Hope you all had a wonderful Easter. It was quiet around here. Poppy worked and I was home alone. Well not exactly home alone...I had the cats, Bickett, Dumperoo, and Smokey and the doggies, Eli and Weetie, and the sweetest Easter Bunny "BunBun" to hang around with...
Why do I think he is just the cutest bunny ever?
He makes me laugh. BunBun seems to like Weetie. They run side by side around and around the dog lot...BunBun inside and Weetie outside...
Not much of a post here. Mostly wanted to Check in and show you BunBun. Thank you and I hope to be back soon.
Love,
Henny
Good gosh! Is it really necessary to turn everything in the house up side down just to give one room a good cleaning...
Right now I'm taking a break...having a baked oatmeal bar and a glass of cold milk, which is very good, by the way!
We have company coming next Tuesday. Seeing as how I've turned our only other little bedroom into a sewing room and that's where she will be sleeping...I needed to clean. With the cats sleeping on the bed and the dust from the litter box behind the bed, and the lint and dust from cutting and sewing well it is a mess.
Got about a quarter mile of washed ruffly curtains blowing in the breeze on the clothesline...
Tuesday morning I'll put the clean sheets and bedspread on the bed.
Remember the three peach trees that have been in pots up at garden? A few weeks ago I finally got one of them transplanted. The roots had grown through the bottom of the pot and deep into the ground. After a lot of back breaking pulling and tugging, I had to chop part of the roots off, then with a knife cut the pot away. What a job! Looks like the little peach tree might live. It is blooming...
Thinking of you all and wanted to say hello. The wind has surely dried the curtains by now so I'll get back to work. Thank you for visiting.
Love,
Henny
As for the little poem March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers, it seems to me that March is trying to catch up. This is our third windy windy April day! The kind of wind that parts your hair in the back and wraps it around your face. No need in even trying to fix your hair to go to town.
I've piddled around in my teeny tiny sewing room the last couple of nights and did manage to finish up another apron and bonnet. The red print turned out pretty good...
It's almost impossible to find a spot on the bed to lay out a yard of fabric where there's not a kitty cat napping or waiting...
to grab anything that touches the bed. Poppy says, "run them off", but I can't hurt their feelings. They just want to be with me...
This apron I put together with scraps of different fabrics and it turned out rather old fashioned looking...
and the bonnet too. Not a match really but okay...
A bunch of bonnets...oh, and see the Jane Eyre movie there on the sewing machine table. The new TV/VCR is hooked up and ready to go. I love it! But haven't watched my favorite old VCR tape yet. There's just not enough hours in the day!
a few more bonnets...
Better get busy. I'm off to Belk's in Henderson to return a coffee maker. Poppy and I went all out and bought a nice one this time...$132.00 we paid by the time shipping and taxes were added on. Anyway, I hate the new coffee maker. We haven't had a good cup of coffee since we bought the thing. It drips coffee constantly! The coffee maker we had before was a small cheap, less than 15.00 Sunbeam. It made a good cup of coffee and was still working after about eight years of service. Every morning we expected to find that old Sunbeam in the kitchen dead. The day we plugged in the new fancy coffeemaker, Poppy dropped the little Sunbeam off at Dumperoo's old home place...the Moulton Road dumpster site.
Happy Easter! Hope to be back soon.
Love,
Henny
A little 'hello' post and update on the teeny tiny farm down here on Henny Penny Lane.
Monday started off cold and rainy and very windy! Going out early to open up the chicken coop the wind blew my sweater open and almost off my shoulders...burr! I was still in my pajamas!
Big Boy ran straight to the old dog house for shelter from the early morning rain...a dry place to crow...
Then yesterday we welcomed sunshine and much warmer temperatures. Sunny enough to hang the quilts and bedspreads on the clothesline. The last day of March and did it ever go out like a lion! I fully expected this old clothesline to break trying to support a heavy load against that high wind, which did blow the prop from under the line...
BunBun and I worked on the old dog lot yesterday...cleaning and building some places to climb and play...
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Not looking quite so naked, BunBun is beginning to look a little furry again...
We added an old chair so I can hold him. The next big step!
A fun day!
BunBun agreed that we need to paint his benches and house and the old chair with pretty Easter colors...
A few spring pictures from yesterday...
Now here it is Wednesday morning, another beautiful day ahead, and I need to get busy. My new vacuum cleaner arrived yesterday. I should be delighted, right?
