Branches, Bands, & Balmy Weather

Today it was GORGEOUS out. The sun shone all afternoon and it reached 11° Celsius. I spent all afternoon and a good chunk of the evening outside messing with the yard. Some of our smaller trees were in desperate need of pruning so I got that done. Then I spent like an hour picking up dead branches that had fallen on the front lawn from the three gigantic old Oak trees during winter storms. I like these trees quite a bit. I hope I don't develop a love/hate relationship with them - I'd rather just love them.

We'll see.

The excellent news of the day is that the contractor installed our new front door! Now it opens AND closes AND locks. Imagine that.


Mark is supposed to finish off the last framing bits, so I'll post an "after" picture once he's done that.


Other excellent news: the two big white Husky dogs (that both look just like Arlo) who we've been walking for CAPS have been adopted. I don't think I told you guys about that - these two dogs have been a while waiting for adoption. They're big and there's two of them, and they have a sled-dog past so walking them on a leash is not always fun because they were taught to PULL PULL PULL. So they're not exactly the most adoptable dogs out there.


Mark and I started walking them a few weeks back in order to start teaching them not to pull. It's been going really well and they're extremely sweet dogs, so I'm happy that they have a new home. They're on a 'trial' with the new family until the end of the week - I hope it works out.

Mark has been sick for the past couple of days. That's not so great, but he's fairly cheerful because he might be in a band. We're not sure. He's been to one practice; there has been no official "join the band" invitation, but I think he's supposed to go to the next practice.


So is he in?