The garden that keeps on giving...

 

A friend of mine told me last year that parsnips get better with age.  Leaving them in the ground until the next spring strengthens their taste.  Today I decided it was time to dig a few of them up and try them out for dinner.  I think I will throw them in the oven with some olive oil and salt.  I guess I'm not much of a scientist since I should have tried one in the fall before a frost so I would have something to compare them to tonight but oh well...

 

Feeling a little like spring/summer today.  It's 68 and my crocus started blooming this week.  I'm even feeling a little like a margarita!  Too bad I don't have any Coyote Gold in the house.

Let's go fly a kite!

 

It was a beautiful 65 degrees here today with a little bit of wind.  It made it a perfect day for the kids to try out their new kites.  After a couple of attempts we finally got the butterfly off the ground.  We never did get real good at it.  I'm thinking that the shape provided some different dynamics with the wind so we will keep practicing with that one.

 

The penguin was much easier for everyone to handle. 

 

 

Invasion of the animals!

 It's spring and boy can you tell.  The rabbits have been humping, the geese have been humping, the birds have been humping! The wildlife in my backyard is going crazy!

Right now the baby bunnies are my friend.  They are cute when they 'sun' themselves in front of their 'home' (under my deck).

 

They are not so cute when they eat all my grass and it can't grow, when I have to put fences around my flowers (I'm not tolerant of plants that can't survive on their own!) to let them survive, and when I have to get dead bodies out of my window wells after they've plummeted to their death.  So far this season has been fine, only 3 babies, no deaths.

 I can't see you.  Really, I can't when you flatten your ears to your head and duck!  Those bulging eyes are VERY hard to see.

They're coming to get me!!!

 

These geese are about a half mile from us at a business park.  We've taken to biking up there a couple of days a week to check on their progress.  As you can tell by the above photo, a ton of people must be feeding them.

These geese are the latest round of babies (in the last 2 days) to hatch.

 

What they are doing by the front door to the office building is anyone's best guess!  The parents were honking up a storm too!  Like we humans had any right to enter or leave the building while they were taking their nap!  Too funny.  I can't wait to see if they are going to have more or not!

Later in the evening they had moved to this much more natural spot. (very sarcastic!)  They are in the concrete planter...I'd be interested to know how they got the two babies up there.