Nice blogs from everybody. We've been back from Hawaii 2 weeks now. Spring is in the air. Jim and I've worked on the yard. Susan's busy with decorating. The pool is open. Starting temp was 50. We're not heating the entire pool yet, but we just fire up the attached hot tub when we want to and it's ready quickly.

For you birders we have a wood duck apparently nesting in a natural hole in one of our black locusts, about 50 feet off the ground, and only 10 feet behind our pool.

We've got 7 bluebird houses up. They've come and gone several times during and since winter but haven't settled in.

The creek is in heavy flow. In our earth bridge we have 2, 18 in. conduits, but it would take 5 to accomodate all the water so it just flows around the bridge onto the lower land then back into the stream.

We want to arrange a family cookout soon. We're working on the date.