I decided to start a blog here because I feel like I can't completely share the blog I have on journal space. I want to be able to get to know other bloggers that go to my church and I thought this might be another way to do that. I have never really been that good at blogging, journaling etc. I tend to write down to much random stuff I do instead of things I am pondering or things that are actually interesting....
If you are wondinger what "brown house in the big woods" means, its sort of a spin off of a book title I read when I was younger, "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I always like those stories, and now finally I have my own house in the big woods. Only I can't exactly say "little house", it would have to be "Big house in the Big woods" and that just didn't have the same ring to it. So since my house is brown I decided to go with that.
We are trying to start up some landscaping. We have sooo many plans for our home and area that it seems like it will take forever. When you go up our long winding drive there is a small trickling stream on one side that will one day trickle over rocks and make little water falls. On the other side of the drive is a big hill that goes up to the house. We are clearing out the underbrush, dead trees and mess to make it look more inviting. Then around the house we want to landscape and build a deck. All of this is just dreams, but that is what my husband and I are spending our evenings and weekends planning right now since the weather is warm.
I LOVE spring! I have started noting each new little thing that appears during spring. I started this last year. I note the first day I see green in our woods. This is always on the small underbrush among the trees. About a week later, the tree leaves start budding. This year the green underbrush started coming out on April 1st, the day after our first really warm day. April 13th is when the leaf buds started emerging.
We have a few red buds mixed in our woods, precisely about 5 or 6. They add this purple touch to the emerging leaf colors.
Enough rambling.....
I hope this blog will be the start of something interesting....
