Spring!

Spring made an appearance this weekend. It meant that I did lots of gardening (Mr. Honeysuckle, you may NOT go and visit the neighbour's garden. kthxbye), went for a few walks and ate my annual Creme Egg (oof...so sweet!). 

I also pruned the forsythia and brought the pruned branches in to bloom in the kitchen (and festooned them with my Easter Critters).

And then, because I have the Best Husband Ever, we made an impromptu stop at Baylham Farm to see the lambs. Unlike this chap, we didn't get to ride on a sheep.

I did, however, get to hold a lamb. A warm, wooly, sleepy (but still nibbling on my sleeve), soft, elbow-filled lamb. Pardon my outfit - we had been scraping the boat so I was in epic grubbies. All the better for lamb snuggles.

Bliss.

If anyone needs a sheep farmer, please call.

The BBC

This week, on the BBC (cue dramatic music): Lambwatch, LIVE! Five, one-hour, (mostly) live programs, direct from a lamb shed in Wales. Honestly. No, really, I'm not kidding.

Where will YOU be at 8pm?

More Ginger Ale

I wasn't feeling well at all on Friday. Achy, a v. unhappy stomach, and general ickyness. We left work a little bit early, and the ickyness continued. So much so that on Saturday, John brought home a Mr. Men thermometer and some flowers, along with some ginger ale. Which, obviously, made me feel much better.

 Yellow chrystanthemumbles. Very nice. And rather springy.

I finally found our Easter decorations, too. My favorite is this little chap. I mean, c'mon. A bunny, riding on a carrot, with a purple egg for company? What's not to like? Now I just need to snaffle a spring-y twig/stick thing for the front hall table so I can hang all of the decorations on it. Yes, there are more.

In honor of spring, and the fact that I was feeling better, and the glorious sunshine we had today, we went to visit the lambs at Baylham House farm. I always feel a little weird going there without a small child, but nobody seemed to notice. The lambs are several weeks old, so rather than being in the lambing shed, they were out in the fields, springing! Ok, not this guy, but what a face!

James managed to catch this action shot - the little guy in the center of the picture has all four feet in the air. SPRING lamb! I could have stood there for hours, but the boys were getting cold, so we walked back to the car. Which has now been washed and vacuumed. Spring, indeed.

Lambies

Two exciting things yesterday. First, I finished washing all of our windows with the new and fabulous E-cloth. My mom has always washed windows with an ammonia-water solution, a squeegee and old (clean) cloth diapers. I can't stand the smell of ammonia, so I've been trying out other methods. We went with the windex and water route last fall, which basically made the windows smeary and still pretty dirty. It took forever and there were lots of drips of dirty water on the windowsills when I was done.

The M-i-L gave me one of her back-issues of Good Housekeeping, and in it, they reviewed the E-cloth. The reviewer couldn't find enough superlatives for it, and they recommended it as the invention of the year. Good enough for me, then! The windows are SO clean now, and not streaky or yucky at all. Granted, the (washable) white dirt-grabbing towel is filthy, but I think that's the idea. We bought the 'window cleaning kit' from Lakeland, which includes a spray bottle, the 'cleaning' cloth, and the 'polishing' one. They're kind of expensive, but for the fact that I will always have clean windows (and mirrors) and will never have to buy Windex again, it's worth it.

The second exciting thing yesterday was that John and I went to the Baylham House Farm for a walk. The lambs have been appearing in the fields on the way to work, and I checked their website and found out that yesterday was a 'lambing day.'

I LOVE lambs. As in, I can spend 45 minutes in the lambing pen watching them. And then I'm mystified when John says, "Can we look at something else, please?" They were so funny yesterday - there were some that were only a few days old and were v. bouncy and unsteady on their feet.


We saw the llamas when we walked around the rest of the farm - it was pretty late in the day so most of the screaming children had left.

John loved these double-decker goats:

Here I am, with my very own lamb. So warm and soft. I could have sat there for hours.


And Kristen is having a macro-photo month - this one is for her! A glorious daffodil, with raindrops from a few minutes before still on the flower.