Is it Spring Yet?

Okay, what is up with this weather? We have spent the past two days working in the yard. Our trees and plants are already trying to bloom. What in the world?? We are getting SO excited about spring and summer. I finally convinced Brett it "IS" fun to work in the yard :) Sorry Brett, I know you will read this. Last summer he actually enjoyed working outside. Each year we try and add something to our backyard. Last year we added a fire pit and more landscaping (mostly trees). One of our trees died, so in the next couple of weeks we are getting a new one to replace it. We now have 12 trees in our backyard alone! That doesn't even take into account all the bambo, grasses, crepe myrtles, and other shrubs. We have two new houses around us, one on the south, and one directly behind us. Our goal is to make our backyard as private as possible with trees and bambo. In our neighborhood, there are a lot of hills and slopes allowing neighbors to see directly into your yard. Not so good. As much as we love our neighbors, we like some privacy. Pretty soon our yard is going to look like a jungle and "hopefully" we will be all enclosed. At least that is the plan! And for our neighbors directly behind us (they haven't moved in yet)...I pity them. Pierce and Sierra have a fort toward the back of the yard that looks directly into their backyard. Grams & Papaw bought Pierce some new "real" binoculars for his birthday this year. He has already tried them out on the neighbors. He will go upstairs in his fort and look into others backyard. One day he shouted to me that one of our neighbors was on her back porch talking on the phone...of course she could hear him too :) Grams & Papaw...just hope you have a separate savings account for bail money. Something tells me Pierce may need it :):)

Here's hoping for warm weather soon...for good!