Orchids

We made what has become our monthly trip to Biltmore this weekend. The Sehorns from OK were in town so it made a nice destination since the weather on the mountain was, well, let's just say less than ideal. We'll also say that I'm concerned about the budding plants in my garden as they may get a bit of frost bite. Not exactly May weather here from what I understand. We managed to tour the entire house which was a lot of fun and went a lot quicker without the gazillion people there. Since it is in the middle of the "Biltmore Blooms" festival we expected it to be crowded, but it really wasn't crowded at all. We say a ton of orchids in the winter solarium in the house and then also in the conservatory. Here are some of the pictures from the conservatory.

A also managed to use a public toilet for the first time. This isn't big news, but is exciting because it was our huge hurdle to getting her completely potty trained. She wouldn't go on a public toilet that didn't have her seat to save her life. So much so that both Chris and I have contemplated making a portable, disposable small seat that would fit kind of like seat covers do, but would have enough support that a small child could sit on it and use the toilet.

Chris has some great pictures because his grandma gave A a sucker the size of her face. Grandma originally wanted to get A a sucker that had a diameter larger than A's torso, but we talked her down to the small one. A knew exactly what to do with it, and since it was mainly sugar it just started falling a part. We will have to finish it sometime when we can hose A off with the garden hose. Though right now we can simply stick her outside and she'll get a good dose of water. We have some localized flooding and thankfully our basement isn't yet. We have had lights flicker, it is mainly just rain, rain, and more rain, no thunder or anything crazy.

Anyway, it has been a fun exhausting weekend here. I hope everything is going well where you are.