I realize I have once again been a blog slacker. I haven't really been on blogger, twitter...frankly facebook. The sun started shining and ran out into the spring-time gloriousness as fast as I possible could.
However, that run quickly turned into a smack in the face of yard work and a realization that I sat on my posterior waaaaaaay too much this winter.
Birch tree slaughter in the front yard. Good thing I raked there...three times.
The house is coming along. I am fairly certain that the old lady that lived in the house before did not know what a rake was and certainly didn't care to figure it out. I don't even want to get into the monster sized sticker bushes I am currently battling. All in all we have done a lot of work. A lot more needs to get done...sooner rather than later. In the end it will be 100% worth it..until then I will be filling my evenings with twigs, rakes and bug bites. Our biggest projects involve some tree clearing due to the fact that they are too close to the house for comfort, the impending removal of all of the respective stumps and moving a huge pile of dirt that hasn't been touched by anything besides sticker bushes and mosquitoes in the last thirty years.
Kepler and his super cool "I'm too cool to stay inside the fence" face. He thinks he is like some sort of puppy rock star.
So to try my best to deal with the problem we have done our best to take him for all sorts of mini adventures. We are fortunate enough to live right on an awesome trail system, so an after work hike with the pup is an easy option. We found that he really loves going for bike rides and running along as long as he isn't on the leash and he is not really a huge fan of going for kayak rides.
This picture was taken by Dan shortly before Kepler decided to bail, and swim to shore.It was nice for the few mins it lasted.
Well back to work. Its the first cloudy evening of the summer and that means I have an excuse to sit down, watch a movie and eat Thai food.
