Poppy and a few animals

Good grief! I am so far behind with reading posts and posting. Maybe I'll just pretend I'm not, and start here...

We were at the hospital at 6:15 Monday morning. Poppy came through his surgery fine, and honestly, I think they must have prescribed happy pills for him. He has not been this cheerful and happy and talkative in years.

Saying hello here and still looking a little high from the anesthesia. I'm sure the nurses in the recovery room were glad to see us leave. It sounded like a party going on from the time he started coming off the anesthesia until we got out of there. Folks coming off anesthesia can sure say some funny things!

When I asked Eli if he wanted to play in the Goat's lot, he grabbed his bear. Wanted to carry back-up this time.

Smokey watching from his post...

I said once, no more big bones but on Sunday, Poppy brought home surprises...

One for Eli and one for Weetie...

These floors will never be the same.

I'm really in need of something fun and interesting to talk about. Maybe when spring and gardening time gets here...

Thank you for stopping by.

Love,
Henny

A silly animal post

Darned if the days don't simply fly past! Yesterday it was one appointment after the other. First it was me rushing out the door for my doctor's appointment. Then Poppy left to get the taxes done. Then there were groceries to buy. Then Poppy went to town for a hair cut. Poppy said he didn't want to look like (his very words) "fido's ass" Monday when he goes in the hospital for sinus surgery. Sorry.

Eli kept barking and barking this morning from inside the goat's lot.

Thinking I had better check...last time it was a pig walking up the road. This time it was the grey goat with a pile of hay on her head.

Now it's hard to see all that hay on her head between her horns, but trust me she is a funny sight. A sight Eli didn't like.

"Don't be frightened Eli", said the rooster. "I'm not frightened".

Okay! The hay's gone! Silly dog.

Well, mama needs to let me outta here. Silly goats!

This little sweetie pie had his follow up visit to the Vet. He's doing fine and good to go now...hopefully for a quite a while. Glad to be done with all those old shots.

It was a cold 17 degrees here this morning, which is very cold for here in NC. The high winds almost blew the chairs off the raggedy old pier.

With an icy pond.

I appreciate your visiting and hope you will come back. Hope too that I will be back, and soon.

Love,
Henny

silly dog

Out and about with a cup of cold coffee

It was 7:59 when I pulled into the parking lot at the doctor's office this morning. Nah, I'm not sick, at least not to my knowledge, it was just to get blood work done before my yearly physical. Nothing like getting this stuff done and over with early in the morning. Besides, that first cup of coffee had to wait until after my blood was drawn...that will get you in a hurry! Can you drink cold coffee? I fixed my big mug of coffee as usual this morning and carried it with me. Even cold and about two hours old, it was still downright good...

Leaving the doctor's office I swung by the, combination, "seed store and license plate agency" to hang more bonnets and aprons. Sorry I've never taken a picture of that place to show you. Just about everybody in the county goes in there and while standing in line they can't help but see the aprons and bonnets hanging on a rod above the front window. Occasionally, Jimmy, the store's manager, comes in Food Lion where Poppy works and hands Poppy a little wad of money to bring home to me. Yep, spending money. My spending money, and that's exactly what I do with that money. 

Finishing up at the seed store I did a little grocery shopping, then came home to begin the day's work...still sipping on that cold coffee. Couldn't help but think about Mama. She used to sip on her cold coffee all morning. Mama enjoyed dipping her toast or biscuit in the coffee, and so do I.

Yesterday morning, at least I think it was yesterday, when Eli and I were out early, this was the sky we saw. I came running back inside for the camera. Poppy said, you have enough pictures of the sky on your blog. But seriously, this one was breathtaking. The colors change so quickly and had already gone from a fire red to orange and it was still mostly dark outside...

And one more thing. Look who enjoyed the new pine straw...curled up in the warm sun under a thorny rose bush...

and stretching out, curling those sweet little back feet...

Okay, I simply must get busy. We've had rain this morning but now looks like the sun may come out. It's very very windy! In fact, the weatherman predicted gusts up to 45 mph. Hope the roots on these tall trees around the cabin can hang on in this wet ground.

Thank you. Hope to be back soon.

Love,

Henny

A brown post

Just finished spreading those two truck loads of pine straw in the goat's lot.

Now I don't know how a goat feels about walking on a bed of pine needles, but it looks to me like it would feel mighty good. Pine straw looks warm and cozy. This summer when the temperatures are in the high 90's I may feel different about all this brown.

Still working on the lay of the land out here...

One of these days we may be looking uphill instead of downhill, when we look out the kitchen window. :)

Chickadees, the little acrobats, don't mind telling you to hurry and move on. This one and a few others fussed at me the entire time...

Cardinals too were waiting for me to go away...

and even a Mockingbird tried to shoo me away... 

