What a Beautiful Mess!

The grubbing of the yard has commenced! I'm too impatient to wait for the round-up to work so I just borrowed the bobcat from the office and Bevan went to town! The birds were grateful for the worms it churned up and I'm grateful it finally looks like we're getting somewhere! It slowed down traffic in front of our house and even got a random lady from the ward pulling over and asking what we were doing. Gee... I wonder...

Just to show that our yard isn't a total disaster area, I went ahead and planted our window boxes! We needed some color to contrast the brown dirt. I've been looking forward to this day ever since I first saw the window boxes. I started some petunia and other seeds months ago and transferred them over. I felt so cultured making our house look all Swissy. In the end it was anti-climactic because you can BARELY see any green pokin' up! I pictured a fountain of color spilling over the sides and for now all I have are these little green weedy things. I'm hoping they grow, that is if it EVER warms up!

Speaking of growing... Anna broke her first 2 teeth! The bottom middle ones came in on the same day! We felt so proud and even marked it on the calender. She's been very interested in our food lately and even gummed up an apple core I let her hold. I think she's ready for food! So far it's only been rice cereal and pureed banana, but they've both been a hit! My boss's wife lent me a book on baby foods and I can't wait to try some of the recipes.

Uncle Paul's Pomp and Circumstance

We went to Logan last weekend with family to see Paul's graduation. It was a perfect day for graduation, sunny and not too hot. Quite unlike MY graduation which included lots'o rain. At least, I THINK it rained. I don't remember it too well, which is why I wanted to re-live it. The engineering department had a few parallels to my own LAEP department. First of all, the ratio of females was about the same. There were only 5 of us back then, and then I read on the program that they only had 1 this year. Out of 25 graduates? Huh.

We walked across campus soaking up the memories. I was always walking ACROSS campus because our department was always at that far edge of it, about as far away as possible from my apartment. No wonder I was so fit back then. That and I lived off of oatmeal, apples, and stir-fry dinners for 2 years. It's amazing how little you could live on back then! How things change. Nora asked if I ever felt like returning to campus life and furthering my education.

Not really.

First of all, that chapter of my life is closed. Second, There are some things I couldn't learn in the classroom, like how much an hour of mexican labor is billed at or who rents the cheapest port-a-potties. If the wrong tree gets delivered, do you switch tags and hope your boss doesn't notice? What takes orange marking paint off your leather clogs? How do you tell (older) clients that they probably won't live to see the spruce tree reach its full height?

For now, I'll stick to dirt and plants. Let young graduates like Paul reach for the stars... and the better salaries.