Spring in Durham

 

This is the view of Spring off our deck.  They are wild dogwoods and redbud.  Might have to plant a couple of real redbuds in the back.  The tomatoes have arrived and we are going to have a bed dug out and plant the tomatoes along the back fence.  Mom does say she wants ONE tomato on the deck.

 

Mom had a lovely birthday ~ family, food and flowers with some other presents and ice cream. 

 

The orchids that I had tenderly nurtured and had to leave with Amy did beautifully!

 

We took Mom to The Bleu Olive for lunch - Lori met us and it was superb!  Fresh, delicious - Mediterranian cooking - definitely a place to go back to!

 

Then we had Jim, Lori, Maren and Jesse over for dinner - chicken parm with rottini, fresh made garlic bread, salad and ice cream cake. 

 

News:  Zoe made it into the summer program at Carnegie Mellon (very exciting) and Amy is having her knee done next week.  She likes her orthopedic surgeon who says "I do these all day long!"

 

Amy has also been trying to get a carpender in to put in the dog doors to no avail.  We are replacing the screen door on the porch because it is installed badly, so we found one that has a dog door already in it.  Genus.

 

So last night, we were talking about where we would put the dog door in the house and who would install it and Lori says "this is just a thought, but why don't you just put another new door in - with the dog door built in?"  GENIUS!!!!

 

Why didn't Amy or I think of that?  Anyway, it is probably cheaper and easier and we found both doors at Home Depot, and they will install.

 

Anything for the dogs.

 

Back to the boxes.

 

Oh, last night - big thunder storm with lots of hail! 

 

Enjoy (really) the Spring!

 

Love, Leslie