yes, that’s a heart-shaped potato

i asked peter to get rid of the outhouse...

...he killed it for me. *sigh* my hero!

we didn’t realize we had an outhouse when we bought the house.  but we did!  complete with toilet, and a mound of toilet paper, and posters of kittens on the walls.  …no privacy, though – it had a screen door.

hauling rocks

building the fire pit

raelen taking pictures of daddy and nisha dancing. look at that face on nisha - she loves her daddy!

ready to build a fire

roasting marshmallows in our own backyard!

i’ve been digging a garden in the yard, and i’ve pulled out huge numbers of rocks. ..its like they float up to the surface of my garden from the earth’s core, because i dig in the garden, pull out all the rocks i can find, come back the next day to more rocks just sitting on top of the dirt, waiting to say hello.  either that, or they’re rolling themselves back into the garden after i pull them out, laughing at me all the while.  anyway, we decided to use a small portion of the rocks to build a fire pit.

…and this is one of the reasons parts of our house are falling down…

look closely...that's a downy woodpecker pecking holes in my house...and not for the first time, by the way..

and do not return to it without watering the earth

making it bud and flourish, so that it yields

seed for the sower and

bread for the eater,

so is my word that goes out from my mouth:

It will not return to me empty,

but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

You will go out in joy

and be led forth in peace;

the mountains and hills

will burst into song before you,

and all the trees of the field

will clap their hands.

Isaiah 55:10-12

in my garden - march 12

no idea what any of it will be.

i'm not even sure these are buds - i just want them to be!