Sometimes I just simply run out of anything worth posting...and still don't have much.
I was in Henderson yesterday picking up a prescription and on the drive home stopped the car in the middle of a back country road to get this picture...
Do you ever wonder why you are drawn to certain things? For me it's these small lonely looking old home places. I just feel a connection somehow.
Leaves are falling from the willow oak trees which makes me think of fall...and those spiders that show up this time of the year! They hang in a web that looks like a clothesline strung from one tree to another. I have horrors of walking into one. During the day the spider hides, but hangs in that web at night. Another sign of fall...Yellowjackets. I never see them until this time of the year. Busy mowing the back yard a couple of days ago, I felt that awful painful stinging on the side of my foot. It was a Yellowjacket. I had mowed over their nest in a hole in the ground.
I can see a little fall in this picture...
I am actually looking forward to raking leaves this fall...imagine that! The very job that stressed me out so last fall
Bun Bun just may be spoiled. Hanging out waiting for me to carry him to the empty dog lot to play...
Thank you for stopping by.
Love,
Henny Penny
Guess who got another brand new ten dollar bone...for being such a good boy...
Nellie stopped by late this afternoon with a container of cooked collards, two cornbread patties and some cake. We watched the new duck swimming on the pond and then looked in on Bun Bun. Remember Bun Bun the little grey rabbit...
This was Bun Bun back in May. Well today I let him play inside one of our empty dog lots. Of course I forgot the camera. It was totally entertaining to watch him. He hopped all around that dog lot kicking up his heels and acting silly. He is back in his cage for the night. Hopefully tomorrow I will get pictures.
I have finished cleaning up that second dirty baby doll. Here are the dolls again as they looked when Nellie brought them to me...
and now...
This was a fun job!
There's no telling what I've written here as I am blogging in my sleep. Hope to visit with you all tomorrow. Right now the bed looks mighty good.
Love,
Henny
Most nights when supper is finished and Poppy settles into his favorite chair in front of the TV, Eli brings his teddy bear so he and Poppy can fight. Last night however, Poppy didn't feel so well. He was not in the mood to rough-house with Eli. With a sad pitiful look Eli dragged his bear across the floor and got up in his favorite chair...
He is such a big sweetie-pie!
You should have seen him light up when I said come on Eli, we'll go for a walk. While we were out I tried getting some better pictures of the new duck...
Those feathers on her left side are not supposed to stand out quite the way they do. Those were probably hurt when she was put in the cage. Lots of folks are not as careful and gentle as I like to be when handling animals. Wish I could gather up and bring home all the animals that belong to folks around here.
Back when I was having yard sales at the flea market every Friday and Saturday, a man brought a small wire cage and crowded inside that cage was two roosters, one guinea, four or five hens, and a duck. Hot summertime, no food, no water...I was so thankful when one by one he sold out. This guy deserved to be shut up in a small cage and left sitting in the sun for a day and I would love to be the one to latch the door of that cage.
I tell Poppy, most of the critters we bring home probably think they have died and gone to heaven.
I am a very patient person. Sometimes however I just can't wait, not even for one more day. I'm talking about those dirty grungy dolls of Nellie's. Can't wait to show you. Remember the one with the dirtiest face and wearing the little dress?
The doll's outfit is made from two perfectly good pairs of my winter socks. I started working with the doll and could not go to bed until I had finished.
Gosh! I need to be finished here! Still lots to do today. Thank you for stopping by.
Love,
Henny
Nellie stopped by again, she said, to show me two old baby dolls. Two grungy old baby dolls. One she said had been thrown away. She found it at the trash dump. Not sure about the other. We looked at the dolls, talked for a few minutes and Nellie said, smiling, I brought you something you've been wanting. Oh my gosh! What? She walked around to the back of her old two tone grey and burgundy pick-up truck, let the raggedy old tailgate down, reached in and pulled out a cage holding a beautiful white duck. A large graceful white duck with black markings. The duck looks a lot like this female "Magpie" duck borrowed from Wikipedia...
Where was my camera while all this was happening? In the house! Why didn't I get a picture of Nellie and her truck? Maybe next time.
Like Piper our little black duck, this new duck has lived in a pen...never been on the water before. These ducks are so enjoying the pond. I got a few pictures early this morning of the three ducks on the pond, but not a close up...
No duck in this next picture. I just like the picture...
Nellie would not let me pay her for the duck so I talked her into taking half the green beans I had snapped and washed...all ready to put on to cook. There were enough to make each of us a big potful.
Back to those dolls. I am warning you...these boy baby dolls from the 1970's need some work bad...
This should be a fun job!
I hope to be back soon with better pictures of the ducks and the dolls. Better get busy...got beans on the stove in the pressure canner. Thank you for visiting.
