Periodic update

Life has been busy with work, and kids, and pets, and politics... It's fun to look at old posts and see how the garden has changed over the last year or two though....

This was from three weeks ago. I should take an updated pic- the bushy 'weeds' in the xeriscape Thunderturf lawn have turned out to be Indian blankets and purple horsemint which is lovely.

I've had some lovely spring flowers including my self-seeding poppies and a gloriously large orange mallow bush.

And we added a puppy (Sasha, acting well behaved in this pic) to the menagerie of chickens, cats and kids. She keeps me walking in the neighborhood, and gets us outside often- which is great.