This our road this morning when I woke up. It started last night about 9 with the first round of snow. the forecastors are thinking we might get 1-2 inches of snow. I say we got about 1/8 -inch of snow already. This is part of our driveway and looking down the road. I seen the muscovey this morning taking a snow bath......they try and take a bath everyday....cleaniness is a must......you have to look your best......I didn`t get a picture of this as I was just having my morning coffee.

This is Spunky, our bob-tailed cat wacthing for bird at the suet feeder , which you can barely see in the top left corner of the picture.....He thinks the tree is hiding him.....the birds are smarter then that. Yes , he is in the bird bath...another use I guess. This tree would have gone in the house ,but the space I put the tree wasn`t big enough....So the birds got it.

This is another picture of Spunky trying to watch the birds with Panther the black cat asking " Are You having any luck ? Panther is the oldest daughter`s cat, he was born on her birthday, he is rather small and enjoys riding in the basket on her bike down the road. i tried to get a bird at the feeder , but with the bird watcher there ............I don`t think so....

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.

introducing cricket....

This is the farm`s newest member to the family... Cricket, my oldest daughter`s dashund pup. She is about 8 weeks old and is a sweetheart. She so likes to snuggle, or rather loves too. She loves both girls so much. She is starting to get length on her, not very much height. She was the runt of the litter, so I am hoping she won`t get that big.

she was so lost without the girls yesterday, since it was the first day back from the Christmas/New Year break, when they got home, she wouldn`t let them out of her site, lol. I took her to school when I went and picked them up and she was so happy and so was the girls.The afghan she is laying on, is one of the girls and is since now Cricket`s. Last night my youngest was carrying cricket around all snug in the afghan like a little baby and saying look at my baby, lol

update on afghan....

This one is block 24, which is a vine of leaves.

This one is block 23

This is block 22, a heart of hearts

This is block 21

I am done with 5th row of the Baltimore Quilt afghan, and now working on the 4th row. It is getting especiality heavy, but it is realy warm under while I am crocheting a new row.

I did not get a picture of block 25 as of yet.

Happy New Year...

Ok , I didn`t greet the New Year in, I liked about 10 minutes in greeting it in, My brother from St louis called and woke me up at 12:10 this am, so I was alittle late, lol.
Happy New Year to everyone in blogland, may your year be filled with blessings of life and may you prosper beyond belief.

Dial-up and electronic devices

I am posting this half awake or is it half asleep...lol. I was up until 3:30 am getting the youngest daughter`s new ipod on the computer, which has been an ordeal. Needless to say it is still downloading on the computer......Have I mention how much I hate dial-up? It has took me awhile to be able to download just itunes 10.0...a newer version then my oldest daughter`s ipod. I had to delete some files I had on the computer before I could get the itunes to download and forward the phone to a cell...that the signal comes and goes....the joys of living in the ozarks, in which I love very much and wouldn`t change where I live and bring up my children.
Needless to say, it took all night just to download this new version of itunes and I still don`t have it installed on the computer.......I am close though , I think, lol.
I was and thought I was gonna sleep in, but I got up at 8;30 am , my hubby had it so hot in the house with the wood stove, I bet it was about 90 degrees in the house...too hot to sleep, lol...and he asked if he didn`t to put another log on the fire.....huh no. Hopefully one day she will be able to put songs on her ipod..... I have been going at this for about 3 or 4 days......itunes showed an error and I finally got a good answer from somebody and who told me I needed more space on my computer that why`s it wouldn`t let me download.....so I delete some games and some files I didn`t need anymore....now I am downloading the new software , so I can install it. I sure didn`t have this much trouble with the older daughter`s ipod.....I am about to fell asleep , so I will go for now and post this

rabbits....

I thought I post on the rabbits today. I put their cages out in the sun yesterday and clean out from under the cages. I thought ...mmm.. it would be nice to have some baby rabbits next month....as I thought I had a doe and a buck.....so I put the I took out the youngest daughter`s rabbit ( buck) and put in with the oldest daughter`s rabbit ( doe, I thought). I know you are suppose to put the doe with the buck. I thought if they were to start fighting I can take one out. The oldest daughter`s rabbit is a hoodoni of sorts, it will get out of the other cage. Needless to say in my surprize ....I have two buck rabbits. I guess I will have to find a doe somewhere. Some neighbors down the road have some rabbits, I am hoping I can trade one of the bucks for a doe.
I don`t know which one I will try and trade with as I like both of the bucks, lol.
I guess I will go for now.