Sweet Song

The Brown Thrush came yesterday searching for a bite under my feeders. He was looking for larva or a bug. He is beautiful and his song is sweeter than an opera. I was blessed by his performance!

“I admire the moderation of this master. There is nothing tumultuous in his song. He launches forth one strain with all his heart and life and soul; a pure and unmatchable melody and then he pauses and gives the hearer and himself time to digest this. And then another and another at suitable intervals.” (Henry David Thoreau)

Finished a baby blanket and hat today. This is really soft yarn!  💙Baby boy blue💙

 

Chicken Treat

Turning into my Sister Patsy. I can’t let my chickens out because the skies over the Meadow having flying hawks. Patsy used to pull grass for hers. Yesterday, I did the same. They loved it.

Thought this was a great April Fool trick.
 

Mowing Season

Well, soon I’ll be mowing. I got my push mower out once already and mowed a tall patch of grass south of the garage. I scooped up the grass for my chickens. It grew tall again and I pulled the mower out for a repeat. The pull start seemed to be stuck. I looked and the throttle cable was broke. I wouldn’t mind just getting a new mower but Logan told me most of the new we ones were electric battery. I amazed myself that I recalled what the part was called.

 What to do when you don’t have son? You have to call a mechanic. I call Lil’ Red who “can do” just about everything. She ordered a new cable from Amazon and today she installed it. Lawn mower started on first pull. I’m back in business💚 

 

20

Sigrid is 20 today. She’s a special lady. She has insight into people and things. Happy Birthday to Siggie! 

 

Winter Garden

Laura finished another book.  This one is called “Winter Garden”. Each month she reads a book and makes a quilt block to go with the book. She’s made 3! At the end of the year, she’ll have 12 blocks and will create a quilt with them to celebrate a year of reading. 

January

 February 

Country Life

The dogs love going for a swim in the pond.

Astrid likes old things that have a country look. She got this recently. It reminds me of my Momma.

Looks like her raised beds are full of something green.
 

Gump Bench

Kids got to sit on the Forest Gump bench. Larry loved this movie, but I always felt it didn’t portray handicapped people in a true light. I really never liked it. Corgis were glad for the owners to return. I walked them over and they met us half way across the field. Pretty and Peach barked the entire way. They were glad to be in their own house.

Erin’s bunch went over into Kansas to the Wilder homestead. Ada is by the well Pa dug by hand. The land they were on turned out to be in the Osage Nation and they moved to Plum Creek.  

 

Gators

 

Sigrid is a ham. Kids are on their way home. Corgis will be happy. 

Savannah

Eric, Laura and Sigrid are on a spring break trip to Savannah. They departed Sunday. It took about 12 hours to get there. They shared pictures yesterday. I can see many more blooms than we have here. Spanish moss hangs from the trees. They’ll  return midweek. Savannah is on the coast separated from South Carolina by the Savannah River. Yesterday they visited Saint John the Baptist Cathedral and Forsyth Park. I enjoyed seeing the adventures. I’m in charge of two Corgis til they return. Pretty Boy and Peach don’t really like being on their vacation to my house.

I think this is Forsyth Park.

 

They shared pictures of the Cathedral.

Rue

I saw this pretty little flower blooming on my walk growing in little patches. Some light pink and some white. They were in woodsy areas by my path. I walk so often that a path has developed in the woods by Galla Lake. The deer and I beat it down. I will carry my loppers this week as a few stickers are growing up there.  

Rue anemone has tiny white flowers and bright green leaves and likes the dappled shade of trees where the soil is rich, loamy, and moist. It  blooms for a period of about six weeks and then goes dormant. Bees love it.

 

Bummer

Behind this old sheet, I have the flowers that I kept through the winter. A few days after I lugged them all to the back porch, it got cold again.mi rigged this up to protect them. Some mornings we have had frost. I’m not keeping them through another winter season I don’t think. They make too much of a mess.

 

School Days

Schools now take pictures twice. This is Ada’s spring photo from school. She’s standing. Things are different today. We sat on a short stool and they quickly snapped our image but only in the fall. I think the pkg was 3.00. Good ole days.

Astrid took her dogs to the pond and they all went for a swim. She sneaked a look in Pop’s Wood duck house and it was full of eggs. Covered in down. Hope they hatch.