Our new deck is finished. I want to grow grapes and climbing roses and clematis on it. Two of the photos are of the duplexes being built below us. All the houses look almost identical and I don't know who would buy the ones going in directly behind us.
M.H.

Spring Break

Spring break
Yesterday was the first day of spring break. We went ice skating and a bit of shopping. Today L was off to speech contest early and everyone else slept late. E worked a lot on her science fair display yesterday and she's off to a movie now. I put a roast in the crock pot and made cookie dough. Cleaned the basement stairs, which needed it. One more area of the house cleaned. I took down the remainder of Xmas and Chinese New Year decorations and put up Easter. Rainy and gloomy all day. Went down to the library where E loaded up and the girls played the nutrition games.

I've drank a lot of tea and read a book. A quiet day.

M.H.

Teen Area and Balcony View

Library Office

Here's the office manager's remodeled office. HNI desk and purple wall. M.H.

Wallpaper

Wallpapering done, but I need to buy some tan paint and paint the wall between the shower and the closet. I just didn't want to do the whole room in the pattern and I thought it would be hard to paper around the narrow edge. Because I'm in the bathroom, Nibbles expects to be fed. How do you like the pattern of the curtain with the pattern of the paper?
M.H.

Thick frost

Woke up Saturday to the strangest frost. I think it had to have been frost because there was no snow on the sidewalks. It is the thickest frost I've ever seen - just like snowflakes all stuck together. The woods were solid white, with just the trucks and major branches of the trees showing dark. It was more of a thick fuzzy frost than a delicate one. Very beautiful morning.
M.H.

Sledding

M and S out in the snow.