Workin' 'round the hosue

I suppose after complaining about the weather here, here, here and here, the least I can do is give a shoutout when the weather is simply spectacular, like it was yesterday and promises to be today and tomorrow. Partly sunny yesterday, with temps near 80. One passing thunderstorm made us stop our yardwork for about an hour, but that's not so bad is it?

In typical New England fashion, we've gone directly from early spring (cold, wet, rainy), right into summer, as temperatures were expected to be in the low 90s on Memorial Day. Hmm, but now that I check the weather forecast, the prediction is back down to the upper 70s, and partly to mostly cloudy. Well, one weather site has it upper 70s, the other has it upper 80s. Guess we'll just have to see. Sounds like the weather pages are "nowcasting", where they succeed in telling me what the forecast is now.

Yesterday, as mentioned, was a work in the yard day. After having been neglected for most of the spring due to inclement weather, we're in catch-up mode. Mow the lawn, get some annuals in, put down mulch, that sort of thing. Today will be more of the same.

The girls were busy busy busy all day. The "toy" of choice for the day was caterpillars. We have the furry ones that keep showing up and they have been collecting them. Don't enlarge the picture at the right if you are at all squeamish about caterpillars! They moved them from container to container, named them, put in leaves and grass, and in general, had a high time of it with them. Of course, once they found out that their mother and the next door neighbor girl were one of the squeamish ones, the fun just increased! The picture on the right is Adrienne, showing off the current collection of five wiggly 'pillars. That's my girl!

The other picture is them on the front porch, during the brief rain shower. Lunch on the porch, with their caterpillars in the box on the right and their mother safely ensconced behind a closed door. As Rhiannon said, "Isn't this the life?"