The Nursery

We have a lovely porch on our house (please ignore the large pole, not our idea, but its here to stay). Unfortunately the windows no longer open and we live in Southern Colorado and this porch has southern exposure, making it way too hot in the summer.

However, it is wonderful through the winter and early spring. It is nice and toasty and holds the heat well through the night, making it a perfect nursery for all kinds of things....

Like my seedlings! The tomatoes, watermelon and rhubarb seedlings are all loving the accomodations!

And our meat bird chicks! They are so warm that the heat lamp only has to run for a few hours in the early morning to keep them nice and warm!

And, finally, these little guys! Kittens born just yesterday out in the porch! What fun to have a nursery and see all the babies (plant and animal) growing and thriving!

The Birthday Gift

Happy birthday hubby! So much for the Keurig, guess Mr. Coffee will have to keep working a while longer...behold what Michael just received for his birthday instead: a 1969 International Loadstar retired fire truck. The town was looking to get rid of this thing so we acquired it for only $100.00! It does have a small issue starting, but other than that she's a cherry! Like-new interior and only 11,000 miles. It also has a water pump and hoses so we are hoping to use those around the place here. Right now the kids think its the best toy we ever bought them! I have actually been working on getting her back to her bright redness...the kids aren't as into that as they are climbing on it... With the lack of rain and the wind we are having here, it might come in handy for its original purpose too! Can we say fire danger!?!?

Learning

There has been a lot of learning and growing going on here. Punch has been learning which cats are friendly and which are not so friendly...

He is also learning where to find the good shady spots! Its been up into the 80's and even 90's, followed by days in the 40's and 50's so we are all going back and forth between shady spots and sunny places!

Blitzen has been learning about bindweed, its been sooo dry here this spring, but somehow the bindweed has managed to come up. I can't believe how big he is, he'll be 2 months next week!

Finally, I am learning once again to have some patience. Our cherry tree is in bloom, so warmer weather is hopefully here to stay, now just for some rain!!

The Garnets Won

novica

I'm a winner!!

I finally broke my losing streak of 29+ (++) years and won a fabulous gift card to Novica! Thanks to Andrea at Rural Revival! For those of you who haven't checked out Novica or Rural Revival...I highly recommend both!:) I am having a hard time deciding between garnets for myself or something else lovely for others...I have always loved garnets though...

In other news, got to spend the weekend with my brother, his wife and their two girls this weekend, it was so much fun to have them! This is as close to my kids get to cleaned up and picture ready...

We've planted some seeds this year and they are actually still alive, well, most are, we did have a small incident involving Punch and a tray of watermelon...but all and all things are growing! These little onion seedlings are so amazing! They came out of their little seed folded in half and now they are stretching out. We also planted some tomato, peppers, rhubarb and basil. Can't wait to taste the salsa this will hopefully all turn into!

For the love of books

As a lover of books, I have been anxiously awaiting the day when Pearl professes that she has found a wonderful book that she can't put down; I imagine this opening the door to indepth book discussions, me sharing the books I loved at her age, etc. etc. So, the other day I was SOOO happy to see Pearl and Evelyn with a big stack of books!! I figured they were going to snuggle in together, reading through their stack. Well, this is what I found a bit later on my kitchen floor:




Snuggled up together reading books? Nope, they were creating a ranch with the books acting as different pastures...guess I'll keep waiting.



In other news, here's the view out my living room window today. We are thankful for the moisture, but I am ready for some rain!!

Babies!!

We've had a very busy month here! First, a new puppy. He is an Aussie, we are calling him Punch. As you can see, he is fitting right in here with us, he found his favorite spot in front of the fire and is also loving being outside with Banjo on these nice days.

The other baby that arrived was a new little ram lamb born yesterday. We were so excited to have a healthy lamb born from the two lambs we bought last spring. He is doing very well and his momma seems to be very protective and attentive. We are thankful she decided to have him this week instead of a couple of weeks back when temps were so low!

We are getting ready to order some baby chicks, this warmer weather has been sooo nice!