March 2008 / one a day

March 1 / Saturday / The first March picture is one I took at our DDs’ house, where we stayed overnight on our way to visit DS#1 and his family. DD#2 and DD#3 snuggled up in the recliner and played games while DH made pancakes before we left for DS’s house.

DD#3 and DD#2

March 2 / Sunday / We got reacquainted with the twins.

Grandpa gets twin time

March 3 / Monday / I love this picture of Tabitha. Her eyes are so bright and her face is so new and clear. No harsh lines, no worry lines, no grief lines. No “life” lines. Yet.

Tabitha

March 4 / Tuesday / DD#3 was quite taken with the babies. I love the look on her face in this picture.

play time

March 5 / Wednesday / We got some great portraits of the girls in the cute dresses I found for them.

the girlies

March 6 / Thursday / We got home in the afternoon after a week away. DH and DD#3 spent most of the remaining afternoon outside. They burned the tall grass, a task usually done in February, though weather did not permit that this year. Our spring is late in coming, so the grasses have not shown any green tips yet. Still time to burn.

burning the tall grass

March 7 / Friday / Hmmm…no pics taken this day.

March 8 / Saturday / I had fun trying some macro photography for my first posts to Macro Mondays.

move eight spaces...

March 9 / Sunday / We traveled two hours to my sister’s house for a family meeting.

Sibling #7, #1, #2 (me), #3 (one of the twins), #5, #4 (the other twin), #6, and my parents.

family portrait

March 10 / Monday / I like the way this picture turned out. Buttercup just *had* to investigate the set up for my macro photography of game pieces.

how should I play this one?

March 11 / Tuesday / I discovered the macro and super macro modes on my camera. What fun!

paperweight

March 12 / Wednesday / We worked in the yard, cleaned branches and garden debris from the yard, piled it on the burn pile, and had a wiener roast that evening. Hot dogs and S’mores.

yummy!

March 13 / Thursday / Another shot for Macro Mondays. This one for the assignment: books.

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March 14 / Friday / DD#2 arrived home for spring break. It will be good to have her home for the next week.

home for spring break

March 15 / Saturday / DD#3 and DH helped serve at the 4H Pancake Day. I spent some time helping at the ticket table. Saw a lot of people I haven’t seen for a while. This afternoon, we took DS#2 and DDIL to the airport for their flight to London.

serving drinks at pancake day

March 16 / Sunday / When DH and DD burned the tall grasses last week, they moved this bench away from the fire. DH set it back in place today as we walked the yard this afternoon. Cloudy, breezy, 48*. A little chilly with the wind, but it is good to see spring coming up. We found catnip coming to life in the veggie garden, so we picked some for the kitties. Happy ignored it. Buttercup ate it all.

resetting the bench

March 17 / Monday / Happy St. Patrick’s Day! This afternoon DD#2 and I walked through the yard, snapping pictures. The tawny daylilies are always the first daylilies up and they are a beautiful shade of green when they are this fresh and new.

tawny daylily

March 18 / Tuesday / Rain, rain, rain. Weather news said Cape had 10″ yesterday, so I wouldn’t be surprised if we are near that here.

under water

March 19 / Wednesday / In spite of my bringing the Von Sion in early, the miniature Tete-a-Tete daffodil opened first. DH picked it last night when he came home from work.

the mini wins

March 20 / Thursday / In the early evening, I caught this photo of the sunlight shining through the goblets on the shelves that display my Christmas china.

setting sun

March 21 / Good Friday / I assisted DD#2 in picking frames for her new eye glasses.

can't decide...

March 22 / Saturday / DD#3 colored a dozen eggs today. Tomorrow they’ll be deviled eggs for dinner. I think the cups of dye are as pretty as the colorful eggs are.

Easter egg dye

March 23 / Sunday / Happy Easter! Christ is risen! Indeed, He is risen!

My favorite Easter candy? Snickers eggs. I could hunt for these every day…

my favorite Easter candy

a day off

DH’s day off work is Wednesday. Of course, he goes in to do paperwork for four or five hours, but that doesn’t count, right? This Wednesday was the first one this year that was nice enough to work outside. The first thing we did was plant the irises that we had leftover from digging up a bed last fall. They sat in those bags in the wagon all winter. Now they are sprouting green leaves and revving up for spring. So we sprinkled them over the propagation bed and DH spread composted mulch over them.

planting irises

Hardy little things. They will be up and going in no time.

iris

After planting the irises, we cleaned up fallen branches under the pine tree. They came down in the last winter storm a few weeks ago. DH found a bird’s nest in the debris. We piled all the branches on the wagon and hauled them to the burn pile in the back yard.

nest

We stopped for lunch, then headed back out to clean debris from the flower beds. Asters, purple coneflower stalks, Russian sage, daisies, and other misc. things had to be cut back in preparation for new growth. Lots of green buds and sprouts out there. On the west side of the yard, we have an old glider that came from DH’s parents. It gets more lichen covered every year. It’s one of many resting spots we have in the yard.

