I've been lounging in my chair by the fire thinking about all of my friends.  It seems that the folks haven't been doing much lately, but then they reminded me that they haven't exactly been slacking off.

We had a quiet Christmas and a fun, but flu-ish New Year!!  We've had some rain and some gorgeous spring-like weather which has given us a jump on landscaping projects.

All the blackberries along the creek behind us in this picture are now gone!  You can't usually see the water unless we get a couple inches of rain.  Dad burned all the blackberries too.  Now we'll just have to keep up on the new sprouts.  There's still more trimming to do, but we have some beautiful creek beachfront now.

 They also removed the old, unmanageable, table grapes in the field near the house looking down to the creek.  Dad wanted them, Mom didn't.

The rock pile in the same field has been removed.  Mom wanted them, Dad didn't.

The field has been tilled once and will be done a couple more times as the weed seeds sprout.  Hopefully, when the wildflower seeds go in, the weeds will be gone!!  The goal is to have large areas of wildflowers and grasses that only have to be mowed once and don't use much water.