signs of spring...photos

Oh spring, you are near.....

Yes, spring is around the corner. Here is a picture of some Easter Lillies coming up, I do have some more planted , but they don`t seem to be showing as of yet. It was nice today and I was gonna pull some weeds out and worked the raised beds some, but muddy as can be. The frost was alittle heavy this morning and so creates mud. Why can`t this happen in the summer when the gardens need it....lol of course then it would be called dew. I am so looking ofrward to spring and all the flowers , besides the garden vegetables....the ones bought in the store don`t have the same flavor as the ones from your own garden or per say a farmers market.

This is an Eagle flying , even though it don`t look like much. We had just gotten back from town and seen this Eagle flying and it perch on a tree and stopped so I can get a picture and it started flying. I just love to watch the Eagles soaring overhead. It makes me Proud to be An American when I see this national symbol soaring in the sky, free as can be. I also like looking at American Flags flowing in the wind like a kite on a summer`s day just floating in the wind and drifting as the wind takes it......Beautiful...is all I have to say.

Tonight is the first home game me and the girls will be attending. The youngest one is cheering tonight, the oldest opt out this year of being a cheerleader , even though she has said that she will help if needed. The oldest is having some knee trouble , don`t know what it is, a couple of days ago it was swollen alittle. She has had some trouble in the past with the knee hurting and got it x-rayed , but they didn`t find anything wrong, so if it still giving her trouble she will be going to the doctor hopefully tomorrow, if I can get her in. Somethings not right about it, I think it might be her knee cap not fusing like it is suppose to , But I don`t know.......

Dreaming of Spring......

Morning Glories in all the glory for spring.

These are just a sampling of whats to come in my yard.....I didn`t plant morning glories last year, but I am this year.......

R u ready for spring?....gardens

I am so ready for spring to come. I have been watching Victory Garden and am anxouis about digging in the dirt, planting vegetable seeds,...just seeing green on the ground instead of brown grass. Seeing the flowers around here bloom...... Oooh how pretty are the irises while they are in bloom, I have several different colors of them...purple, white which are so lovely..., yellow...............ohhh poo, it is only the first part of January. not April, May or even June. January is not the time to be diggin in the dirt, for one thing it will be frozen probably or so cold the fingers would wonder what I was thinking......

I guess I will have to wait till then. But it is so hard to wait for springtime......

I am gonna try and grow pumpkins this year in my garden, I would like to try two different kinds, but I don`t know if that will work and am thinking about growing some more gourds again as well...they make beautiful bird houses....as well as the normal things such as green onions, tomatoes and squash. This year hopefully I can expand my rasied beds to maybe a couple more beds, but I will have to wait and see how it goes. I use raised beds because of the rocks, in which we have plenty of here on the farm.

ahhh spring

I got up and ready to go to work and notice 2 of my cochins were out, caught them and put them back up, figured out why they was out later, that tale is later.
After I got off work ,I stopped by mom`s who was out working in her yard,She started to get a young walnut tree out of one of her flower beds, seen a snake ,spring is here snakes are out, needless to say killed it and got the young walnut tree out of her flower bed, they have such long roots, didn`t get all the roots, lol
Got home and started watered the chickens and noticed in one of the cochin pens was a dead rooster, something had gotten hold of it, no head, I say probably a coon, they are cute to look at and good to eat or so I have been told, no good for chickens or ducks.The rooster was a red rooster I had raised from last year.I then dug 3 holes to plant my blackberry and blueberry vines tomorrow in the garden and pick up a few rocks lol, That`s all that there is my garden ,That is way I am trying raised beds, Have had it tilled and the guy broke the tiller on the rocks.