MEA Weekend - Cigar in the Yard: Sunday

Sunday, October 21, 2018

Not quite as warm as Thursday but I think it made 60 none the less.

MEA Weekend - Cigar in the Yard: Thursday

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Great day to be in the back yard. It got close to 70 degrees if not 70 itself.

New Grill

I assembled a grill for Dale this past weekend. He cooked hamburgers on it for me.

Hot Day

Violets

Violets seen this morning on my walk to school.

Gorgeous Spring Day

Monday, April 30, 2018

 Dale got more leaves up.

The rhubarb is coming up.

And although this is not a great picture of either of us, I think this is the first time I've ever gotten Athena to look up (directly at the camera). Gorgeous day. 83 degrees. Dale and I sat out in the yard together for the first time this season.

Yep, 83 Degrees

Monday, April 30, 2018

Bagged Leaves

Monday, April 30, 2018

Here are the leaves Dale bagged yesterday. There are still more to be raked.

Front Yard Raking

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Not feeling so well today but managed to rake for about a half hour and get all the leaves over to the retaining wall on the south side of the yard. Windy from the south today so this helped shield them from blowing back to where they started. Dale was a gem and bagged them all up later. 

Back Yard

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Raked the rest of the side of the yard with the grill garden. It's starting to look promising and once you jump into it the yard work doesn't seem so overwhelming. 

Grill Garden

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Raked out the grill garden today. I thinking of gutting the whole thing this year and starting anew.

Sticks

Didn't have much time to work in the yard today but I did have a chance to pick up a few sticks.

Just trying to do a little bit every day.

Still a little bit of snow on the ground.

More Yard Work

Finished edging the back walk and finished cutting up the spruce top. I wonder what I'll end up putting in this planter.

Blizzard and Yard Work

Monday, April 16, 2018

Snow day a week ago today. 

We had quite the blizzard and ended up with 16 inches of snow over that tax day weekend. 

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Monday, April 23, 2018

Started on some yard work today.

Backyard walk is getting quite overgrown so I did some edging.  

I got some of the spruce top arrangement into yard waste bags.

Remnants of last week's snow.

P.S. Here is a friend's picture of her back yard bird feeder after last week's blizzard.

Cigar In the Yard

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Gorgeous afternoon. Hard to believe last weekend was a blizzard.

Perfect day for a cigar in the backyard. Nice to have a couple hours to think and read.

January 23 - Snow Day

Yesterday's snow ended up being quite a storm. Turns out buses had a difficult time getting kids home from school yesterday afternoon. Citywide, some didn't drop off kids until 8 p.m.  Woke up this morning to hear on the radio that school was cancelled due to roads and streets still being a mess. Snow day!!

After walking home and shoveling yesterday I estimated there was at least 8 inches of snow that had fallen. Dale told me this morning that it was actually around 11 when all was said and done. 

It was a glorious sunny day today. And the backyard looked great. Dale did a little more shoveling this morning and I did a little touch-up on the driveway. Dale had to work and I spent a lot of time doing laundry and lying on the couch. 

It's the 7th anniversary of this blog by the way.

Sunrise: 7:41 a.m.
Sunset: 5:08 p.m.
Day length: 9:26:40

Snow!!!

We had to have gotten at least 8 inches!! The walk home was arduous because most folks hadn't shoveled yet and the streets were not plowed. It took me 70 minutes to help Dale shovel us out!