After 1200 miles of driving and sleeping in three different beds it is good to be home.

My magnolias are coming out!

Although home is a bunch of work. Unpacking, laundry, catching up chores, re-planting some plants outside (it’s a good idea to check your landscape design before you plant something), and painting a bedroom.

It’s fun too. I read, went on a bike ride with H, and played in the sandbox with the kids. The kids were mostly happy to be home, they had a friend come over and lots more to do than they had sitting in a car. For 1200 miles, the kids were troopers on this trip. Hardly a word of complaining.

This is a picture just for reference. We are mostly through planting the area by the fence with a food forest this year. I’ve planted grapes, apple tree, plum tree, bush hazelnuts, strawberries, asparagus, rhubarb, raspberries, and honeyberries in this area. We have a few more fruit trees coming soon.