Almost Forgot

To announce that I officially declared it spring in my kingdom yesterday.

I had to work all weekend, but when I got home yesterday we went outside to clean up the yard and mow the grass for the first time all year. Last fall we planted some grass seeds in our many patchy areas. I thought I'd covered them up with enough dirt, but they must have washed away until they were held in place by our existing grass. Now instead of thin turf with dirt patches we have lush, thick, golf course grass with dirt patches. Those areas of nice new grass were way long, too, just in the wrong places.

We also finally turned off the heat (that hadn't had to come on in quite a while) and opened up the windows. One of our reasons for buying a newer house was cheaper, more efficient utilities. We've definitely noticed a difference in our bills, plus the temperature in the house stays very constant instead of adjusting to the weather so we'd hardly noticed the fluctuations as it began to warm up outside.