Saturday March 24

Today was a hard working day.

Dad started early this morning after getting off duty.

He headed to the Taco Bell arena to set up for the 'Kelly Clarkson' concert.

The guy who runs it likes to hire firemen because of their experience with ropes and heights and such.

Anyway.....so he left the safety of his firehouse to hang out at 100 ft above the ground on top of the rafters.

He had a lot of fun, but he came home exhausted.....

I told him to take a nap, but there was too much to get done around the place.

We finished cementing in the retaining wall.

It is definitely nothing pretty to look at, but it does the job we wanted it to, and we are pretty happy about that :)

No one is gonna see the face of the wall except for animals....so no big deal.

Then we worked on getting some more trees trimmed.

What we think are pear trees, are not looking very healthy.....

We figure we will just trim them up and see what happens this year.

If they don't do well, we will just pull them and replant them.

At one point they were all very well taken care of, so they have a good base.

But the many years of neglect have not been good for them.

We will just see what happens.

And I have no idea how to prune the cherry tree.

Well, we think it is a cherry tree :)

Again. we will just wait and see.

This spring will be when we figure what stuff need to go and what might be able to pull through.

We are gonna till up the garden space over spring break....I am excited about that.

The girls are excited about growing their own garden, full of whatever they want to grow.

They are both dead set on growing artichokes :)

It is gonna be fun.