Outdoor excitement!

Okay, so the term 'excitement' is all relative. But because it's May and it's hotter inside than outside and I'm too cheap to turn on the air conditioner, we've spent a lot of time outside the last few days and here are the pictures. Yesterday we were in forced exile at home because after mowing the lawn, I locked my keys in the garage and well, with no keys you can't really go anywhere. Oops. (For the record, mowing the lawn doesn't count as excitement.) At least I didn't have to go to work and was able to do a lot from home. Ultimately it ended up being a good thing because I got a lot done, and Frankie didn't seem to mind.

Frankie loaded the bird feeder and in the process left a lovely layer of 'birdseed fertilizer' on our barren backyard. So far I've not seen any birds approach it, but I did see a bird eating something in the middle of the street today, so the birds are around. Maybe they just aren't privy to it yet.

This picture was taking as Frankie was weaving in and out of the bushes in our front yard. They're just the right height to make a sort of maze for him.

Frankie's new thing is watering and feeding the plants. I've had to hide the plant food because he literally killed two ground cover plants at the other house by throwing handfuls of food on them. It appears that gluttony is good for neither humans nor plants. Now he just comes to me with the watering can and begs for water, which he mostly dumps on the ground. And pay no attention to the state of my Stargazer Lily. It's actually doing better and I try to keep Frankie away from it. The other plants on my porch are all herbs, so they're pretty hardy and mostly toddler-proof.

One other thing we've tried lately is watercolor. Frankie loves it. I guess the farther away you get from the paint, the more satisfaction derived from getting it onto the brush and creating line art.