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Irises bloomed!
Posted by Lacy in Capturing Life in Photos, On the Farm on Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Yay! Mom's Irises's bloomed! Aren't they beautiful? Everything is nice and green now (except the purple irises
LOL!)! The grass is growing, but it's not so "grassy" as I would've thought it would be after all that snow we had. It seems more weedy than anything, and growing kind of slowly {I think, anyway}. We haven't had to do any mowing yet except the push mowing Dad did last night around the garden edges! Gracie's keeping the front yard mowed down nicely, too.
Looks like I'll have to be changing my header image again to an updated photo! Snow just doesn't seem to match what it looks like outside anymore!
The first picture below is a flower I found in the front yard; it's on a really tall stem. I was surprised it was there since Gracie eats pretty much everything in the front yard field… maybe she just doesn't like flowers?
Who knows! At least I was able to get a picture of it. Not sure what kind of flower it is though!
A couple more flower shots that I took yesterday… =)
Sunny, laying in my lap. I had a terrible time taking this picture, especially since I did it with one hand!
He's sure turning out to be a great cat, and an excellent hunter! {He loves mice} When there's no mice to be found, he hunts for something else. Last thing he caught {that I know of, anyway} was a small rabbit. And yes, he ate the whole thing!
I've got a quicker way to do the animal chores in the evening now. After we milk Gracie, I go back out and fill the feeders up with the necessary grain, and clean / refill whatever waterers need done {I have to stick the chicken feeders inside the hen house, though, else they'll eat it all!}. This way, when I put all the animals in later, all the feeding and watering is done for everybody, and all I have to do is put them in! It's a wonder I didn't think of doing it this way a long time ago.
It sure makes things go quicker!
Here's two not-so-bad self portraits I managed to take yesterday.
I was wearing a blue {I love blue} bandanna in place of my normal tan covering. I had no idea my hair was hanging over my shoulder in the first one, and when I looked at the picture on the camera, I thought it was some big spider crawling over my shoulder!
LOL!
Order my Steps
Is it possible? Am I really turning seventeen today? That seems like such a big number! Just last year I turned sixteen. Now another year has passed already… wow!
It seems like, the older you get, the faster time flies.
It's March already!! But, it was just January 1st, 2010! I don't ever remember the year going by that quickly when I was 12 & 14! Here below is a conglomeration of pictures I collected of myself since I was a baby – up till now (the last picture at the bottom was taken last month, I believe). I figured ya'll might be interested in seeing what I looked like when I was younger/smaller.
lol…
O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. The LORD is King for ever and ever:
(Psalms 8:1, 9:1, & 10:16a)
Thou art my God, and I will praise thee; thou art my God, I will exalt thee. Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes. Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. O GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee:
(Psalms 118:28, 119:66, 119:133, 119:135 119:140, 63:1)
Sled riding!
Posted by Lacy in On the Farm on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Whew! After not going sled riding for a LONG time, I finally got to do so again this evening! The sleds that Pap got us a long time ago are mainly for sledding on ice (at least, they generally don't work very well on snow… metal runners, you tend to sink (in the snow) with them
), and since we normally don't get a lot of ice, we've never had a chance to use them yet.
So, Levi got our sleds out of the Rabbit Building this evening and we proceeded to get a running start and sled down the slick, icy driveway! Boy oh boy was that fun!
I apologize for the lack of pictures of the event, but I don't particularly think it would be wise to try to take pictures and steer the sled at the same time.
I'd probably end up in the snow bank, LOL!
Gracie started running around in her pen when we started sledding… I guess she wanted to get out and run, and because she couldn't, just decided to run circles in her pen! She'd watch us sled down the driveway, and then run around her pen, and come back and watch us some more.. silly cow!
And, since I can't resist posting and not adding any pictures for ya'll, here are two pretty recent ones;
Sunny sittin' in the bird feeder, just hoping a bird will happen to fly in!

A woodpecker Gabriel and I scared up, and he paused just long enough for me to snap his picture!




















Tsk, tsk, bad chickens! Hopefully they'll pick up production again soon! I remember when we were getting 13 and 14 a day! And, with Gabriel on patrol in the barnyard, I'm hoping the rooster fights won't be as bad this year, though I'm sure I'm going to have to separate Danny and Jacob if they start fighting that bad again. I don't look forward to all the separating animals again… lol, maybe I should just let them all fight it out!





















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