It drives me crazy that all the wooden posts in the yard have turned green. That ugly green. Must be the shade and moisture. Wonder if I could scrub everything with a stiff brush and Clorox water. Now that's a job to add to my "to do" list. Good gosh! 

There's plenty of help around here. All you have to do is slow down for a minute...

Guess this will be a "brown post". Speaking of brown, I've just made myself a cup of hot cocoa to help me feel warm again. The temperature was 33 when I went outside to work. Wasn't long before my heavy coat was unbuttoned. Then I had to come out of that heavy coat...down to my sweater and long sleeved tee shirt. Hauling that last load of straw, I was downright warm. In the house now, I feel chilled to the bone.

Once again it's about time for Poppy. Need to be thinking of something for supper. 

Sure is good to have you to talk to. Thank you for stopping by. 

Love,
Henny

Another fast day!

Dear Friends,

I have about fifteen minutes here before Poppy gets home. This is his late night...works til 7:00. Supper is ready and waiting.

It has been twelve hours since my feet hit the floor this morning. I do believe this is the first time I've actually sat down during this twelve hours...well except for driving in to town to grocery shop and buy feed.

It's been a sunny but cold and very windy day. A good day for taking the bedspreads and quilts off the bed and hanging them on the clothesline to sun. That was my first job this morning, and probably what got me going. Then the curtains hanging on the french doors, well I just had to wash those dirty things...I don't know what struck me but I even dusted the dining room chairs and china cabinet. 

It was in the midst of my cleaning frenzy, that the neighbor called and asked if I would mind moving my car out of the driveway...that he had raked up two more truck loads of pine straw.  Wow! That's five loads, and I have a place for it all! These last two loads will cover the entire goat lot...wonder how that will look? For sure better than the leaves and Mr. Eli's big feet will stay clean. The goat lot is where Eli plays.

Somebody put Smokey's mouse in the bowl on the coffee table...

Probably Poppy, again.

Better get busy.  :)

Thank you for putting up with me. Hope to be back soon...with something a little more interesting to talk about.

Love,
Henny

Our big snow...flurries

The days go by so fast! Sometimes I feel like all I do is open and close curtains! Seriously!

Gosh, that big snow storm moving up the east coast! Seems like North Carolina is always just outside the snow line. Oh, we've got snow this morning. Let me show you...

This is how our snow usually looks...

Getting this amount of snow is fine with me now. A few years ago however, if the weatherman called for snow and this is all that fell, we would be furious! We used to wish and hope and pray for snow. We dreamed about playing outside, building a snowman, making snow cream...praying that the snow would at least be enough to close the schools and give us a good excuse for not going in to work. But most of the time around here all that excitement turns to sadness as the snow melts as fast as it hits the ground.

Old sweety pie did get to run through the falling snow flakes early this morning...

The towel I left on the porch for drying his feet...he snatched up and brought inside and into his chair, wet feet and all...

and, we're going to whip Poppy for throwing the towel over Eli's head...

We have had a few beautiful snow storms in the past. In the year 2000 we got a shocking twenty inches. Poppy and I thoroughly enjoyed that big snow. 

That was back when Nikki and Susie were still with us. Big Nicki was part wolf and just the sweetest dog ever! Eli reminds us a lot of Nikki...

Both Nikki and Susie were special dogs. We still miss them.

I appreciate your stopping by. Better get busy. I don't quite know how to act...Eli is at the groomer's and Poppy is at work...all this free time!

Love,
Henny

Poppy's Birthday and Andee's Christmas

Looks like I'll be stuck inside for a day or two as the rain has just started to fall again. Can't complain though, we've had several warm beautiful days this week. 

Poppy is the news of the day...well actually he was the news of yesterday, his birthday. The 22nd...

Seeing as how we seldom eat out, and it being Poppy's birthday, we decided to ride to Wake Forest and eat lunch at the "Olive Garden". We, especially me, or so I thought, enjoyed getting out of the house. The food was delicious!

The waitresses were going to sing Happy Birthday to Poppy until I said, oh, you don't have to do that. Are you sure, asked the waitress. Oh, sure. When we got back to the truck, Poppy said, I can't believe you didn't want them sing Happy Birthday to me. Gosh, I felt terrible. My thinking was that I had saved us a lot of embarrassment!

In other news, at the end of this month Andee can finally pick up her Christmas present from Todd...

This big sweet baby boy, a "Golden Retriever". He will be eight weeks old and old enough to come home with Andee...

Andee's expression here looks like "awhhhh"! Reminds me of the day we brought Eli home. Can't you just smell that puppy smell?

Little Smokey's surgery has not slowed him down one bit. He got a little sweeter maybe...

I'm afraid there hasn't been a lot of fun exciting stuff to post lately and my blog has become pretty dull. Guess I should be thankful that I haven't burned up any more pots or anything like that. Thank you for stopping by. Please do come back. I appreciate your friendship so very much.

Love,
Henny