Surprise Bug: Surprise Author

I don’t know why we didn’t think to do this, but we never turned over that surprise bug we found, many months ago.
Today, as we were walking out, Liz picked up the stone bug and found something interesting.
I don’t know why we didn’t think to do this, but we never turned over that surprise bug we found, many months ago.
Today, as we were walking out, Liz picked up the stone bug and found something interesting.
At some point while we were away in Georgia, someone painted and placed this lovely, yellow ladybug stone by our birdbath. We didn’t see it at first, but there it was… resting on a brick, in our front yard.
Liz and I were walking home from the grocery store, she grabbed my arm suddenly. She whispered to me that there was a bunny near our front yard, but I couldn’t see him at all.
In our front porch, there’s an Autumn Clematis that’s gotten… pretty sizable. It started small, but has gradually grown bigger each year… and by the time Fall rolls around, it tends to take over the porch railing.
A funny story: we moved the fountain to the driveway, so I could clean it and so Liz could reposition the bricks. Several times throughout the day, we watched birds swoop to th emiddle of our front yard, only to pull up suddenly and fly away.
It was clear they were looking for water, and suddenly seeing us and a missing fountain, did an aerial U-turn. It happened so many times, Liz and I recognized the pattern. It was really funny to see.
When I got near the front yard, I paused… and saw this guy also paused. Somewhat looking over his shoulder at me, warily.
I felt like I was blocking his access to the backyard, and tried to make a wide berth. He seemed like he was waiting for me to move away a little.
Despite us getting a lot done yesterday, Liz and I both decided on doing some more house work today. Because of course we did. Who needs weekends?
This wasn’t the parkway, which seems to be a more “public” area. This was my front yard. They literally walked a solid ten feet from the sidewalk into the yard, did the thing, and left. And this was, by the evidence, not a small dog.
I got to break up the monotony a bit, by helping move bags of mulch up front. While I didn’t have much to show, our front yard looks great again.
Back home, we finally set the chicken in the front yard. Prior to that though, Liz added a small Tile tracker, out of concern that someone else might come along and love the chicken as much as she does… and deem it worthy of theft.
As the weather improves, I suspect we’ll be wanting to do more outside work… given how much time we’re spending indoors.
Our main goal: looking for a new tree for the front yard, to replace the Japanese Maple that died last year.
The whole time we were outside, the sky looked like it was going to start pouring rain. Luckily for us, the weather reports held true and we were able to work without a drop. The dark skies did add a little urgency while we worked though, as it felt like we were always racing the rain.
Today was a yard day, with Liz working on weeding and planting in the front yard and me mowing the lawn in back.
Bob and Julie came by over the weekend, and spent a long Sunday afternoon helping us work on the house. While Julie and Liz were outside working on the yard, I was down in the basement with Bob.