Zones and Rhodes

Washington Rhode

The official state flower of Washington is the Rhododendron, shortened to Rhode (road ie). Rhodes bloom in March... and they are starting to bloom now. It is so much fun to see them start to come out... first the pink ones and later there will be lots of colors. I like the salmon colored ones because they are such an unusual color.

Cherry Blossom

Normally Cherry and apple trees don't blossom until April but they are also beginning to bloom now around the city. It seems like each of the trees have a white or pink blossoms. They will stay for a couple to four weeks in bloom and then they drop their petals. The ground looks like it has pink snow all over it. I like it when a tree with white blooms are intermingled with a tree with pink blooms. As you probably know, Washington is known for their apples and, of course, we have an Apple Blossom Festival which you can see HERE.

There are also Apple Country Tours of the apple orchards on a bus for those of you interested in learning more about our Washington apples.

Today I went to Zones to do an education fair. It is in a city near us so it wasn't too bad traveling to the event. Afterwards, Susie and I went to lunch. I only had an hour before I had to be back to the office for a meeting with the web designer. We are going to be launching a new website soon so we have to have meeting on calendars and what we want on our page etc.

Kari still isn't feeling well. She doesn't look good either. She is so tired and she was so sad today. So she came by my work and I took her to the doctors. They took blood and gave her chest x rays to see what is going on. The x rays seemed to be fine and we will see on Monday what the blood test results are. She took Riley with her since James will have his 4 yr old son over tonight too. I have Brady which leads me into another story that just happened...

While I have been writing this post, Brady has been sitting next to me in his high chair. He had been eating a few things while watching me and watching TV. He finished eating and was telling me about his finger. I wasn't really paying attention but I realized that something was wrong. He doesn't speak clearly yet so I thought that he had pinched it or something. I went to kiss his finger but my nose (clear now from my cold last week) told me NOT to and so I backed up for a closer look. Yes... it was what you are thinking it would be. It was a close call. He used his finger as a "dip stick" to see what was in his diaper. Luckily ladies I did not kiss it. However, a lesson in paying attention. YUCK He went right into the bath tub and is now in bed. YUCK again. Don't just kiss anything you grandmas.

Hug and Kisses :-)