October 31st, 2009
The rain finally stopped late yesterday afternoon and the sun peeked through the clouds to let us know that it was still around.
The view from our front yard:
The neighbor’s trees have already dropped all their leaves, but ours are still trying to hold on:
I imagine we’ll be raking them up over the next couple of [...]
May 12th, 2009
On Saturday, my sister-in-law, niece and I trekked up to Libertyville for the Lake County Native Plant Sale. Because they only allow a certain number of people inside at one time, I wanted to get there early. We arrived about 15 minutes before it opened but we still weren’t among the first group and had [...]
June 5th, 2008
We went to the Public Works facility in Morton Grove to pick up mulch provided at no charge to residents. The PO left a kiddie pool behind, so we threw that in the back of our VW Passat Wagon to contain the mulch along with a couple of shovels. As we started to shovel our [...]