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!

Paper Dolls

The girls LOVE their paper dolls...for the last few years they have been playing with their Barbie fashion dolls, they've spent hours punching out dolls and clothes and accessories. Imagine their surprise when Grandma came over with the paper dolls she played with as a child...!

They've loved looking at the fashions from the 50's and 60's, one set is a wedding party set, very exciting!

They've already spent hours playing with the "new" dolls!

Evelyn and Golder Face

Here is Evelyn doing what she does best...taking care of the kittens!