spring on ice

My mom asked about ice cover on the great lakes. We just flew over the lower part of Lake Michigan on our return flight and couldn't see any ice. But that doesn't mean it's not there. In fact, there's still 35% coverage for the lakes (total). You can read more about that here. This is our weatherman's blog. I really like the facts he gives.

That is the direct link to a specific post. If you want to be thankful that it's actually spring, go to the blog main page (here) and see how much snow Minnesota and the upper peninsula got yesterday. You can still go skiing!

I'm thankful that my daffodils are blooming and my tulips have buds on them.

more to countdown

It's time for random post Thursday!

Okay, if I could make that have some alliteration it would sound better. But I can't. Wait, how's this?

Thoroughly thrilling Thursday things

That's better.

We have our grill!!!

It will be several weeks until we get the new patio furniture. But since we haven't had patio furniture we won't miss having it. We are very excited about the grill. It's purr-dy.

I should have taken a picture, but now it's tucked away under the old (actually new, we bought it close to the end of last summer) grill cover.

I'll take some grilling photos, action shots when Bill breaks it in.

That won't be today because he's headed to Detroit. I don't know when it will be.

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You know how much I love t-shirts. Here's one that I think is super clever.

Tulip Time Festival is going to be disappointing in terms of tulips in bloom. Here's the link so you can read the full article. I love the shirt. It made me laugh when I saw it this morning. This is good marketing.

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The summer Olympics are slowly approaching. I saw a countdown the other day. Eighty-five days from today. Yippee!! I enjoy the Olympics.

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I'm trying to think if there's anything else to talk about. But I think that's it. That's all I wanted to post. Completely random, but not nearly as long as random posts could be...


Happy Thursday!

Spring finally arrived

Here are some pictures from our Mother's Day. It seems like everyone had good weather across the country. It was no exception here. It was glorious. We decided to play croquet and had a great time.


It was close, in all three games, but Bill beat me two out of three.


I thought these photos captured springtime.

time for tulips

It's spring and most of my tulips have been blooming for a couple of weeks now. We seem to have more then last year; when Bill accused me of buying more. I haven't spent a dime on tulips, but I have let them go to seed. Which apparently is working. As you can see, I have a pretty good variety. Most of the yellow and red are out front while the pink cluster is in the back. I hope to mark them and spread them out this fall. Here are a few photos I took.