It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood...

As Mr. Rogers would say.

It looks like spring has finally taken hold and hopefully the cold nights and days are behind us for awhile. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the lilacs blooming, just a perfect spring day. Who cannot love a day like today? It's been like this for the last few days now, during the day. It still got cold at night though.

Dave and I have been riding our bikes, I love my new bike by the way. Well, last night instead of riding our bikes, we decided to walk. We also decided to go in the opposite direction than we had been going. On the way, our neighbor drove by and stopped and started talking with Dave. I had my cell phone on me so I decided take some pictures while they did so. A few minutes later our neighbor decided to head on home, but right before he drove off, a big skunk passed in front of him and he pointed it out to us. Needless to say, we decided not to continue in that direction and headed back towards home ourselves. We didn't want to take the chance of it spotting us and possibly spraying. That's all we needed. I was also thinking that it was a good thing we didn't have the dogs with us because I know they would have wanted to chase the thing. This morning we were woken to them barking at another one, or maybe it was the same one; who knows how far those things travel. I tried to go back to sleep, but Angel would have none of it, so I was as I like to put it, "touched by an Angel," or licked until I got out of bed. I had to get up for personal reasons anyway, but still, I would have liked to have slept in for a little longer. Going back to bed was also an impossible dream, since I knew I wouldn't be able to fall back to sleep, so at a little after 6:00am, I was wide awake, on a Saturday no less.

Today we have plans to go up to Des Moines again. I want to stop at Lowes to check out their perennials. I'm tired of always having to replant flowers every year, but maybe I'll get some anyway. I need to clean out the flower beds tomorrow.

I need to get off of this thing, so I will see you all later. Have a great day.