Love,
Henny
How fortunate I am to have two beautiful and special granddaughters...Madison and Michaela. Both granddaughters were born in 1998, three months apart. Madison, Andee's daughter was born in April. Michaela, Lynn's daughter was born in July.
Last month I posted my favorite picture of Madison wearing her prom dress. So, now I have a new favorite picture of Michaela to show off...
It's pretty hard to imagine looking at this picture that Michaela was such a tom boy growing up. Having three older brothers to compete with, well...Daniel, Joseph, and John...
See what I mean. Joseph, on the left, looks like he had been in a fight. I think he fell from every piece of furniture in the house at one time or another. Actually the white spot on his little mouth is a scratch on the picture. I love these boys! Of course, now they are big strong handsome men.
Moving on...It was my daughter Lynn back in February of 2013 who said...mama, I think that you would enjoy having a blog. She was right about that! This has been such fun. It feels like I have traveled around the world meeting people! Not just people, but real friends.
Recently, Lynn said...mama, I think you would enjoy doing Pilaties. Doing what? Pilaties, Pilaties. It's exercise. Now in my thirties and forties I exercised faithfully. Every night some time after supper but before bed time I exercised. I had my routine worked out...bending and stretching, touching my toes, sit-ups, leg kicks. There were about six different exercises and I did forty repetitions each. Lately, I have noticed my waistline disappearing...in fact the last time I checked, it was completely gone. How did this happen! Disgusted with myself, last Saturday morning I got on the computer and searched for Pilaties for beginners. Sure enough there on "You Tube", a 30 minute Pilaties workout for beginners. I slid a chair or two out of my way and tried sitting down on the bedroom floor. Actually I had to drop myself down on the bedroom floor. I got half way down and remembered that my knees don't work so well any more. Well folks today will be my forth day of "trying" to do Pilaties. Hey, my plan is to get good at this. Pilaties is pushing your belly button inwards toward your spine...I've got a long ways to go to get my belly button anywhere close to my spine. :)
Thank you so much for visiting.
Love,
Henny Penny
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Warning! Guard dog on duty...
The deer was in the yard again today. Poppy and I are beginning to think this deer was raised by someone. Wouldn't that be sad as deer season starts in September. This poor deer will be killed for sure...
The deer did not come any closer to Poppy but neither did it run away. It wandered into the back yard and down to the pond for water...
This deer is definitely not like the others around here. Deer run at the slightest sound or sight of a person.
Poppy went with me up to the garden this morning to see if there was anything that needed to be picked or gathered. Now I know you're tired of seeing my vegetables...lots of people out there have gardens and raise vegetables much prettier than ours. It's just that this teeny tiny garden has given us so much this summer. I am overwhelmed...and thankful...
and, another pound and a half tomato...
Looks like tomorrow will be another bean snapping bean canning day. Never let it be said that I was caught sitting idle! Mama used to say, well don't stop now! :)
Part of the flock gathered in for a group picture...
and, Big Boy said get one of me down here in the grass and weeds...
Sorry for all the pictures. Sometimes I get carried away. Thank you for stopping by. Better get supper started.
Love,
Henny
I've had the pleasure of company for the last three days...Cousin Pat. That right. The same Pat who gave us her treasured old cupboard that graces our little front porch and Pat is the artist who painted the picture of Bickett.
Pat and I had fun shopping. A thrift store downtown had a bag sale. Five dollars for all the clothes you could pack into the bag. Now I can pack a bag! I came home with lots of new old clothes to wash and iron. Even had to clear the closet of all the even older clothes that I no longer wear.
Once again I am behind in posting and reading posts.
Just minutes ago Eli and I walked out the front door and right into a deer. She was helping herself to water from the birdbath...
Drinking from the birdbath is fine with me. I am however a little leery of wild animals that are not afraid of people. She stood there several minutes drinking, raising her head, and drooling into the birdbath. She looked up but made no attempt to run, even after Eli growled and barked...
When she had finished her drink she wandered slowly over to the raggedy old well and hung around for a while. Are deer ever rabid?
Eli and I decided to go through the house and out the back door for our short walk.
This hillbilly couple...reckon they will ever amount to anything...
In town yesterday I mailed out a sample of the chicken feed that Popeye, Olive, and Sweet Pea were eating before they died. Once the testing is done and I hear back from the manufacturer, I will post the results.
The trees and plants have lost their fresh spring green and are looking older and worn here in the middle of August. The yard is blah. The Joe Pye weed is attracting lots of butterflies and bees...
and, for the first time ever I have a Rose of Sharon in bloom...
The Impatients are still blooming. The first bit of cold will take these out though. Someone once said that Impatients are so sensitive to the cold that you could kill them by sitting your glass of iced tea beside them...
I want more flowers and a prettier yard next year. Something to look forward to and dream about, I suppose.
Thank you if you have managed to stick around this long. Thank you for visiting.
Love,
Henny Penny
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