Strawberries and mud

 This week the weather was really good, and we spent a lot of time in the yard enjoying it.

Mike and the kids finished up building the "stump fort" - adding windows and a ladder up to the top. Mike also cleaned up the yard, and started planning what things were going where in the garden.

We went to strawberry hill and took 7 strawberry plants to transplant in our yard. As of yet they are all still looking pretty good. We transplanted them under ideal conditions: a rainy, cool day, and we took the entire root ball of each one, so hopefully they survive well.

The kids have been playing a lot with Aiden (the boy that lives one house to the south of us), and have been flooding the yard and making mud balls a lot. Mike doesn't love the mud that much, but the kids love it so much that we need to come up with some solution to the disagreement. Perhaps mike will offer the back area of the yard to them as long as they treat the part that is grass with more care.

With the lingering aftereffects of people getting sick we took it pretty easy this week with the exception of Mike, who did two interviews about his published board game, and also had large school assignments due, as well as a sizable number of ones to grade as well.

Today Rea threw up, so we are worrying that there is more sickness coming around...