Day 111 April 21

On one of our few and far between days without rain I decided to give Terry a break and took the kids down to mom and dad's for a little while.  They really enjoyed the day blowing bubbles with grandma and playing with all the dandelions.  We also took a walk along the banks of the river and toured the almost completed Riverview restaurant.

Day 110 April 20

More fun pics of my irises.  The peach ones opened first then the purple ones opened up.  Of course they are my favorite.  Too bad they don't last very long.

Day 109 April 19

Hmmmm....so I guess it's true.  There really is Fruit in the Middle.

I had cut out the info from the box for the mail in rebate and Mason grabbed the box.  It just begged for a picture.

Day 108 April 18

My Irises are finally in full bloom.  They are looking quite beautiful too.

Day 107 April 17

Some of the simplest things in life are watching your kids have fun playing with nature.  What's more than a good ole fashioned dandelion?

Day 106 April 16

I bought Terry some new flowers today.  Just because.

Day 105 April 15

This day's photo actually has a real story to go with it.  About 1am Terry woke up and said he was hearing "that noise".  I told him he was crazy that I didn't hear anything.  "That noise" is a noise that sounds like a small child screaming or an animal in mortal agony.  We've heard it once or twice before but only for a few moments and usually far away.  Tonight it was close.  I finally heard it to and Terry realized it was coming from the front yard.  We watched the yard by the light of the streetlight just hoping to see our mysterious noise maker when...there it was...a dog?  Nope.  More correctly it looked to be a coyote.  We watched off and on for almost an hour as it kept darting in and out of the bushes and screaming it's painful sounding scream.  We realized it must have a mate in the bushes.
We went back to bed but I decided that Jina probably shouldn't walk to the bus stop just in case.  When we got up at 6am I looked outside and low and behold what is sound asleep in my driveway?  Yep the noisy critter.  That started up his racket again.  And because of him, Jina was late for school because I wasn't going outside until he was gone.  After it became daylight, we realized it wasn't a coyote either.