Planting and Welcoming New Lives...

We love the spring and summer months so much...there is so much to do outside that the inside kind of gets neglected. I suppose that is the way it should be though. The need to get outdoors is a way bigger pull than to stay in and do laundry, or clean a nasty toilet...let's see toilet bowl-outside-toilet bowl-outside...duh! Outside wins hands down!

The little blue spruce had been named Elsie, but as of this morning its name has been changed to Alfrid. Yes, the little person in our household likes to name all the plants and trees and flowers..."They are living things, Momma!" (and I quote). We have Fern, Charlotte, and Emma. They are lambs ear stalks with flowers on them. There is also Abigail, Muriel, and Ingrid. They are Japanese Irises. Oh, and Gladys. She is the lone gladiola in the flower garden. So, it is Alfrid, for the baby blue spruce...with an emphasis on the "id". I love it!!!

Digging the hole...


Patting down the soil with Daddy...


Watering it in...


Done!


We also have a new member of the family...Snowflake better known as Prometheus (at least until I find out what that means exactly)...it is a white male betta fish. I never knew they came in white...but they do...he did! We have had a blue one named Finnegan and a red one named Kierkgard (not sure I spelled that right, my college age son named him...he is a philosophy major)LOL.