A nice change of pace at digsite

For a family living in south florida, we sure spend an aweful lot of time indoors in a closed house breathing stale air. If I had to guess how many days we actually stepped foot in our yard since moving in four years ago for purposes other than walking our dog after the fence blew down I’d have say maybe 20 times.

But today, since the weather has been cool, we shut off the A/C and openned up our windows & doors and let the kids out to play. After getting a caramel machiatto I got my laptop and sat in our patio with them. It’s so nice out here but it’s hard to read under such bright conditions when you’re not used to it. My eyes are tired! But I’m not complaining. Not really. It’s rare that I sit out here like this. This might have been the 10th time. Yep, I think that’s a good guess.

Maya has been in her exersaucer gazing at different objects and babbling and Jada has been all over the yard picking little flowers, dried sticks, playing with dirt, and picking green oranges off the trees. I had to ask her to stop after about the 12th orange, tho. Our yard is a good size but it rarely gets used. After hurricane Wilma it hadn’t been very pretty anymore but I want to get it back into shape and make it more child friendly too. We need a swing, a slide and some flowering plants again. Our old bouganvellias were so pretty too But my favorite was that Plumeria tree. Too bad they’re all gone now. I’m glad I took all those pictures of them, though. I still like looking at those old photos.

Here’s a few of them (damn hurricanes!)

Bougainvilleas