Since living in our new house we have discovered the following:

1. Cilantro tastes extra good when you’ve grown it yourself.

2. We have a very fragile nest in our tree and everyday find a new baby bird in our back yard.  We have had one funeral so far.

3. Having a pet spider in a secret corner keeps the bugs away, though today we discovered our spider is a cannibal so we might not keep her after all.

4. When you buy a bed from Oak Express on Furniture Row, it may never arrive.

5. Troy and I are on our way to becoming Master Gardeners.

We took a break from our unpacking, planting and picture-hanging to spend a few days with the family in Kansas over Memorial Day weekend (pictures galore below).  We returned with a trunk-full of hostas, irises, tomatoes, succulents, sage and other gardening goodies from my parents’ backyard, making it difficult to go to work and school when all we want to do is water things and smile at them. Huck has one more week of 5th grade, we’ve bought our Mount Sequoyah pool membership, and my summer camp begins Monday. If you don’t hear from me for a while, that’s why.

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Huck’s Destruction