April has been a good peaceful month around here. It got off to a busy start with me being gone on a over night church trip and Grants birthday festivities. but then rest of the month has been a good school and work routine and lots of free evenings.
Things have greened up and it does my soul good to see all the colors of spring. I am even enjoying mowing the lawn at this point.
Grant and Rex by the Frogs at the St. Louis Zoo. (In the 2nd picture Grant asked that we take his picture with him as "the butler"...I think he nailed it! Alfred (from Batman) would be proud.
On a Beautiful Saturday I declared it was "outside" day. We got the hammock out, enjoyed a lunch picnic, fun at the park, and watching frogs in the pond.
Our bird feeder has pretty much just been a feasting ground for the squirrels. But I tried out a new mix that is supposed to be spicy that squirrels don't like. It has work AMAZINGLY!! The squirrels are gone and we have been getting so many varieties of birds. There is also a large population of Gold finches all of a sudden feeding there that I have never seen before now. In this picture is a male Gold Finch and a Downy Woodpecker. We also regularly see Black Capped Chickadees, Nut-Hatches, Cardinals, Wrens, Tuffed Tit-Mouse, Hairy Woodpeckers, and sparrows (Will's ornithology class from college has been coming in handy lately). We haven't seen any owl at the bird feeder but we have heard them talking at night several times. Also a hawk flew right into our window the other day when we were all sitting in the living room! BANG! ....it recovered and flew off.
I finally got a new phone! Yay! The boys were kind enough to help me try out some of the new features on my camera.
In May we are looking forward to a few more birthdays in the family, anniversary's, the end of the school year for both boys, and Will is going to a week long advanced SWAT training in Chicago.
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