This new house

Great, I come back from Paris and it's Spring. Or almost, anyway.
The deer are stripping the bark from the lilacs I planted last summer, there is some kind of ugly growth on many of our tree branches, and the pond appears to have eaten the path.
We're also attempting to further reduce our consumer addiction, we have a lot of jeans that need recycled (not as jeans, possibly as fishing nets) and we've started planting seeds indoors already. So I'm going to be trying a lot of very strange ideas and I'll record what works (and what doesn't) here.