May 1

May Day...no, not the distress call, just the first of May. The flowers are blooming everywhere, my tomatoes are small and green and the peaches are too many for the small tree. We planted onions, squash, okra, one eggplant, peppers, and lots of herbs this year early enough for us to maybe have some. It is so nice to see everything alive once more. The days are heating up and we've had to turn on the A/C this week for the first time. The first picture is of the grow boxes and now all the tomatoes are almost to the top of the fence. I love spring time!

Tonight is the Celtic Woman concert at Nokia. I love their music and the art direction is gorgeous and they sing beautifully. Much different from last month's Elton John concert in Austin which was "FAB-U-LOUS" in its own way.

A dear parent and friend from school is a professional framer and framed the Hip to be Square alphabet I stitched last summer. I have never had anything professional framed before and there is indeed a difference in what she does and what I can do. It is just perfect! All through my teaching years, I have made friends with some of the parents of my kids but Brigitte is absolutely the best! She helps out with our Fabulous Fridays even though her youngest is no longer involved. She had the kids create 3-D pictures on recycled tiles and helped every one of the 50+ kids frame them as she would with backing and hangers. All day they walked around with them as if they were the Mona Lisa! Doesn't it look nice! You can click on the picture to make it larger.

Jack is still wearing his "collar of shame" since he won't leave his poor tail alone. We noticed his chewing one night and were horrified to see he had chewed the underside bare. Off to the vet for pills and the collar and a week later he is finally doing better. It's hard to watch them feel bad since they don't know what is going on.

Four more weeks of school. It hardly seems possible that another year has gone by. We only have to look forward to the usual end of year acitivities: the Travis 10 Year Party, picnics, Fabulous Friday, gardening, and then it's over until August.