Whatever else I happen to photo..🤓
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted some of the flowers that are happily blooming …so here goes.
Have a lovely week friends.
My daughter is very good at keeping me informed on how the grand children are doing,and little sneak peeks into their lives!
Candice is a chip off the old block here, she loves her chicks as much as I do!
Here’s Mike and Hubby at work wearing them… quite the outfit.
Spring is in full swing here on our little farm,so that means lots of out of doors work,…mowing ,weed whacking ,weed pulling,and mulching. Of course, it also means… sore muscles, blisters on your hands even with gloves on, farmers tan ,and ant bites.
However when it’s all done ,it’s so worth it! Here’s the big flowerbed almost done.
We’ve had a real problem with predators wanting to get the chickens and ducks lately. Sad to say a pair of skunks got into the young ducks,eating three leaving me two😡…
Caroline took care of the hawk that got into the chicken pen…. no one messes with her chickens. She watches out for them even sleeping at the chicken pen gate. Caroline did try to get the skunks ,bless her for trying but the spray was to overwhelming.
I had a few feed sack scraps that I wanted to use up in a wall hanging. I picked out a gray fabric that I had laying around. I liked it when I laid the little feed sack fabrics against it, but somehow when sewing it together… it started to look nothing of what I thought it would.
Then it hit me that black would really pop those blocks out as they all just ran into each other. Here is the finished top, that I’m much happier with.
Three F’s … if I was in school ,I don’t think I would have gone home to Mom. 😳 Today though those three F’s are all positive even if one of those words are failure.
I’ll start with fall first. I know that up north a lot of y’all are having snow and cold temps,here in the south we are just getting through the fall that was surprisingly pretty for the south. I’ll show you then let you decide… just promise not to compare it to the New England States.😀
It is also time for Camellias to start blooming..
The hard frost didn’t kill the Gerber daisies up against the house
Now isn’t that a fancy word for miscellaneous!😁 that is exactly what this post is,a little of this and a little of that!
For the first little …
Hubby and son( Mike ) need to put time in on their diving,so they look for interesting ways to do this. Here is one of the ways they put that time to use…
Hubby said it is something that he wants to do again! Maybe next time I’ll go along to run the kayak to put their trash in.
On to the next little…
Look at darker spot in the photos that is a curled up leaf, when the wind blow the leaf out of the sun it was all dark, with the sun a red spot.
Some more littles….
Daughter-in-law made this cream cheese peach cake.. it was heavenly!
This was a morning glory vine that was huge and full of lovely blooms.
Of course ,there has to be some lake views..
And what’s a post without a quilt …
This quilt I purchased off of eBay. The lady ,Mable Minard, made the top was from Truro, Iowa, born in 1900 and pieced the quilt around late 1920’s to early 1930’s.
I love it’s uniqueness. I do believe that some of its fabrics are older than 1920’s but l will post more photos of it in another post when I go to hand quilt it.
Leona enjoying a cozy blanket on a cool morning.
Have a great weekend!
Summer time heat has hit us hard ,and earlier then usual,over Memorial Day week end ,it set a new record in Augusta with temperatures at 101*. We decided to go camping to enjoy the water!
I did a little hiking and come across a lonely grave. It was hard to read but with some finger tracing ,I finally figured out what was in graved in the head stone. It read… Willis Craft born July 1809 died March 21 1874 . After doing some google search ,I learned that he was very active in the community of Elberton,Ga. It was his dying wish to be buried out on his farm,which is now a lovely wooded area. His family was buried in Elberton.
Caroline enjoying a little water herself on a hot day!
The lilies haven’t minded the heat.
My guava tree is blooming for the first year.
And we will have Kiwi this fall!
And all the hard work of mowing,weed whacking,and weed pulling pay off!
How old this century plant is ,I don’t know but I do believe it’s getting some age to it . I’m looking forward to it blooming!
And of course there’s time to notice a little toad!
Hope you are enjoying your soon to be summertime!
I want to thank each of you who sent their love and sympathy on my last post, if truly meant a lot!
Papa’s death was a shock to all of us as he was a very active 80 year old . Papa’s death was treated as a crime site being a fire was involved,he was burning some trash in a bin when some tar on the outside of the bin caught fire lighting the grass around it. He was trying to move a small trailer away from the fire,when he went down on his knees,coughed than there was no more respondence. A grandson who was there called 911 right away,but till they got there the fire was pretty much out except for the front of papas shirt where he had put the lighter to light the fire in his pocket. Papa was burnt bad enough on the face that there was no viewing of his body, however the undertaker made it possible for the family to view a hand which gave closure to the lot of us.
The autopsy reported was there was no smoke in the lungs , it was stated as a medical heart disease as the clause of death. That ,my friends ,was a real relief to me to know he was gone before the fire ever hit him!
While parting of a loved one is hard,it was wonderful to be loved and have memories of a wonderful father in law.
Then there is freshness of spring to value….
And then the enjoyment of having a sweet tempered Rottweiler around again. Caroline didn’t want her picture taken.😄
The fun of sewing for others….need to finish binding them yet though.
The anticipation of watching this cocoon hatch…
Also valuing the time spent with hubby in a short get away in the blue ridge mountains.
Moments that make precious memories are what make my life full of value.
I’ve been in awe of her in many ways these last few weeks with the hurricanes then beautiful days.
She is also keeping me busy cleaning up after her! We had leaves plastered to our vehicles,house and shop like we were trying to camouflage them.
We had a few scary moments driving..
Then Mother Nature gives moments of absolute wonder…
Provides relaxation..
And then there’s critters,flowers and fungi…
Truly the poetry of earth is never done!
Have a great week !
This post is going to be about different things going on here on the farm… so grab a cup of coffee , and welcome to our farm!
The garden has been doing great ,it is really looking good since we’ve had some much needed rain. The summer squash will be ready to start picking this week,there’s also little zucchini’s showing on the zucchini plants. Tomatoes are blooming,green beans are also!
The bitties that I got ,so I could once again have my hens to enjoy. We put up a little house closer to our house hoping that some of the wild animals will not be so ready to have a chicken meal. The house is for the hens is predator safe,now if the hawks will leave them alone during the day when they are out free ranging.
The flowerbeds are full of lily blooms right now!
As you can see I still haven’t mulched over the papered walk way yet…. the dollars ran out!😬😀
Now on to the little house across the road…
We have must of the trash out of the house and gone. There are two old TVs that LouAnn and I need help with as they are heavy! We are working on ripping up the tiled flooring and base boards as we discovered that the dog that lived there with the older lady used those as his pee posts! The tiles were in sad shape as you can see.
We are working on two of the back rooms, the windows in them will also need replaced.
There had been a little sewing being done during the heat of the day, as our days are in the upper 80’s (27c to32c)to low 90’s. Nice break time.
And of course a rainbow is always a welcome sight!
Have a good week,friends
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