Friday, July 25, 2014 –

Potted flowers really starting to bloom

Some of the peach trees in the foreground have really taken off, while others struggle to stay alive. Beyond the pool you can see the corn growing–or what’s left of it after the horses broke into the yard one night.

Colorful beach towels hanging out to dry on the back fence.

The sweet meat squash starting to spread beyond its bed.

This sunflower seems to smiling.

A bit of garden bounty.

Carolina with free time for legos.

A gathering of toads on the back porch under the air conditioner.

Stockton shows off our first “chocolate” bell pepper. (he still won’t eat them, no matter what they’re called)

Cool evenings after the heat of the day is past.

Aspen’s chocolate orpington rooster, Little Don, roosting on the garden box, is nothing but fluff.

After a long days work, Cimarron, Laredo and Nathan gang up on the mowing.

When you’re on night duty, you have to catch an early morning nap.

Saturday, July 12, 2014 –

We had a nice time attending the beautiful wedding of some of our good friends. I snapped a few pictures on my phone while we were at the reception.

Susan and Greg Ramsey

Brent and Delane Brown

Nathan and Brent talking cow prices and the weather.

Laura Davidson and grandson, Trenton

Look how cute Carolina looked in her Regency-style dress.

I have a fun phone app called magisto. You can put together fun videos really quickly. If you don’t put your own together, the app will create one for you and surprise you with the results. This video was one of those surprise videos. It’s kind of amusing how it was put together and the music chosen. I thought it was kind of funny. You might get a kick out of it, too. Plus, it has pictures of Jordan and her dress which somehow have now gotten deleted off my phone.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 –

Stockton learned to vacuum the pool today. He did a very good job. We’ve figured out that you can just submerge the vacuum hose, getting all the air out, then cover the end with your hand and pull it out quickly. It starts a strong suction that continues as long as we’re careful not to raise up the end too high. While it sucks water and we run the vacuum head over the sides and bottom of the pool, the dirty water is run into one of the garden beds. No electricity is used at all. It’s so much easier than trying to hook onto the filter pump and changing the filter bag continually.

hello! I’m very sorry for not posting sooner than now,I’ve been really busy with all my daily duties,helping Aspen with all her pet birds,making sure Coconut and Gypsy don’t start a fight and catching Teddy over and over and over Etc. Etc. Etc. more on that later.Now to what all the plants have been doing these past weeks that I haven’t been posting *drum roll please.* Da Da Ta Da!!!

A very pretty red flower who’s name escapes me at the moment….

A plant called elephant ears.

A rose of sharon bush.

A white crepe myrtle.

Some little flowers who’s name I’ve also forgotten. When I was littler, I would always call them barbie bouquets:^).

A big sunflower growing in our garden.

Our pool all nice and blue,cool,refreshing…….

Maggie,Big Boy and Hershey some of Aspen’s critters.

Some of Stockton’s lizards,Bruiser and Aqua.

Stockton’s fishes.

Little Don who is nothing but feathers, trust me I know.

And now for the one and only… TEDDY THE WONDER CHICKEN!I should have named him Houdini because he can get out of pretty much anything,if you don’t believe it just read this.He got out of a wire cage,so I moved him to a different cage,he got out of that too,I moved him in with Aspen’s meat chickens,he got out of that as well and I moved him in with the Called ducks and every time i put him somewhere he always ended up back in the front yard so now he’s king of the front yard. So there you have it all the pretty flowers and a circus star (Or soon to be.)

~Lots of love~

~Carolina