Lovely Rainy Day, Everyone! It might not be raining where you are, but here in Texas where its usually BONE dry by June it is cause for celebration, our drought is ending…hopefully the cracked ground of other years fading from memory. Yippeee!! Our Fig tree, which is usually stripped leafless by grasshoppers by now is setting fruit! Whoo hoo! Its… Read more →
I bought these Daffodils five years ago in the dead of winter and forced them in my kitchen window. They were those left over bulbs you see at the closeout counter the ones singing like Olivia Newton-John “ …take and chance on me-eee!” Well they were amazing in the window and I don’t like scuffing my mower on these decorative… Read more →
Nate has quite a touch with animals even better with insects. I promise you, Grasshoppers, Flies, Mosquitoes and the occasional roach are the only insects he will allow to be mistreated around here. Everything else gets picked up and sweet talked. He is great at gardening too. He let me document a little of it when we transplanted this puffball… Read more →
I start stuff, see how it goes and sometimes don’t come back around to it. This is me synching up a few starts I left hanging. The duck babies are alive and well. Just not babies anymore. Duck Photos From Start. Mac and Cheese picture has found its recipe. Facebook is not as scary as I imagined. I have dedicated… Read more →
Hey-ya Friends! For the first time in months I woke up naturally pain free! WHOO HOO! SO Good! Yesterday I went to see Dr. Squishy aka Dr. Bishop and since I was feeling well enough to drive myself, didn’t take my pain meds. I was a little worried about the “squishy” without my little helpers, but I thought it best… Read more →
Oops! Let’s blame the meds. okay? It was me in the ER. I have just not been right since that fall off the roof, I expect. Its been, Heal, Heal, Hurt myself over nothing, and start again. Well, Thursday night, I felt well enough to go to a Christmas Party/Award Ceremony for Jack at his Do Jang. It was good,… Read more →
Heya! I had visions of Great Christmas’ happening so I hope you had lovely ones. We were together on Christmas our little group of 4 and even though we spent some of it in the ER we each had many chances to see what Christmas means and were soundly blessed by it. Its the ER nurse who will get done… Read more →
Sadly our Barn Swallows have left us, guessing its too hard to rebuild in the middle of the birthing season or they found abandon nests somewhere else. What’s This About? I want to tell you about our Nectarine Tree, Nadine. But first a little background on our quest for a nectarine tree. 10 years ago I bought a little… Read more →
I got this trouble spot out by the road, our bamboo line stops at the fence and try as I might the frontage is a mess. When we first landed here it was all native grasses, bluestem and baby bluestem and its was LOVELY, but I mowed it a couple of times and killed off all the native grasses (… Read more →
Gratitude List! 1. Thanks for all these great people I am meeting! I am upside down with happiness with the sheer creativity, generosity and smiling faces of the people I am meeting through the scrapbooking community! We are GREAT people! WHOO HOO! 2. Thanks For Incontinent Dogs. Just when I think I can’t handle another thing to be happening…. Read more →
