…my life in the country
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25th, 2009
Lookee, lookee! Peaches! My baby tree set it’s first crop of peaches! How cool is that?! I don’t know if they’ll ripen at this early age or not, but I’m going to leave them there. The yard is really blooming these warm days. The nights are still coolish but the days have been nearly hot! [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2009
There have been three once before. but I’ve never seen four! What busy people these parents have been! :O Just wanted to share our latest family portrait.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2009
The Strawberry Man was in town! He picked me out a special flat of berries, not a bad on in the batch! And he added an extra big handfull to the basket of cherries I also bought! They smell soooooo gooood! I love strawberry season. There’s no perfume in the world as wonderful as driving [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19th, 2009
Worked in the loom shop in the morning but we spent the afternoon mowing, pruning, hauling off rocks and dirt from the site of the new deck… coming soon to a yard very near me! lol Cori and Robin ‘helped’. Cori by tripping us up with the tennis ball wherever we stepped and Robin just [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19th, 2009
They’re back in the rose bush again this spring in spite if the severe pruning I gave it this last fall. The babies are getting big, too, so I’m keeping an eye on them. When it looks like they’re going to have a go at fledging I’ll keep the cats in for a couple days [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2009
We are once again at home in the Trinity Nat’l Forest here in North California. Glad to be home but we had a wonderful time and I’ll be anxious to go again in awhile! This is a photo taken in Utah. We visited the Arches Park and drove down the Colorado River Canyon in Utah, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8th, 2009
We’re in the west again. Passed over the Divide today and are in Grand Junction, Colorado for the night. We want to visit the dinosaur museum tomorrow and then we’re headed Utah way. What a huge country we live in! We’ve been visiting parks and overlooks and taking scores of pictures. Saw the Prairie dogs [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2009
We are back in Kansas today. Randy has “barn fever” so we’re been doing 600 Interstate miles for the last two days! (The photo is on a detour for Hwy50, tho… I’m not idiot enough to stand in the middle of I-70!)Today will be a little more relaxed because I want to explore Dodge City [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4th, 2009
Okay, so I’m a little naive, but the number of people who showed up for this affair rather startled me! And Saturday started out raining nicely. It did clear up in the afternoon, but Sunday it rained all day and tho they were slower arriving they came again, in spite of the drenching weather. I [...]