Too long.

I guess August has been busy.  I've been doing some more online legal nurse consulting.  I enjoy doing it, but it sure uses up some time.  Isabele talks, real words, non-stop.  She and Titus are playing together more and more every day.  They also bicker a lot, but that seems to be pretty normal for their ages ....

Titus found my latest knitting project - a hat for Isabele, and somehow managed to put it on, and hold the 4 attached balls of yarn.  He was quite proud of himself.  And he didn't mess up the knitting at all.  I'm still a bit amazed that he didn't pull any of the stitches off the needles.

Oh - we are working on some outdoor improvements / changes in the last couple weeks.  Brian is building us a new deck.  He started with new steps / landing out the side door - the one we use the most.  Now he's working on the rest of the deck.  It looks wonderful already.  I'll post pictures when he's done.

I decided to bite the bullet and get the dirt to make the front yard into a garden.  We had all but 10 landscape bricks that we needed to go around the front yard.  They were in the back around the deck, but are not needed with the new deck design.  So, last Friday, we had 13 tons of dirt dumped in the front yard.  Another couple days, and I think I'll have it all moved to where I want it ...

Here's the picture of the dirt pile prior to moving any of it.

 Of course the kids enjoyed playing in it while I worked on spreading it out, and moving it to a couple other locations in the yard.