what has been keeping us so busy

These two little monkeys:

A bit of home improvement (a new door):

And the intoxication of spring:

late as usual

and not even fashionably. r1 and I were talking the other day and an interesting question came up. If we had a blog that we knew our family and friends were reading, would we have more fun, simply for the sake of having something to post about? I think we tentatively decided that the answer would probably be yes. So, in an effort to spice up our otherwise pretty routine and boring lives (doubled by the fact it is winter and we ran out of indoor things to do in November), here we go....