I love my house.  Once we finish replacing the windows I want to get the outside painted.  I'm thinking a medium to dark gray with crisp white trim.  The front door would be a gorgeous lime green or orange now.  But by the time we get the windows done, I will probably have a new favorite color.  

We have replaced 6 out of 12 windows. The windows were the old crank open windows.  In the picture the one on the left is replaced.  The one on the right is an old picture window.  The middle is plain glass with a roll out window on each side.  I've priced picture windows and just can't see spending that money.  We decided to replace it with 2 windows.  We know once we are gone our kids won't live here.  It'll be sold and the new owners will bulldoze the house.  We're just trying to make it comfortable for us in our retirement without spending a lot of money.  

We're also working on our old house and getting it ready for sale.  I forgot to take a before picture.  But from the load on the trailer you can see how much Rick cut from just the front yard.

We had thought we had it sold to a family member but after a couple of years they decided it wasn't for them.  We're okay with it, but it puts us in a scramble to get it back in shape to put on the market.

I loved it but when I had the opportunity to move back to my childhood home and have 1 1/2 acres  and "NOT" be in a subdivision, I never looked back.  I've probably have said this before but moving from 1700 sq ft with a two car garage to 840 sq ft with sheds was a little hard. Going from 4 bedrooms wasn't that bad.  But going from 2 baths to 1 has really been hard.

When we got home from working at the old house Rick made us a late lunch.

My Plate

Rick's.

He made shrimp and oyster Po Boys.  I love Nola but I had never had a PO Boy there.  Rick did back in his trucking days.  So being the good cook he is, it came out great.  I couldn't eat all of mine but it was so good.  

Great Weekend

We took a couple of days off and worked with a little play on the side.

 After working hard I started taking pics.

The fig we planted about 10 yrs ago was our largest producer until the squirrels discovered figs.   Our rescue dog Mama has a pup, we named Molly, who chases squirrels.  My hope is that this year I will actually get a few figs.  I won't tell you about a couple of weeks ago when Molly went after a squirrel by trying to climb a crepe myrtle tree.  Yep, I won't.  I had nightmares of broke legs.  

Our few green beans are hanging in there.  Our land is low and the recent rainy years have turned our garden area into a mini pond.

Hubby discovered a mulberry bush at the property line.  He took a cutting and I hope to have 2 new fruit trees in the coming years.  The fruit is red and sweet.  But from what I read, it can be black, red, or white.  Since these are sweet and red, maybe that is it.  

This is Miss Molly.  She adores her Mama first and me second.  She is sleeping on my foot.

I brought Moma (approx 1 yr old) home March 2016 with the intention of letting her give birth in a nice place and then taking her and her pups to the shelter.  One pup was still born and the other was Molly.  I couldn't do it.  Those two are the phrase "two peas in a pod".  I can't get a pic of the two of them together.  They just won't stay still.  Molly is taller and longer than her Moma.  While Molly is not brave, Moma has already protected us from an intruder a few months ago.

Lazy Day...we wish

7 of my 8 grape plants survived.  They are putting on leaves.  One had ants around it.  I dusted them but I guess it wasn't soon enough.  The blackberries are starting to bloom.  Hubby has been moving them from the back of the garden to a fence closer to the house.  Last year we had a bunch but picking them required rubber boots and a lot of effort.  We'll finish transplanting this year and then mow the rest.   

Rosemary and oregano survived the winter in pots outside.  I love herbs.  As much as I love smelling them my favorite one will always be dill.  My favorite garden smell are the tomato plants.  I brush against them just so I can smell them.

My lone apple tree looks great even after Rick's massive pruning once the frost had it's fun. I hope we can get a few apples this year.   My first lady bug of the year was on this tree today.

Last but not least Rick is enjoying picking his onions.  We were trying not to pull them before we had good bulbs but the constant  rain is a threat and we don't want to lose them to rot in the ground before they have nice size bulbs. It's become a waiting game.

 2012 and 2013 we were going through a drought and had to water here constantly.  We moved here in 2014 and have dealt with flooding since then.  We remind ourselves that we are blessed to be in a major city with this much land to have a hobby farm.  The location may suck a little but I could never drive an hour to work every day just to live in a suburb.  And you are still not in the country.  

Rick wants chickens but it's hard to keep up with what we have since we work full time.  They'll just have to wait until we or "he" retires.

Hope your work week is a good one.  Easter is around the corner.  😍