The last five days I've tried terribly hard to post something on my blog, but then I read it and think "no way"! So, thank you if you've stayed this far. I appreciate your friendship so much!
Love,
Henny
Most days I can't think of a darned thing to put on my blog. Today, there are several little useless things to tell you. Gosh, there's a duck story, and a Dumperoo story...well, mostly Dumperoo pictures. I wanted to talk about dieting and eating healthy and how totally out of control I am. Then there's the weather. Somebody needs to talk about this 26 degree freezing weather we've got coming tomorrow, and since I am the authority on the weather...just kidding...but seriously, the peach trees are in bloom. What are we going to do?
Now this is not useless information...my daughter Lynn. Today is her birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LYNN!
I borrowed this picture of Lynn from her blog today at "a mother's journal.com".
Would you just look at that mile high ice cream pie! Seeing this picture ruined any chance I may have had at sticking to a diet today. Love you anyway Lynn! It was Lynn who helped me with this blog.
Lynn is a kind, sweet, loving daughter...and always has a smile on her face. She has pretty freckles too...
Wanted to post a baby picture but searched the house over and could not find one. Seems like I remember giving Lynn and Andee all their baby pictures.
Dumperoo was a big sweetie pie last night...
He knows he's my boy and is so handsome, even with lint on his face.
Well I didn't quite cover all I wanted to talk about. Hopefully there is tomorrow.
That cold front is coming through right now. It's rainy, windy, and miserable outside. The temperature will be dropping throughout the day.
Thank you for visiting. Hope to be back soon.
Love,
Henny
Mama would not appreciate my posting a picture of her in her house dress. But she looks beautiful, doesn't she?
Mama always said, "however your Monday starts off, that's how your whole week will be". I believe her!
On Monday, Poppy had to be in a company meeting in Durham. He rode with his boss. Around noon I drove to Durham and spent a little time with Shelby. Then Shelby and I drove to pick up Poppy at 4:00.
Mama would say, "I just despise to have to go somewhere on Monday. It ruins the whole week".
Tuesday, Poppy was off work. We drove to Henderson to pick up prescriptions and buy a few groceries. Arrived back home to chaos all day! Ever have a day when everything gets on your nerves? :(
Crazy as yesterday was, I managed somehow to get the Stargazer Lilies planted. Nine bulbs. Last summer I
fell in love with this big beautiful lily that bloomed in the back yard...
Can't wait to see nine more blooming this summer!
Now this morning, Eli has an appointment with the groomer. Out and about again...I dropped him off around 8:30 and went on to Walmart for the things we didn't get yesterday!
Funny Eli! Six months ago I had to beg and plead to get him in the back seat of the car. Even used the old carrot on a stick method...except ham instead of a carrot! Now he gets his leash on, hears the words "bye bye" and he jumps from the top step on the front porch with me hanging on and drags me to the car.
It is finally beginning to look like spring here...
The rose bushes have new growth...
and a flowering quince blooming for the first time...
and now the weather people are saying the temperature could drop down to 28 degrees Saturday night. This is the end of March in North Carolina, for goodness sake!
Oh my. Better get busy. The groomer will be calling for me to pick up Eli soon...and I still need to vacuum. Thank you. I appreciate you all so much!
Love,
Henny
I like Fridays. Poppy goes in to work at 10:00 am and gets off at 7:00 pm. Normally I can get everything done; housework, yard work, animals cared for, our salads made, and then, hallelujah, an hour or so of uninterrupted time on the computer. But not today! We needed a few groceries and a bag or two of animal feed. A stop at Walmart and the feed store is all it takes to blow that bit of extra time I was so looking forward to.
Seeing as how I am bound and determined to post a little something on my blog today, guess it will have to be about what we have more of around here...animals!
While somebody was sound asleep, a kitty cat crept in, stole Eli's teddy bear, and crept out. Who is that little thief...
Looks like Eli will have to sleep with one eye open from now on...
Mokey said he slept right through the heist...
Eli has now gained up to 113 pounds and he is 14 months old. When is a dog considered grown? Wonder if he will get any taller. We've read that Pyrenees can weigh up to 160 pounds. Wouldn't that be something! He's already about to outgrow our teeny tiny house. Guess we'll manage somehow.
Okay, I've had my minute at the computer. Better get going. Hope to be back with some really interesting post. That would be a first! Thank you for not crossing me off yet.
Love,
Henny
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