Ya. It's been busy.

It turns out that from now until long after we retire that May is going to be a busy month.

The migratory birds will make sure of that. Oh, and Mother's Day. And Sherry's birthday. And Mike's. And Mom's. And Sherry's Dad's. Yikes!

We've been having a great time hosting Birders for most of the month. A couple of the couples were all the way from Quebec, which is wonderful! I had a chance to brush off some very rusty French phrases.

One morning I greeted our Francophone visitors with a hearty "bonjour!" and they almost doubled over laughing. I really hope they were laughing with me rather than laughing at a poor Anglophone's struggle to embrace their beautiful language… In any case they seemed to enjoy our little morning exchanges and three or four phrases came back to me.

We had guests here on Sherry's birthday and she happened to mention that I was cooking her a special dinner tomorrow night because of her birthday. The next morning (her birthday) we found a present on the table. It was a wonderful basket with tasty goodies inside!

It is so nice hosting a Bed and Breakfast. The guests are all so pleasant and it's just a wonderful Dream Come True.

We can't wait to see you here. We know it's Bound to Please!

We're almost there.

The Solar Power Project's meter is installed (and spinning backwards), the project is hooked up and Government Certified to be safe.

Now we just need a contract (which won't be for another week!)

We also planted another 400 trees in our lot. Some of them were to replace the ones that died, others were just because we could. We now have a Black Walnut section of our lot – they had to be segregated from the other trees due to the poison that they release in their leaves when they fall.

So, they have their own little corner of the playground and have been strictly forbidden to wander around the property.

We installed these little trees the day before we flew out of the country for a week's vacation. May is a very busy month for us and we like to set aside the last week of April for ourselves, to just rest and get away.

It was a really nice trip and we ran into some really nice people there – pretty much the same as always. We didn't meet any The Price Is Right winners this time (we did last year!) but they were fun none-the-less.    

We can't wait to see you here!

Our solar array is finally in the air.

Now we wait.

Apparently the entire system has to be inspected by a guy from the province and there's only one guy and he's on vacation for six months of the year. (Or something like that… it could be that the electrical guys are behind and just telling me stories).

In any case the machine is in the air and all hooked up internally, just the wire going to the grid isn't installed and I'll need a second power meter for them to register how much power I'm selling to the grid.

They call the day that we hook up the lines to the grid 'day two'. More like day one hundred and eighty two. We've been doing this since November 18 of last year (that was the day that we received approval to break ground).

I'm sure that it'll happen, it just doesn't seem to be happening quickly enough… sigh.

In other news – I have leaves on my oak trees! They are so cute – not quite as cute as last year, but almost cute-as-a-button.

The baby bunnies are out in full force. Now that I've been mowing more of my lawn and letting less of it be 'naturalized' there are fewer places for the baby bunnies to hide. We almost wiped out a warren entrance with the mower this past weekend. Whew.