Jun. 20, 2008 - Our week off school...
This has been our week off from school and we have jumped HEADLONG into pulling the yard in place. Our yard is quite the landscaping challenge. We have every kind of weed indigenous to Illinois, but one, cheerfully growing in our backyard in between plots of dirt that we are also growing! With 4 trees in and around our backyard, we have very little sunlight for long periods of time, and with 8 children and LOTS of neighbors, we also have high traffic...which lends it self to a landscapers nightmare!
But, at least our weeds are mowed and whacked and our doorless shed is cleaned out and the bikes are residing happily in their new rack close to the house and all is tidy and swept.
Of course, that is just the OUTSIDE. The inside also needs a nice tidy little pick-up. Isn't it amazing that when you have 15 bookcases throughout your house, how easy it is for them to look sloppy when books are piled and lying down on those shelves??? I think my project for this evening will be to stand all the books up, throw out collected catalogues (hard for me to get rid of *sniff, sniff*) and magazines and generally dust. This will, by itself, make a huge impact with the look of clutter around the living room and den.
We've been able to compare the moon's phase on this site along with the times we've seen the moon outside at night and it is lots of fun!! Hoping to make a trip out to the college one night to watch and track the stars/constellations we've learned so far!
