um....

I don't think these are peas.

 But they are for sure, right in the middle of all the pea plants.

Look! Look! Look!

PEAS!

BRUSSEL SPROUTS

STRAWBERRIES WITH FLOWERS!

Now it looks like someone lives here...

I don't think I had taken any pictures of the front of the house, but I can assure you that the area in front of the porch was pretty sad looking.  Ami bought forsythia yesterday.  Its so bright and cheery-can't believe what a difference it makes. That's my little Jack man hamming it up for the camera.

PROGRESS!

Its sunny out and it has been for 4 days straight.  Its amazing what sun does to my disposition.  Anywhooo...let me bring you up to speed.

The other gourds have decided to make an appearance.  This was the last thing I was waiting for to sprout.  I am a successful indoor seed starter.  Hooray!

Now...I moved on to transplanting all the viable plants into their very own containers..take a gander.

Look how pretty my porch looks with all the containers...I also bought 2 more rosemary plants yesterday AND Avery brought me an Easter lily.

Oh wait.  You can't see the Easter lily.  Or the rosemary plants...take my word for it.  They are there. 

Bright and early today we headed out for the first "hunt in the hood" Easter egg hunt....here are the monkeys in full race mode:

Then I started in on more yard cleanup...check out this progress. If it wasn't all nearly dead, that would be grass covered land.  After clean up, it was lunchtime...first picnic of the year.  It was modest because we don't have a table and chairs in back...

Then we planted the raspberries and blackberries:

and then roses...

 And ...I noticed something in the bed we planted peas and brussel sprouts in.  Are these peas?

If so, then we have two sets of peas sprouted.  PROGRESS.

And last but certainly not least, Ami and I have decided what we are going to do in the corner of the yard when Uncle A moves his stuff...we call it the sunburst plan...look...

ISN'T IT AWESOME?  The plan is to build it out all the way to either side to the fence and fill it in with stone or maybe smaller angled pieces of wood.  I love the idea of the used wood in with the pretty live flowers.  :)

Stay tuned. 

And one final development.

Gourds!

And now to one of the greatest emails I have received in awhile

My friend Tom and I decided to see if we could grow something at work too-our floor of the building we work in has giant glass windows that create quite the greenhouse effect when the sun is out.  We are trying peppers.

Here's the email...and then the first pic of our work experiment. PS The nap room refers to the interview room at work that I used to take cat naps in when I was pregnant.  :)

Subject: Good morning my sprouty little friends
Text: It appears that we have teased life from an envelope of inert pods and a container of loam.  Hail the magic power of the nap room.

I have crocus in my front yard

Here is the first time I saw them:

Here is what they looked like a couple days ago:
Spring has sprung here in Western Mass.