Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Our cold, cold Easter

After the record-breaking warmth back in March, we're having a recurrence of a real Wisconsin spring ... COLD! It's probably not any colder than it normally would be, but it's cold enough to severely threaten our fruit crop for this year :( Last week one night when the lows were predicted in the 20s we did our first attempt at wrapping up two of our apple trees to try to keep the blossoms from freezing.

Then we did it again last night, and have tried again tonight. According to our research, our pears and plums should be okay since they blossomed and were (theoretically) pollinated a few weeks ago. The apple trees, however, are a bit later. There's not much else we can do but wait and hope. Who knows how this weather will affect our grapes, raspberries, and strawberries, to0 :( After we've run out of all of our preserved frozen veggies and fruits this winter and our grocery bill has gone up significantly, it would be sad on many levels if our yard doesn't produce any fruit this year :(


Whenever we've wrapped the trees, Anna has stolen some pieces of plastic to play with around the yard while we do our work.

But that's not our whole life. Here's a few pictures of some of the other random things we done lately.


Daddy is a much better wrestler than Mommy in the evenings :)


We managed a few trips to the zoo (one without Daddy and one with Daddy) recently. The girls like to bring Matt along because we reserve our trips on the train for when he's with us :)


I decided to insist on everyone wearing hats this spring/summer/fall and picked up some new ones that actually have been staying on the girls!


Balancing along the play area (along with playing in the sandbox) is a favorite activity.


Running and jumping on the ramps Matt set up last week has also been fun (especially in our Easter clothes).


Our attempts at an Easter picture with Kate and Anna did not produce many good photos.


And here's the family bike train that I talked about last week.

Hopefully our warm weather returns soon. We miss it!

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