Even after the beating that was the TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) day today, or maybe because of it, I really needed to get outside and enjoy the glorious weather we've been having. I won't elaborate on the beating except to say, one down, three more to go at the end of April...except that my school has decided to proceed with the next two days as if we were taking the math and science TAKS tests and use those results as benchmarks for the April (real) exam. Note that social studies is left out of the fun. We had to give up two days of our class time last week to give our benchmark, now we lose two more days instructional time to give math and science benchmarks...bitter much? Eight school days until spring break! Now back to the delights of March...
The whole yard needs a lot of work, but I decided that weeding the front flower beds would be a nice way to spend an hour after we got home. Little Miss was very excited to help...
if helping was running around chasing the dog with her repurposed Walmart/weed collection bag. I got about 1/3 of the left side of the bed done when my bag was full. LOTS more to do.
Then we took a flower finding tour of the back yard. Individual daffodils are popping up in very odd places. Do bulbs migrate? How? The picture above is of the big tree in our back yard. I had been leaning towards believing it was an ornamental pear tree, but I'm not sure. It's full of white flower buds right now. We'll see.
Molly identified this one as a red bud tree. But it looks quite a bit different from the one in the front yard that she thought was a red bud...I'm going to need some reference books...or the internet. Yea for spring!
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