And So It Begins...

On Friday, the girls had 2 hours of school before being dismissed for summer vacation.  We attended the annual "End of School" party at our friends' house, with a bunch of other kids, and about 1300 water balloons and pizza.  Here they are crossing the line between "School" and "Summer."

 JP and I have been working on a bunch of projects for the upcoming season.

We moved the lower fence in the garden up about 20-25 feet, and took out the bottom 2 raised beds.  I just couldn't handle all of the garden on my own!  We have covered the strawberries and blueberries against bird predation, and I have picked strawberries at least 3 times.

My asparagus bed is now out in the open,

surrounding by netting to keep the deer out.

This weekend we have been trying to get the pool opened.  The stairs in the pool have broken the past 2 years, and this time were un-fixable.  We are building a small deck to attach a new ladder to.  This was all we managed to accomplish all weekend, including 2 trips to the hardware store for supplies.  The posts are pounded 3 feet into the ground, and the frame of the decking is bolted to the posts.  We still need to attached the ladders in and out, and will be putting PVC fencing all around the pool so that we can install the basketball hoop and volley ball net that JP got for Father's Day 3 years ago, and won't have to worry about losing the balls!

In addition, there has been plenty of mowing and weeding going on.

Next week, L has BBall camp, and we need to do the summer clothes shopping.

Zippidee doo dah - we're off into summer!