Good Friday

 This is the cabin that Laura's bunch stayed in near Ponca.  Sure was easier than camping.

 I plowed my garden as I could see some weeds coming up.  The empty space is where I am going to plant an entire row of squash.  If we tire of it, the chickens love anything that has seeds in it.  Larry said after good friday you can plant squash, but I think good Friday is really early this year.

Greta's Got It

Greg took Clayton and Greta to the park and Greta practiced.  She told her Mom "to ride really well you have to tighten up your legs like you are going to get a shot!"

Wildflowers In Ponca Wilderness

Scenes Near Ponca, AR

 I may have some pictures from the last time Astrid sent them.  Ponca Elk herd are resting here.

Hiking Near Ponca

Laura and her entire family hiked the wildernesses around Ponca for three days.  I have divided the pictures into categories all these have people in them.  Astrid sent me 10 she saved to her phone of scenes and I will post them at another time.

Spring Break Success

Greta has learned to ride her bike this week.  Doing really good for a little 5 year old.

 Erin's iris are blooming and they are so beautiful.  Some flower thief might try digging one up.

 Astrid is fisishing up Fleta's three teacher gifts.  You see her tools.  The Sharpie and the paint.  They are turning out fabulous.   All that little detail.  Those Green Forest teachers should love the gift.

My Favorite Statue

New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

First Job For Astrid

 I call the top photo the "pout" and the bottom "natural girl".  Astrid is working for a local dress shop.  She applied earlier but I think she needed to be 16 which she will hit April 7.  It is not an hourly job.  I know she wears the stores clothes and posts pictures of herself in them.  If someone goes to the store and mentions "Astrid" they get 15 per cent off and I bet she gets something.  It may just be a cash amount to purchase there.  But anyway I am sure she will enjoy the experience and they could not have enlisted a more beautiful example!

March Reminiscing

 These pictures were in my March 2010 folder.  Fleta took the above picture of the Boxley elk.  This year the Game and Fish discovered wasting disease in the elk.  What will happen to them?  Who knows?  On our Blogs we can also look back and see what we were talking about on this day 6 years ago.  Well, unless, google does like ancestry and lets our Blogs die.  I am thankful that Ancestry fixed Rootsweb and it is still clicking today.  I had my doubts but for today it is working.  I am glad.

 I took this rainbow over Crow Mountain.

 Elk and below are Fleta's pictures.  I know because she always labeled them with a date.  I am too lazy for that.

 Larry built my chicken pen in March of 2010.  He also dug up a caved in cellar in our back yard.  It was a huge mess.  He got the backhoe in March of 2010.  He saw it on Craig's list and called.  It was already dark.  He told the guy he would come immediately and bring cash.  I was nervous but it all worked out.  The seller delivered it to us, I think.  Larry did not have a good enough trailer to pick it up.    He got a excellent buy.  We still have the backhoe.

 I took this picture of the fence i am still trying to get clean.  Work never done.

 I still have the two little BB Banties!  They must be almost 10 years old.   They were from Patsy.  I doubt they lay anymore but who cares.

 More Fleta photos of elk and below a snow on March 21, 2010.  Was it from Winnie.  I have long forgotten but it makes me realize to be appreciative of today's 60 degree weather.  It could be like it was on March 21, 2010.

 Larry built Sig the ladder and she decorated the tree with Jonquils in March of 2010.  She turned 5 that March!

 I had forgotten what a huge mess Larry had to dig up to get rid of the cellar.  We just have a smooth yard today and I should remember how ugly this was.

 Larry working on the backhoe.  Must have been cool as he has a jacket on.  We had the Ford tractor in 2010.  He now has a Kubota.   We bought the Ford in 1989.  It was hard to part with it, but we did.

Time marches on.  Things change.  We can grow and do or sit and wait.  Time will still march on but we aren't marching along with it we are just "here".

I did not look to see what I was thinking about this day 6 years ago, but Sister Patsy was talking abut Mitt Romney's underwear, Welsummer chckens, her son cleaning out her chicken pen, what she had planted in her little garden, a joke cousin Winnie had sent her, a snow at her house complete with pictures.   Even though, she was stuck in that mobile home with a hole in her gut, you would never have guessed it.  She was entertaining herself and all the rest of us too!!  I wish I could have her spirit of acceptance of life, but I am a whiner and complainer.  Woe to me.  I need to learn to pray for help in my walk not what the walk will be.  The walk is set and my reaction to it is all I really control.  Deliver us today, oh Lord, from ourselves is my prayer.