Sharonsknitthings

Here's one more picture of grandson Jerome, working hard on a puzzle. He has quite a few and does very well on all of them. He does seem to love animals of all kinds and the puzzle pieces make the sound of the animal when the correct piece is put it. He of course can make all the sounds himself. Too cute!!!!! I especially like this picture as you can see all of his hair, which is so cool after being bald for awhile.

We've had just lovely weather for the past 4 or 5 days---a taste of spring for sure. Our house is coming along, and all the blocks have been replaced, and the builder is pouring the new floor today. It's been an adventure, and my poor flowers will never be the same.

Meantime I have some new photos of grandson Jerome, who continues to delight me beyond belief. I really cherish the weeks that I can spend taking care of him, and am so blessed to have the love and understanding of his caring parents. Here he is:

WOW!!!! Will this snow ever quit?? We got about another foot last night, and it took John and I quite a while to shovel the drive yet again. He did most of the work, but since I was anxious to get going this morning, I decided to pitch in. It's a nice sunny day with no wind, so it was easy to work up a sweat. We'll fish later in the day. Speaking of fish, John caught a really nice pike yesterday. Take a look.

We've had a cold start to March, so maybe the "comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb" will follow this spring. it's been more wintry this past couple of weeks than at any other time during the winter months.

We have been living away from our home for 3 weeks now. We are having our Michigan basement replaced, and ultimately that will be a good thing but right now it's scary and not so pleasant. The progress has been slow, since the weather has slowed down the block placement on several occasions. The digging out is over, and that was most traumatic for me, since the huge equipment had to drive right over and through my beautiful flower bed filled with old and well established perennials. Hopefully since the ground is frozen, the damage will be minimal, but there are several areas that are destroyed completely and we have no back porch at all. John will get busy on that this spring so we can get in and out of the house. I had a scare the other day as it looked like a huge scoop of dirt was plopped on my pond, but I looked carefully yesterday and it's still intact, though covered with a couple of feet of snow. Perhaps I can do some rearranging in the spring, and make the garden even more beautiful. I'll post a picture soon.