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April 2011

Exciting! It’s Almost Time

by Kay~Kacey on 4/22/2011

dyed easter eggs

Yes!!! It’s almost time for the annual Easter Egg Shooting Extravaganza! Or this one! Or this one at the beach! We’re having a gaggle of the family over to eat too much and shoot many, many eggs. My sister is in charge of “the target” this year. Who knows what she might come up with!

easter eggs

Can’t wait for the festivities and fierce competition friendly rivalry of the egg shoot. Photos to come next week! Enjoy your weekend.

Things that Annoy Me

by Kay~Kacey on 4/21/2011

…or things that you don’t think of when buying a house…

sunsetNo matter where I move around to at The Love Nest…this silly tower is in the middle of my sunset photos.

tower in front of sunsetNo matter if I move to the left or the right. There it is. Wrecking my sunset photo! I’m serious people!!! Let this be a warning to you when you buy a house!! Make sure there isn’t a tower wrecking your view of the sunset or sunrise. I think that realtors should have to disclose this and point this out to you, if you don’t happen to look at the house at sunset and see the BIG PROBLEM.

sunset with tower cloned out

I foresee a lot of cloning in my sunset picture taking future.

(This was a public service announcement for anyone planning on buying a house. You’re welcome.)

Reforesting the Neighborhood

by Kay~Kacey on 4/20/2011

So, you know the New Love Nest? Well, we back up to some guy’s land. Land that the city got rights to to put in a sewer system, but ending up stripping the land completely. :nono: Really who does that in a liberal, conserve-the-land type town??

tree slips

So SuperGuy got permission from the guy who owns the land to reforest it. He ordered trees…well, slips of trees, from the Missouri Conservation Department. They came this week. 300 of them…

tiny treesWe planted them along the creek and all along the stripped out area. Unfortunately we still have about 150 more trees to plant… :mad2:

break from planting treesIt was hard work!

stripped out landThis is the big path of stripped out land the city left in their wake… :wallbash: Yes, we have a lot of trees to plant…

sewer systemThis is lovely part of the sewer system that is above ground… :doh: Well, that is getting hidden with cedars…and I don’t mean slips of cedars, I mean real live hide-me-now cedars.

It really annoys me when developers/cities strip out way more than needed when they do a project…and leave it like that. Hopefully it will all look really nice…in about, what? 5-10 years??? :clap:  (if we get the other 150 trees planted this week…)