whole thing, but another part wishes they'd be able to fix it really fast so that we don't have to wait for a replacement to be ordered and arrive. Having all our non-hanging clothes piled up in the computer room is getting tiresome.

I've actually started knitting my first official garment! It's a light summer sweater in a really gorgeous lilac cotton yarn with a bit of sheen. So far I'm about six inches done with the back, so not very far yet. I'm attempting to be very careful and not get too full of myself when I see that I am actually knitting fairly neatly and consistently. Woot!