Morning Glory's Tunnel and Sunflowers

 Top pic is the Morning Glory Tunnel it is about 3ft tall. It looks alot smaller in the pic but its a really good size!
The bottom pic is where my sunflowers are planted, I ran out of fences and used the girls outside chairs to cover over the sunflowers so they would not get run over by children and dogs. My first round of sunflowers I set out and came back out in the morning and the rabbits ate every.single.one. So I had to start over and re-grow them.
                             

Chalk Board Wall

We made a Chalk Board wall!! I bought a sheet of plywood. It was 4X8, then I used my circular saw and cut it to 3x7. Then I put two coats of "Bulls Eye 123 Primer" on front and back and the four sides. I was hoping it would help keep the water out. I Bought Martha Stewart Chalkboard paint in grey *It is not so "grey", but it matched the fence* I put two coats of the chalkboard paint on pretty thick, It used about a bottle in a half by the time I was done. My plan was to hang it over the two horizontal post across the back of the fence but when I got it up there it was so heavy I was worried about support so I sat it on the bottom horizontal bar to help hold it up. Then I drilled two holes on each side so they were above and below the horizontal bar on the backside and looped the rope threw two times and I was done! Lilly helped me with it all except the cutting with circular saw... For obvious reasons I hope... This board has been threw several big rain storms and held up great!! So I am pleased! We did this during our Garden unit week. It sits right behind the girls swing set and they have had the best time with all there friends playing school. Last week we were doing Fairy week and all the girls played "Fairy School" and made wands and got the fairy wings out, their was 8 or "Fairies" in my backyard! Cute!

For The Birds

We made this for the birds the other day. We have had so many birds in the backyard,  especially robins trying to make nest's. I had intended to make this for the first day of spring but my mom came down with a nasty virtago virus and we all focused on taking care of her. So last week we got around to getting it together. Lilly and Raley cut all the yarn and then we hung it next to their playhouse! We hope to see lots of colorful nest around! Next year and many more after we will do this on the first day of spring!

This is the original link:

http://www.fiberfarm.com/2011/03/the-first-day-of-spring?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fiberfarm%2Ffeeds+%28Fiber+Farm%29