Catching up

Dearest friends,

I haven't moved away or stopped blogging, not quite anyhow. It's just that spring stopped by and carried me away.

Oh, I do believe this flowering quince is my favorite! This pretty shrub blooms whenever it darn well pleases, even in January, occasionally!

But back to my taking up with Spring and disappearing...

Oh, I have been all over the place...I've dug ditches and hauled loads of dirt from across the road. I've taken down two arbors and two overgrown vines. I've washed flower pots and scrubbled the teeny tiny greenhouse, and moved things around at the playhouse...again!

Still not exactly right, but there's more open space and room to work...

and washing flower pots! My neighbor Windy called and asked, "Mel, can I bring you some flower pots"? I was expecting a stack of black plastic but no...

she brought most of the clay pots here and look inside the greenhouse...

a good place to dry them. Some are plastic but not all...

some are heavy pottery pots. I'm tickled to death!

and the ditch :) ...

the black dot way back at the driveway is the drain pipe where for years the runoff has run down the short ditch, just past that big tree, then cut across to the left and run through the goat lot carrying the soil out the back and down the hill . Well DUH!! why not dig a ditch on past the little barn and lot, and so I did!

See the mud in the bottom left corner? That is the ditch that now passes the barn and lot. Must say, I'm pretty proud of this accomplishment. The ditch certainly doesn't look like one made by heavy equipment...but I will keep digging it out a little every day...

Oh, and the washed-away goat lot...

it is now my goal to single-handedly (is that a word) :) fill in the back side of the lot with loads of dirt and all the leaves from the back yard; two tarp loads a day!

Oh, Rosie and Heidi are loving it, especially when the sun warms the leaves...a black dot and white dot...

We had rain showers this morning, in fact, Eli, Weetie, and I were caught in one. 

I had just looked out and the clouds were moving away.  The sun had come out and the sky was showing patches of  blue, and Grandma Thomas always said, "it won't rain as long as there is enough blue in the sky to make a cat a pair of britches", so off we went. We were at the far end of the dam when the rain came.  :)

And my post wouldn't be complete with a sweet face or two...of daffodills, these just might be my favorite...

or maybe these...

or these...

but to me, the sweetest most precious face of all...

eating eggs and bananas. What a sweetie pie! He has grown so much!

You may remember this picture of  Kendall, our Great Grandson, born last July...

Oh my! This is way too much of a post. I've simply got to post more often and make them shorter. Hope you aren't thoroughly worn out and fed up. I'll try to do better. :)

Love,

Henny