It is so great to be outside working again! I have missed the exercise, fresh air and beauty of the Vermont spring. Next we need to take our bikes out for a ride. Just wish the hills were not so high, especially on the way up!
We are enjoying the new missionary couple (The Peach's). They are very easy to work with and are so sweet. Sister Peach loves to tell jokes and you know I can't remember a joke for more than a day or so. So she could tell the same one over & over. We are going to take them sight seeing Saturday and to a community yard sale. Like the rest of us when we first got here, they need bowls, etc.
Couldn't sleep, so thought I would update the Blog, but now I can't think of anything interesting to write. We lead a very boring life!
The next couple of weeks we are going to be very busy. We will be planting spring flowers, serving a luncheon to the construction crew who are working on the chapel, and getting everything ready for the big Memorial Program. Hopefully I will be able to get some good pictures to share.
The Mitchell's have very high expectations for everything, it puts pressure on us all to have everything looking nice. Which we want, as well, but don't have the time to do! They are not as layed back as the McKinnon's, so Tim & Gene are rebelling abit. The Vorwaller's & Sanford's are suppose to be coming back up around the 30th of May for the baptism of Ken Sypher. He has committed to baptism and is surprising his wife on her birthday. The Ward is excited!
We planted the allysum up the stairs to Monument today and then after lunch, had to go to Lebanon Chapel to work on ground there. So had a big day & are pooped! We will get the rest of the flowers next week. We (the ladies) have been going to Dawn's office to help out (3 times now). I really think we are going to be too busy to continue thru the summer. I told her we would be really busy this next 2 weeks because of planting & Memorial Day program. The pansies are doing very well and the hosta, fern and astillbe we planted last year seems to all be coming up. The spring bulbs are beautiful right now.

Another farm tour...this time we took the new missionary couple, the Peach's (from Colorado) to visit the Pease's dairy farm. Grace is in our Primary class, so took a few pictures of her with one of her favorite cows "Rosie".
It has been very warm here already and the 90 degree weather is scaring me to think what this summer might be like. The black flies are already out and swarming around our faces, dive bombing into our eyes and mouth. They are pesky and biting flies that arrive in New England in May. Hello bug spray!!

We live just off Dairy Hill, which used to have lots of dairy farms, now there are just a few left. This is one of them. Our Ward has quite a number of families who still milk cows, have chickens and do the whole farm thing. They are great people and work very hard.