Signs of Spring

Over the weekend it was warm enough to play outside although not warm enough to do it without suitable warm gear.  Although the snow fort has well and truly disappeared Jacob has decided that it still makes a good den.  There is a generator, a super-laser and a craft table in it.  Last week he and Marissa spent a long time collecting moss and sprinkling it around the perimeter, I asked them what it was, assuming it was some sort of enemy deterrent or alarm system and they looked at me like I'd just escaped from the funny farm and said "It's moss".  That told me.  Here is Jacob pointing at the generator.

At the weekend our property manager came and spent a couple of hours raking up leaves and mending the front lawn, he says that the alien marks under the snow may have been made by a skunk!  Underneath the leaves are our first little signs of spring, we put up twig barricades to try to protect them from trampling little feet.  If you can tear your eyes from the vision in puce and look really carefully below Rose's feet you can see the beginning of some daffodils.