Took Grant to archery practice this evening. Wow, is he good! At least to my inexperienced eye... He even got a bull's eye -- center of the bull's eye that is, he got several arrows in the eye through the hour or so we were there.
Matthew has another month of SOGO rehearsals and then the final concert on Mother's Day. We are looking forward to having our Sunday afternoons back, but I know he will miss the other kids. We'll see if he's interested in auditioning again so he can continue with that group. I think it would be a good idea, but I don't want to push him too much. It's time for him to take the responsibility for this part of his education.
The goldfish is gone. I found her on the ground outside the pond yesterday afternoon -- not a mark on her, just lying there dead. Must have jumped out sometime during the late morning or early afternoon. We will get another school of fish to keep the skeeter population down, but might wait until payday...
The hyacinths in the garden smell so good! They are just lovely to look at and sit near. I set up the sun umbrella yesterday and sat outside for an hour or so. Also put together a table using an old TV-tray stand and the children's old wagon. It works better for outside than a flat table because the edges keep papers and things in even when there's a light breeze.
Some of the daffodils are just uninterested in blooming this year -- they weren't buried too deep, so not sure why they are languishing. Perhaps we have a few that are just very late bloomers? We'll see. There are plenty of weeks left for the garden to reveal her secrets.
The native lilies -- Trillium -- are blooming profusely in our small groves this year. I think they liked the really cold weather mid-winter. They are holding on to their color better than in years past, and standing up nice and tall. Some of them have really big flowers, they are grandmothers in the forest. We will have a lot of lovely red currents this year, too. The bushes by the house are doing really well, and a few newer volunteers have been found scattered around the yard.
Non-natives like raspberries are doing well, irises are up and going strong though they won't bloom for several months yet. The peas we planted were several inches tall last I looked, probably about time to slug-proof them again. Saw some deer about a mile away this afternoon, suspect it's time to deer-proof the fruit trees, as well.
Posted by kathleen at March 23, 2004 09:23 PM