Artwork from school

Here are some paintings from school. They are watercolor, and then they sprinkled salt on them to make them sparkle like snow. Or somesuch.

This one is a family portrait. Bob, me in the middle, and Parker on the right. She got cut off a little in the photo.

New Toy

Today, Parker discovered that her old 'vacuum cleaner'...which was really one of those toddler push toys with the balls inside that would go POP POP POP when you pushed it, was "put up in the attic" (or maybe given away) (or maybe thrown away if you want the truth). So now she's a proud owner of a toy Dyson, just like mommy's. It actually does work and suck up stuff, but she doesn't know that yet. So far she's content with just pushing it around and saying "nnnnnnnnn", so I might keep that info to myself. Plus the idea of cleaning out the dirt tray grosses me out.

Weekend events

Another weekend recap.
We had another busy one, lots of shopping for home decor on my part, and lots of together time for Parker and Bob.
She also had some play time with her friend. In this picture, they're playing Hi Ho Cherry-O and Parker is correcting the way her friend put her cherries on the board. She prefers 'stem down' so they don't roll around when you spin.

And the fruits of my shopping trips:

Yes, after 4 years we finally have artwork hanging in our home. I really wanted something non-objective, but this is a neutral-enough subject, and slightly abstract (up close) and we all agree that we like it, so it's a winner. With any luck, next week I'll post drapery pictures!

Weekend chores

These are pictures from last week. We had a productive day around here! We took town all the Christmas stuff and since the weather was nice, Bob did some outdoor yardwork.

Helping with the outdoor lights.....

And is it just me, or are all the pictures of Bob surrounded by a pile of limbs starting to run together? The dead Willow tree at the end of our driveway is gone now.

Here's an action shot......

And the giant dead Redtip in the front of the house is gone too. I guess the drought/wet spring combo was too much for it.

The aftermath....

Apparently the sound of a chainsaw is to a man's ears as a dog whistle is to a dog's ears. This was the resulting pow-wow.