There is Nothing Like Rain

Love all the color, especially the green,
since we usually don't have it for long.

A new section in my landscape that has really
been successful from all the rain.

Everything is so pretty when it rains

Flowers bloom and leaves are green.

The temporary Fish Pond makes a wonderful water feature.

My dry creek bed is a feature I enjoy when there is no rain.

Working on my landscaping.  I like the process of the idea to conception,
 to watching the plants grow better than I had planned.

Having a little fun with my landscaping.

After years of mowing weeds to look like we had a yard,
this year... we actually have a real yard.

When you just don't have time to get to the lake to fish.....

Texas Style

No, not really....In taking out the pond, we had to take our Koi fish out of the pond and move them to a temporary "home" until we can build a new pond.  We hadn't cleaned the pond in awhile so it was hard to find the fish as the water was draining.  But take a look at my husband's attire..LOL.  He is wearing a t-shirt that says "Just Do It" and camouflage shorts, with a different camouflage  print rubber boots and drinking a beer.  He cracks me up.  Even one of our dogs enjoyed helping to locate the fish, while my husband scooped it up in a net, then my daughter would take it out of the net and put in a bucket.

"There it is daddy, get it!"

We would then carry the bucket to the "new" location and she would take them from the bucket and put into the trough.  17 Koi.  It was a long evening and a funny one.  The fish would freak out with the moving bucket and occasionally would jump out!   But we got them all transferred safely.

Home Safe and Sound

A Little Late

A Sweet Bunny came in the cottage to hide pretty eggs

The chicks are very sweet and quite

The bunny checking in on the little baby chicks

Happy Easter

Nothing Like Good Help

We recently had some unexpected help show up on our property.

The three little ones are helping me pick out flagstone and placing them.
And then they would sit down right where they wanted me to place them.  So helpful, just like my teenager.

After all that hard work......it was break time.

BUT LATER:

The one we named Blue (because of her extremely clear light blue eyes) was helping with the lamb, Kevin.  She thought he needed to get some exercise and took him for a walk.

AND....he just would follow her.  

This is Tipper (she is all black except for the very tips of her paws and the very very end of her tail).  She is always looking so cute, so it is hard to get onto her when she is doing something she is not suppose to.

This is Blue (named that because she has the bluest eyes).
She is so funny and quite the stinker.

This is TAZ, he is the sweetest thing ever!!!!

These three showed up trotting around our property late one afternoon and my daughter and I were so afraid of them being attacked by coyotes so we scooped them up, fed, watered and sheltered them for the night. And they haven't left, to which my husband says...."that's what happens when you feed them."

The three of them are so funny, when ever one gets a drink they all get a drink, when one goes after something all three go after it.  When I try to walk some where, all three are right there to try and trip me!  But they have won my heart and much as I have tried to be aloof they are just too precious.  

All of our cats and dogs are mix breeds that were found or given to us and I love them all, but adding 3 more to the clan is quite a bit (we already have 3 dogs, 2 cats, 2 horses, donkey, lamb and a bunch of Koi fish,  cows and calves, a bull and we also feed the deer (14) can you say "food bill is HIGH?").

But They are so cute.....see

Especially when they are asleep....

My youngest daughter wants to keep all three, but she has been good about trying find good homes for them.  "Frowney Face"  I will miss them terribly, but trying to enjoy them now and hopefully when they do find forever homes they will be as loved as they are here and will be as happy as they are now.

Photos By:  Lola

RED, WHITE and BLUE

I love this bedroom.  I took my time finding all of these fabrics and quilts to get my 

Red, White and Blue 

bedroom to go with the rest of the Carriage House that is also 

Red, White and Blue.

The headboard was a creation of mine, but my poor husband was the one that had to turn it into reality.  I always come up with these ideas and I think it will go together so easily, and my husband just looks at me and shakes his head with a chuckle.  Because not only do I say it's "easy" but I'm also famous for saying, "it won't take but a second".

I found this old pitcher at an antique store and just had to have it, and it must have been meant for me, because I walked away from it originally, then went back a few weeks later and there it was!  Well actually it was in a different spot and I really thought I had lost out, but I found it and was delighted!  The bear is one of the many bears my husband gave me for an anniversary (I use to get one each year, but you can imagine he stopped many many years ago. LOL  The picture was one of our first pictures to buy together for our first house.  The coat rack, was a tree on our property we cut down, I stripped the bark and sanded it all down,  stained and sealed.....wala!  (LOL, of course my husband and to cut the roots off and attach me a base...."easy and just took a second")

The thing I like about the Cowgirl Glam is you wear boots and jeans with lots of sparkles!  It makes you be both a girl who can do the farm work, but still be very much a girl!!

I just found this old wooden clip board for a few bucks, thinking I might want to do something with it, but not sure what yet.

I found this little metal salvage piece, it was a window sash handle, 

perfect for the tiny stuff that my daughter uses all the time.

I LOVE these little letters that are like little letter tiles in all different fonts and cases.  

I have to watch it or I will be putting them on everything.

Photos By: Lola