April 19th and still snowing

Seems like it should be time for the snow to be over but it's snowed twice this week. It snowed enough on Monday that they got the plows out (we had been speculating that they had already removed the plows from the town trucks).

Monday's snow melted. At 6:00 am this morning, there was no snow. The picture below was shot at 8:30 am. It melted again through the day and now it's dumping again.

We've had Nicko and Maya here this week while their parents visit Iceland. We've had a number of activities going on.

• I burned my last brush pile on Tuesday. With all of the snow that was on the pile,I wondered if I'd even be able to get it started. It wound up being the easiest burn of the year.
• Kristen and Maya have been sewing some clothes for Maya's American Girl dolls. Maya's been doing most of the stitching by hand.
• Kristen has wanted a raised strawberry bed back by her raised vegetable beds. I built her one on Wednesday and sited it just across the creek from the vegetable beds. The vegetable beds are both 4' x 8' and the strawberry bed is 2' x 8'.

The strawberry bed it to the right and back behind the vegetable beds,

-JC-