By Julie

Monday was a very special day. My sister gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Bethany Noelle! Mother and daughter are doing well.

It's been a veritable baby boom in our circle. Not only do I have a new niece, but in the last few months FIVE of my cousins have also had babies. Among our friends there are two new babies plus two more on the way. Wowie!


In other news, we finally hired a gardener. Not finally as in we finally gave into peer pressure but finally as in we finally found one willing to take our business. After a year of dead end inquiries and referrals, I finally found someone by calling a number in a mailer. During their first visit we watched surreptitiously through the window as they surveyed our front yard and laughed at its awful state, but after two visits the yard already looks worlds better. Hooray!

For the back yard we've got different plans. I've successfully sprouted seeds for a bunch of fruits and vegetables, the majority of which have already been moved into pots, but eventually they'll all need to be planted in the ground somewhere back there. I also gave up on the old batch of sunflower seeds that refused to grow and sprouted a new batch that's doing very well, but instead of planting them in the back I think I will eventually plant them in the front, but maybe wait until they look a little less weed-like to avoid confusing the gardeners.

Kevin convinced me to sign up for Netflix so that I don't end up working all through my leave. Here's the first batch of movies I watched:



By the way, did you know yogurt containers are not recyclable? I looked it up a while back and was shocked to learn type 5 plastics are not easily recyclable. This means you can't just dump it in your curbside bin. This recent Slate article explains it pretty well. Update: It turns out our trash disposal company will take all type 1 through 5 plastics in curbside recycling! Yay! Check with your local trash disposal service and maybe you'll get some good news too!

Labels: environment, gardening, kids, movies

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