Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Stir Crazy

The weather outside is frightful and we have been pretty much staying indoors. Lots of rain and overcast days. It's just too cold to plant any garden items, and I pray the onions we put in fare alright. Never did get those potatoes in the ground, with all the rain we've been having. They're calling for temps to drop into the 30's tonight!

We have been amusing ourselves in many ways:

Posing Barbie and Ken and making them dance in front of the screen while mama's on the computer, then insisting that mama take a picture...

Playing with playdoh, creating all sorts of funny little characters to play with, then sobbing when Peter takes it and smushes it into a blob...


Taking said playdoh, that has been mixed into dull gray colors no one wants to play with anymore, and turning it into a science project and making a volcano complete with lava...




Making silly faces...



Helping papa put together new dining chairs so we can retire the poor, falling apart old ones.



The few warmish days we've had, the kids run straight to the swing set. That set has been so nice, I'm grateful we have it. It gives this mama some quiet time indoors when I can sit at the table where I can see them and catch up on things. Local people here say May 15th is the "safe date" to plant warm weather crops outdoors. I sure hope so! I'm getting antsy to get started.


Hope the weather has been nice where you are! :o)

~later


3 comments:

barefoot gardener said...

I think Spring has forsaken us all this year... we might just end up going straight to summer, at this point. Y'know it SNOWED here the other day?!

Cheyenne said...

We have had a lot of rain too. Like yesterday when I chose to go grocery shopping. And it is dipping into the 30's tonight. I truly believe that once it makes up its mind to warm up it will go right into disgusting heat mode till fall.

jenny said...

I think both of you ladies may be right-- we'll go straight into a heatwave or something and there'll be no easing into the heat.

I'm just glad I haven't put away the winter stuff yet, like I usually do by now. Same goes for the flannel sheets and blankets. It's looking nice right now, so maybe I'll be able to put a line of laundry out today. fingers crossed!