Black Eyed Pigz

The weather has been heating up for the past few weeks here in South Carolina.  We’ve had our garden planted since the end of March and have already harvested a lot of romaine lettuce and spinach.  While we wait on the onions and broccoli to come in, we’ve planted our Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Bell peppers and Jalapeno Peppers.

Some of the best parts of living in South Carolina are also the simplest.  Sure, we get blasted with pollen every Spring, a pollen so heavy that it causes allergies to go into overdrive, coats every surface with a snot-yellow dust and when the breeze blows, you can see clouds of it chasing down the road.  Aside from that however, we get early blossoms on the trees and flowers, it’s green and comfortable from about Mid-March straight through until October every year.

We plant a garden, open the pool and start on our outdoor home projects.  Most recently, I built a small platform near the pool to allow us to climb in and out safely.  The plastic ladder that came with the pool was just too slippery and dangerous for everyone in my opinion and we decided it was time to make something much more attractive and sturdy.  Still need to get the stairs built, but it’s otherwise ready to go.

My 3 year long deck project is finally coming to a close as well.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a fancy deck by any means, but, with everything else that we keep doing around the house, it’s the one project that gets put on the back burner every time.  I do plan to have the railings finished by Summer this year.

We also get the start of Spring sports for the boys.  My 10 and 7 year old boys are running track, and have both placed in the top 4 for the mile, and the 400 yard races so far.  Our youngest son, who will be 6 in May is playing his third season of soccer and seems to really be taking to it alot this year.  He’s finally becoming aggressive on the field and is understanding the game.

All 3 of them will be playing Pop Warner football this fall, the first season for the youngest, second season for the 7 year old and the 4th season for the 10 year old.  We’ve been doing registration and such since March with the team, and somehow I’m the President of the organization this year.  With 7 divisions of play, we’ll have nearly 150 children on our team for the 2010 season.

It’s always busy at our house, but it seems more so in the Spring.  I guess after being couped up indoors for the winter, we can’t wait to get back outdoors and keep trying to improve our home, our lives and our souls.

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