Happy Mother's Day!!

Hello there!

Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there!  

Here are some pictures from the last few weeks!  It is trying to be spring around here, but mostly it's just really wet...today should be a nice sunny day though, with only a small chance of a random short thunderstorm..the front door is open and I'm swinging along in a hammock we set up in the house.  life could be much, much worse!

We've been getting some great bird action around here...my first Hooded Warbler, baby Carolina wrens, baby Brown thrashers, high-soaring Mississippi Kites...it's been so fun to sit outside and see what visitors we get...  The garden is slowly coming along... added a lot of compost to the boxes so I'm hoping the nutrient boost will make them happy.  This weekend has been rather low key...sticking at home and putzing around...our neighbors left this morning so the past week has been spent hanging out and having dinner together.  We are so sad!  We are super thankful to have had such great neighbors for the last three years.  Our new neighbors won't move in until August.  We don't know much about them but they are a grad student couple.  Hopefully they will be nice to live next to!!!

Anyhow, we're ramping up our grilling nights these days and getting ready for Jacksonville, FL next week!  Then my parents visit for a week, I go to Coweeta, and then Dan leaves June 6th for 2 months in Iceland!  It's gonna be a whirlwind May, but should be lotsa fun!! I'm coming up with ideas for things to see with my mom and dad, and all the many meals we'll eat here in town.  I'm excited to cook, and help cook with my mom... I'll be putting her to work making this place an eggroll factory!  I only get these homemade puppies once a year usually, so now that the brain trust (my mother) is visiting I'm looking forward to help her build me up a good stack of eggrolls to keep me content until December!  You would think by now I'd have the recipe down and memorized, but I don't.  I do know the general ingredients that go into the delicious morsels, and generally how to put them together and generally how to deep fry them.  But "generally" doesn't quite cut it!!  Thus far the plan is to pick them up in New Orleans, drive to the gulf coast (tentatively Pensacola, FL) to experience the sugar sand beaches, drive to Fort Rucker to visit the Airforce army base and the US Army Aviation museum (which looks AWESOME and should be a good treat for my Dad), then head back to Tuscaloosa meet back up with Dan and Hannah to spend the rest of the week at home showing them around!