Grandma's glider

The burn pile had not been burned for several years and was as big as we wanted to see it. Time to burn. The weather was so pretty (68*) that we decided to have a wiener roast for supper. DD#3 was very excited when she found that out!

big burn pile, hot fire

Of course, we had to make S’mores. Ooey, gooey, chewy goodness.

ooey, gooey, chewy

with a flash

We enjoyed sitting by the fire, watching the flames. Finally, about 7:30, we called it quits. DH doused the coals and we headed inside.

cracklin' fire

It was great to spend the day outside, working in the yard again. We’re looking forward to more of that! ~~Rhonda

Zilli and the ladybug

It’s spring and that means ladybugs in the house on warm days. Zilli found one in the kitchen this morning.

what's that?

Gotcha!

gotcha

She rolled over and promptly lost the little bug.

where'd it go?

She looked all over the floor but couldn’t find it.

I thought I had it

Ladybug? What ladybug?

ladybug? what ladybug?

Not sure when it quit hitchhiking, but it may be outside now. 🙂 ~~Rhonda

at last

Spring is here. The white crocus opened today. I noticed them when I went out the back door to try to get a picture of the skunk ambling across the back yard. Missed the skunk (I don’t mind saying I wasn’t very aggressive on that front), but found the crocus.

opened today

The daffodils near the back door are about ready to pop.

soon

While we were gone last week, the yellow crocus popped out. We got the report from our house sitter. Prior to this year, the latest we’ve had the first bloom was Feb. 22. These opened March 5. But, at last, winter is over.

opened last Wednesday

~~Rhonda

a few more pics from our trip

The cemetery was an interesting place to stroll. Quiet and peaceful and full of history. When we decided it was time to go, DD talked us into another half hour. She had a great time.

dwarfed

Signs of spring were every where. This tree was so ready to burst into leaf. It won’t need much encouragement.

ready to burst into spring

Acorns were abundant and also springing into life.

acorn along the road

oak trees waiting to happen

On the way home, we enjoyed a pretty evening sky. I snapped a few pictures through the car window.

clouds along the interstate

evening sky

We had a lovely visit, but are glad to be home again. I guess I’m a bone fide homebody. No place I’d rather be than right here. ~~Rhonda

baby portraits

The twins posed beautifully this morning for some portraits.

Tabitha and Miranda, our first grandchildren. They are four months old tomorrow.
the girlies

Three sisters and an aunt. I think Tabitha looks a lot like her aunt did as an infant.

3 sisters and an aunt

I took one of DS’s baby outfits along and we put it on each of the girls for pictures. Not bad for a 28 year old outfit. ;-D

“Precious Baby”

Tabitha

Miranda and G'ma

Big sister, Mommy, Daddy, and the girls.

family portrait

Tabitha and Daddy. DS is a stay-at-home-dad, and doing a great job with caring for the girls. Mom works days, DS works a few nights a week.

Tabitha and Daddy

We are on our way home. Had a great visit and are looking forward to their visiting us in July! ~~Rhonda

cemetery visit

DS#1 gave us a tour of one of his favorite cemeteries in town. The weather was beautiful, in the low 70s, partly cloudy, partly sunny, lots of nice photo ops.

spring sky

“He may be *your* grandpa, but he’s *my* Daddy.”

Dad's girl, Grandpa's girls

DD#3 was impressed with the size of this tulip tree.

big and tall

She enjoyed babysitting the twins, too. 🙂

double duty

In the House of Memory…stone windows.

stone window

Under the magnolia tree, lines of Confederate grave sites.

under the magnolia tree

God’s finger touched him…

touched

Beautiful monuments, urns, statues, etc., were abundant.

urn

The twins did not like the wind in their faces.

Grandpa's girls

baby doll

Signs of spring were everywhere.

spring green willow

It was wonderful to get outside, walk in the fresh air, enjoy the sunshine, see spring bursting forth…we didn’t want to leave!

~~Rhonda

more baby pics

cute or what?

Grandpa can make them laugh.

Grandpa

Miranda

Miranda

Tabitha’s hair goes every which way. 🙂

happy girl

~~Grandma

visiting the grands

On the way east to visit the grandbabies, we stopped for the night and stayed with DD#1 and DD#2. It was great to see them again. This morning, DH made pancakes with chocolate chips. Made a camera shaped one for DD#2 who is in a photography program. Of course, they didn’t get a picture of it. 🙂

DD#3 and DD#1

DD#3 and DD#2

This afternoon, we arrived at DS#1’s house and had a great visit with his family, a delicious supper, and lots of fun getting reacquainted with the babies…twin girls.

g'pa and g'ma

Look at that face…Miranda’s keeping an eye on Aunty.

lookin' at Aunty

Tabitha and Miranda both have blue, blue eyes.

baby blue eyes

Holding hands…aren’t they sweet?

holding hands

Miranda and Tabitha…almost four months old.

sweet sisters

I’ll be posting more pictures. Stay tuned. 🙂 ~~Rhonda

DD#3





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I have three sweet girls. This is one of them. Photo taken by her sister, another one of them. 🙂