Another Fabulous Day

Exciting day here in Northern California. School is closed this week for "ski week", and the kids ask every day if it's still the weekend. We took them to ride their bikes and play ball at Greta's school. Greta is officially done with training wheels today! She's still a bit nervous and hit a couple of trash cans on the ride home, but she's getting it!

While gardening we found yet another California Slender Salamander

and managed to pull out the last of "the silver bastards" in the background. OK, so there are still 5 plants' roots to dig out, but I nearly passed out after digging out one, so the rest will have to wait. The problem now is what to do with the enormous amount of chopped up plants! The compost can only gets picked up every two weeks and they came this morning... We're putting a lot into the Marin compost program this year. I'm going to call a craigslist post tomorrow for free horse poop to get my own pile going in the backyard.

Followed that with an unplanned trip to the beach which was totally worth it just for Emery's reaction. I love that look when it seems like he's going to burst out of his skin. High of 20 celsius today. Nice.