Little Farm surrounded in yellow

I 've just got to do one more post about the leaves and the colors of fall before the last leaf falls.

As much as I hate to see summer end, there is something magical about fall that takes me back, makes me dream. I could sit in a warm spot under these yellow leaves for hours...

Rosie is a little vacuum. She picks up every leaf and sometimes stands looking up, waiting for the next one to fall...

It has been a while since I've talked about our teeny tiny (make believe) farm. Looking more and more like time is running out for my dream of a having a barn with a loft filled with hay, a donkey, a wooden fence around a pasture of green grass.  Oh well, part of my dream was a log cabin and that we have...and chickens...

Just past that yellow tree sits the little red hen house...

and you may remember the brush pile I built for the chickens to play on. Have added a few limbs over the years...

Last Mother's Day I bought 5 baby chicks from Tractor Supply Company. They were tiny babies and now it's hard to tell them from the old hens. 

These three are new, only 6 months old and one has started laying, a small light brown egg . Aren't they pretty!

Someone left the front gate open. Where is Ellie, I wonder...

Leaves, leaves, leaves! and every year I wonder, will I be able to rake leaves this year? Well, so far, so good! It took 8 tarp loads to cover the teeny tiny garden with willow oak leaves.

and this very yellow tree is a Redbud that I planted in a pot then let it grow too big to be moved...

another yellow tree, an Ash of some kind down by the pond and near Randall Rabbit's lot...

and here we go around the pond, walking Ellie, our stepping stones are completely covered in leaves...that's Poppy in front. Ellie and I lag behind. 

and on around the path. Look closely and see the purple obedient plants in bloom...

I stopped and got this picture of Randall Rabbit's home. It's the little house with the green roof, across the pond...

Randall, seemed to me, hasn't felt well lately. Plus, he has been shedding and drooling a lot. He spent Tuesday at the vet's office getting a check-up. The vet sedated him and checked his teeth thinking he might have a bad one. Rabbits do have teeth problems that can be serious. Well, they found nothing wrong. Nothing! I'm very glad but the Vet bill!! I haven't had Randall neutered because I felt like it was too expensive. Well, Tuesday's bill would have covered having him neutered. :( Randall was sound asleep in his little house here...

Randall has his home back. The two small Lionhead rabbits, Daisy and Sage moved to their new home behind the chicken lot...

more room to play, their very own ramp and a chair to nap in. 

and a three story house.

Oh dear, I have made this way too long. I understand if you turned me off and gone to bed. :) So many pictures. I do get carried away. I'm saying good night now, but can't go without one more picture...here's Smokey in the leaves...

Love, Henny

Happy Halloween!!!

Sitting at the sewing machine in my teeny tiny sewing room it hit me! Today is Halloween!!

Seeing as how it has been a month since my last post, if I hurry, I can wish you a happy Halloween. We have no trick or treaters way out here in the country, but here's a couple of cuties thay came in a text...

Miss curly top, Violet. Not sure who she is dressed as but I do know it's a character from Toy Story...

Bet she can hardly wait to collect a bucket of candy. 

Halloween used to be such fun in the little town of Robbins where I grew up. There was music and dancing in the streets in downtown. I remember once there was a cake walk and when the music stopped, there I was! In the right spot! The most bashful kid in town. A lady came over and put the big chocolate cake in my hands, Somehow, I managed to get the cake to mama. :)

Would you look at this lovely witch...

What a spooky back yard she and Jason have! Easy to see however, that my daughter Lynn is a good witch on her way to work...

Anyhow, aren't the leaves simply beautiful!! And we were told by folks on local TV stations the colors would not be as pretty this Fall because of the drought. We need rain terribly bad. Our little pond needs water. 

Here's a picture. Look how far above the water the little old pier sits. Poppy and I built that pier and built it too low. Sometimes, it is under the water.

 We do see a few beautiful spots along the path as we walk Ellie every morning...

and down the power line...

You all know that Poppy calls himself a big deer hunter. Well look at this picture he took from his hiding spot near Randall Rabbit's home...

Lucky bunch of deer we have around here. Poppy came home empty handed. I love it!!

Not much of a post. Mostly wanted to say hello and happy Halloween...and I am still blogging!! 

Love, Henny

Back, by the skin of my teeth!

Whew! If it's not one thing broken around here, it's another! Cannot send pictures from my iPhone to our computer. Have been messaging them to Poppy and he then emails them to my gmail address and I download to the computer. Well now Poppy can no longer send them...something went terribly wrong???

So! I am now messaging pictures to Andee in West Virginia and she is mailing them back to my gmail address and I download them to the computer. Sounds like some of us don't know what we're doing. :)

Anyhow, the weather has cooled off a bit here and we are actually getting a little rain, as I sit here. 

