Purling Oaks

Hot date Friday

DH and I had a hot date this afternoon. 

We burned a brush pile!  I just couldn't resist the funny.  We have a burn permit but you can only burn between 6 PM and midnight.  Probably because it is more likely that the volunteer fire department members are home and not working away from the area.  DH has been battling buckthorn in our woods.  It is an invasive tree species that will take decades, if not forever, to eliminate but he's making great progress in the woods behind the house.  Buckthorn saplings pulled up last fall made up a big part of this brush pile.  What did I do?  Well, I enjoyed the fire. 

The cats enjoyed running around today in the lovely weather.  (Yes, I'm still knitting the brown bag project so no knitting photos.)  (You get cats, instead, like any good knit blogger would give you.) 

Fuzzle and Blue in the violets and a Fuzzle Glamour shot, just so Fuzzle's girlfriend knows she is still around.  And the pear tree is blooming.......

Sitting at my own table

Here's the photo of my Forest Canopy that I promised Nora yesterday.  This is the same amount of stitches as Monday when I promised so there is no, err, cheating involved.  Forest Canopy is on the sidelines due to, among other things, my pressing need to finish my Brown Bag project for the MKG meeting this coming Monday. 

I'm actually working near home for the month of May.  Pretty cool.  My only challenge is to remember that I am not as full of energy at the end of the work day as I thought I would be when I made out my list of things I wanted to do this month.   I do this every time I work and commute, which isn't all that often.  I am just kind of startled to be sitting at my own dining room table tonight.  I'll get over it in a few days and get a little routine going.  One nice routine I'm starting is making a fruit yogurt smoothie for breakfast.  Yum.

Another especially nice benefit this week is watching our fruit trees starting to flower.  The cherry tree ....