Tuesday April 21, 2009

 

 

Monday & Tuesday

Good Growing Weather

 

 The girls, Abigail and Elizabeth, were up early on Monday – ready to head back to Maine.

 

 

 I like this situation!

Abigail, one of our Maine granddaughters, has a friend (a young man) in our “neck of the woods” – meaning she takes advantage of every opportunity to come to Pennsylvania.  

 

 

 I noticed a new bird (new for this season) in the feeder this morning – a female brown-headed cowbird.

 

 

 I could hardly believe the overnight change in the weather – from a sunny, warm Sunday to a cold, rainy Monday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 My favorite “caterer” arrived just before noon.  I appreciate their healthy, easy-to-serve meals – especially when I am busy in the office.

 

 

Just before supper, we stopped at Jeff and Chris’ before picking up our van at the garage (needed inspection).  Diana demonstrated the stacking skills that got her on TV (local Fox channel) the other morning.

 

 

 Her speed is amazing.

 

 

 She can even go through a set of stacking and compressing without looking.

 

 

 Grandpa tried to trick her.

 

 

 She went through a set with Jenna holding them.

 

 

 A birthday cake for Jake!

Shortly after we got home from Jeff and Chris’, our daughter-in-law Kristen came to show us their dog’s first birthday cake.  How clever.

 

 

 This morning (Tuesday) was cool and sunny.

 

 

 Everything was still very wet from yesterday’s rain.

 

 

 Our Cats and Kittens (or Hen’s and Chicks) are beautiful this spring.

 

 

 I’m pleased that my dad’s last pair of work shoes are still there in the garden – since his death in 1997.

 

 

 I looked up when I heard this chickadee.  It probably did not appreciate me being there while it was building a nest.

 

 

 The leaves on this tree are beginning to open.  We have never taken the time to identify it.

 

 

 The crops in the fields are growing before our eyes.

 

 

 It is a beautiful time of year.

 

 

 This evening, about suppertime, a thunderstorm moved through the area.

 

 

 It rained so much the spouting overflowed.

  

 

 The weatherman says we are supposed to have more rain tomorrow, then a span of warm, sunny days. 

This is certainly good growing weather.