I should be sewing bonnets and aprons for the upcoming Christmas Craft Bazaar but both my sewing machines are in need of repair! Like I said, If it ain't one thing it's another! :)

My teeny tiny greenhouse and playhouse have been a mess all summer...

With the record-breaking heat and dry weather this summer well, it was just no fun being there. Now that it has cooled off, I've cleared a spot behind the playhouse for stuff...

Hopefully, these plants will survive the winter back here, especially so after the leaves fall and cover them. Most the other potted shrubs, rose bushes, etc., are inside the garden fence...grouped together for the winter...leaving the playhouse cleaned out and open...

Now to do some fixing up and changing things around. No longer a very pretty site. I definitely want a new rocking chair for next summer! Any suggestions?

So now, I have a little persimmon story to tell... Poppy and I love persimmon pudding but there are no persimmon trees close by or at least that's what we thought...

Walking down the path one morning I found a pretty orange persimmon in the middle of the path. No kidding! Poppy said, when I opened my hand to show him the persimmon. We walked back down the path and sure enough there was a tall skinny persimmon tree leaning out over the path. Several cars and trucks travel our path daily, so we have had to watch closely and check often for a fallen persimmon.

Finding only 2 or 3 at a time has taken patience to prepare and freeze 2 cups of pulp. This is 1 cup frozen and a few more left on the counter to ripen. Finally, after weeks of this, enough to make a pudding...

and hot from the oven...

and it turned out good! Do any of you like persimmon pudding? I was really surprised to read that persimmon pudding originated in the Midwestern United States particularly Southern Indiana. I always thought it originated up around Seagrove North Carolina, some of mama's people. :) 

Well, I guess that's about it for now except a little photo shoot with Smokey...

that serious look when it comes to his food

showing off those claws

and a perfect little angel

Thank you, friends, for visiting. Hope you'll come back!

Love, Henny

There was a little girl who had a little curl...

  right in the middle of her forehead...

You may remember our great granddaughter, sweet little Violet. She wasn't even walking last time I posted her picture.  She is the most adorable child. 

Looks like she was fixing to water her Grandma Andee and Grandpa Todd's flowers...

which just happens to be my all-time favorite picture! And now that Violet is two and a half, she has a new baby brother...

This is Henry, born last May...

Little Violet and baby Henry along with their parents Madison and Hunter just spent a few days at Disney World in Florida. Hopefully, we will get to see them soon. Violet was just a baby last time they were home. We haven't seen Henry yet. Andee keeps us up to date with lots of pictures. 

The early morning sun sure made us long and skinny this morning...

and the Black-eyed Susans must like this dry dusty weather...

It's odd how the Goldenrods aren't blooming. See them in the background how they look like they might bloom. But then they just turn brown. Got to be the drought.

There were a few purple flowers mixed in...

Makes our morning walk with Ellie more enjoyable.

One more thing. I've got to show you my "Rusty Heart"...

My good friend Karen who lives just down the road a piece loves rusty things, like me. She has a rusty heart and tells me that she and Norm, her husband, were driving along and she spotted this rusty heart for sell. She bought it for me. Karen says, "now we both have rusty hearts". Isn't that sweet?

Well friends, that's about it for this post. Oh, I've got to mention this. I was looking at comments awaiting moderation, (something I never think to look at) and saw dozens of comments concerned about me, since I was missing for about 3 months. Made me feel just awful but touched my heart. Thank you so much for worrying about me. Thank you for caring. 

Love, Henny

September Morning...

and there sat a crow looking at the moon...

It was our early morning walk with Ellie, and I didn't have my camera, but Poppy did have his. "hurry", I said, "I want a picture of that crow and the moon"! 

Made me think of mama...It was on a Sunday many years ago even before we moved out here. We were clearing a spot to build the cabin and was burning brush. Mama said, "Melba, I'd be ashamed to be burning brush on Sunday. You know that's how the man got put in the moon"!

Anyhow, hello again dear friends. It's good to be back even though there isn't much to post. The teeny tiny pond is still here even through this summer of extreme heat and drought...

We were beginning to worry but then it rained in July! Enough to bring the water level up but have had no more since then. Things are looking bad again...

Good to have a place for the animals to get water and cool off a bit. We have seen deer wading over near the cattails. Once a mama deer and her twins were in the water.

Let me show you how I grow grass... :)

or should I say weeds? This spot going into the goat lot was a small, washed-out gully. Driving me crazy!! So once again I filled it with dirt and this time covered it with bark off a dead tree. See, I figured if the grass thought that I was building a path, it would grow there.  :)

Probably shouldn't mention this but it's the old 37-year-old couch. I've covered the cushions again. Several months ago, I found a beautiful large piece of upholstery fabric at a thrift shop for $3.00!!

my colors too! Red, gold,

So here we go again...this should do us for a while longer. Not perfect but will do for now. 

Well, I'm sure you've all seen enough, if you've made it this far. Thank you for visiting. I appreciate you so much!

Love, Henny