Hi, everyone!
I haven’t written for a while because Grandma and Uncle David were having technical problems with my blog. When they fixed it, they decided to give my blog a new look! I hope you like it!
I thought I’d found spring, and then it snowed, and now I think I’m beginning to find it again! At least the last snow has mostly melted and my daffodil friends are back!
While I have been waiting for spring, I’ve been having a lot of other adventures, too! First, I helped Grandma prune the apple trees. We used the pole pruner to cut back the branches, and then we bundled the branches so the town could take them away. After that I looked for my spring flower friends and I found my first crocus in bloom!
I was a good helper getting ready for the travel dinner, too! I helped Grandpa choose and arrange the new set of photos for the kitchen door, then I helped him make green tea ice cream. I helped Grandma bake the Five Spice brownies and cut up the roasted beets for the kale salad. I had to be very careful with the beets, so I didn’t get pink paws!
Moose-san and Tilly came for the travel dinner! Joe-san told us we had to wear our chef hats if we wanted to help, and that was a problem for Moose-san and Tilly! Their hat was so big, it ended up wearing them! Moose-san and I introduced Tilly to all our travel friends and made sure everybody had a good time. We made sure Grandma served all the desserts, too!
During Easter week, Grandma took me to Highland Park to look for spring. It was easy to find inside Lamberton Conservatory, but I also made friends with a blooming Lenten rose in the Poets Garden outside. One of my groundhog friends came out to meet me, too!
Grandpa said it was close enough to spring that we could go back to Sodus and open up. I helped Grandma turn the water back on, using the instructions she got for Christmas. Then I checked on the shrubs. The deer ate the ends of the branches off some of the euonymous, but the cage protected the rhododendron just the way Grandpa planned! And guess what? One of our maple trees has a new fairy house!
On the way back into town, Grandma and Grandpa took me to Shadow Hill for a maple syrup open house. I got to see how maple sap is collected and turned into syrup and sugar, then Grandma let me pick some maple treats to take home. They were yummy!
Today it’s sunny and warmer, and the weatherman on the TV last night said “no more snow!” I hope that’s right!
Love,
Lion-san
We all had a good time at the Travel Dinner. Tilly and Moose-san looked funny in the chef hat! Spring is indeed coming even the grass is growing. We liked your fairy house. It looked nice with all the ducks in it. That was nice you helped open up the Sodus Bay place. Opening up can be a lot of work. At least you got to a maple sugaring place and see how maple syrup is made. We have daffodills, crocus and star flowers blooming.