Looks like I haven't updated since mid-April, and it's hard to believe that it's May already. The second half of April included lots of outdoor work and along the way the adoption of Pillar the caterpillar.
We debated how much outdoor work we were going to do this year because we just re-did our bathroom and the kids bathroom; which look awesome now!
We decided that since we'd put off doing the bottom half of the back yard for so long that this was finally the year that we were going to re-grade it. We got our normal amount of mulch for the bed and around the trees, 10 yards I think and then we ordered 20 yards of dirt. As we were finishing mulching the front yard we realized that there was no way we'd be able to do the grading without a tractor with a scoop on the front. So we rented one of those for a day. And wa la, Daddy finished grading the back in just one day.
The remainder of the day after I got home with the kids, we seeded and then put lots of hay over the seeds.
We discovered that Roo is allergic to hay touching his skin. I had to take him to the doctor on Monday to make sure the rash was from the hay and not his tick bites from the week before. He had a couple of bites that looked worrisome so we got antibiotic for that and prednisone for the rashes on his arms and feet. His rashes are pretty much gone now and the one bite is a lot less red. The area with the bite and the rash was about the size of a baseball on his forearm and was bright red, it looked bad.
That will probably conclude our yard work for the season. I'm planting pots of veggies and herbs because we didn't have the materials to make my garden and decided we don't want to spend any more money on the yard. Roo has been an awesome helper and we planted pumpkins on the side of the house and it turns out that the herbs I planted last year are still growing, so I pruned those a bit and we planted some tomato seeds as well.
Somewhere along the way Roo found Pillar the caterpillar. He made him his friend. He fed him and gave him water and a home. Pillar has since been released back into the wild to be with his family.
Now we just need some rain to get everything to grow!
