Spring Is Sprung

Spring Is Sprung
The Grass Is Riz

I Wonder Where the Flowers Is?
Everything is signs of Spring

Little Boid Is On The Wing

My Boid ain't that Absoid!

I Thought The Wings Was On the Boid!

-- My Grandad quoting his High School Teacher.

Well, I had a great birthday complete with dancing lessons and long awaited patio furniture! All of it was a surprise by Jay. The birds find the furniture a perfect target to poop on though, so its me verse them with my water sprayer on jet. That jet setting can hit a bird from 40 feet away!

Spring has been here for a while and with summer upon us, the plant life on Windbrook is in full swing. After spending countless hours out in the yard: flowers are in bloom, trees are trimmed, the grass green, and my contact dermitis is back. yes, its back. If you knew me last year you are laughing because I had contact dermititis last year, twice, and had no idea where it came from. This year however, I have found the culprit.

Exhibit A)

This is the raging vine of poison ivy that has been growing along our fence since we moved in 2 summers ago. It also has pretty white flowers that bloom in the spring. Mom thought it was pretty too, so I decided to trim it up this past weekend.

Exhibit B)

A close up of the leaves on our vine

Exhibit C) A picture of real poison ivy. See the resemblence?!

Exhibit D & E) The rash on my forhead from where the leaves touched. Other areas are affected too, but this was the funniest idea we could come up with at work

We are still trying to figure out how to kill the vine because it is so huge. I am more amazed at how the people that lived there before us did not know that that
was growing there. So, if you are ever out in your yard and a pretty vine with flowers catches your attention, make sure you don't touch it before you are sure it isn't going to be a spitting image of the first picture of poison ivy you find online. :)

-- Heather