Aren't computers just SO MUCH FUN!!!
I found loading pictures onto my blog was taking 10 minutes, per picture! I ask for wireless Internet
for my birthday and magically I got it!
Then we got 2 different viruses in 2 weeks and had to put the 'puter in the hospital for antibiotics and needed treatment.
Now I have it home healed, cured, healthy.
Now I will try to down load some pics, and see what happens. But watch out when you tell the computer geeks to save your pictures. They saved the pictures, but they are all mixed up! No dates, locations. All 6000! May take me awhile to find a picture to download?
The weinie roast
I am updating. This new pic is from last summer but I just love it. We were having an impromptu weinie roast in the yard. All my grands, my mother and my daughter were here. Everybody was light hearted and having fun and I just love the happiness in everyone's eyes.
I haven't kept up the blog this summer. It's hard to commit to a couple hours of sitting in front of the 'puter when animals need to be fed, mowing needs to be done, the sun is still up. Autumn means slow. Cooler temperatures, shorter days, nature settling down for a long winters nap. That also means I can spend more time in front of the 'puter without the "guilt" sign flashing in my mind.
We drove from Kansas to Cape Coral, Fla. this summer. Visited Hubsters' parents in Cape Coral Fla., then Key West and back to Kansas. I love Key West. Love the gardens, homes, beaches, watering holes, museums. Enjoyed a sunset cruise. I also like the drive down the Keys, even though it's a 4 hour drive. Love all the little places called "Captain ____" or "___ of the sea". Such a different world than anywhere near the "lane".
While we were in Fla. our poor garden suffered. Weeds were so thick and tall we couldn't tell where the good stuff was planted. Grasshoppers had eaten all the tomatoes and corn. Cinch bugs got the cucumbers, squash, zucchini. So we mowed the whole thing under and vowed to do better next year. We had help to feed the animals and I think they liked them better than us. When we got home they were all nervous and jumpy, (I think they were pretending to have hurt feelings).
Our third annual alpaca farm day was yesterday. Hubster was in Florida assisting his parents, so I was trying to do all the things before alpaca day that we both usually do. I spent several days mowing, trimming, and digging weeds. We invite the public to see the animals and get up close with them. Alpacas don't come running when you call their names, but when they hear the rattle of the feed bucket their people skills kick in. They are curious when children are around. They push each other in order to see children and take treats from children. They let children touch their noses and they don't spit at them!!! I guarantee if I tried to touch their noses I would get a hand full of foul spit!
We drove from Kansas to Cape Coral, Fla. this summer. Visited Hubsters' parents in Cape Coral Fla., then Key West and back to Kansas. I love Key West. Love the gardens, homes, beaches, watering holes, museums. Enjoyed a sunset cruise. I also like the drive down the Keys, even though it's a 4 hour drive. Love all the little places called "Captain ____" or "___ of the sea". Such a different world than anywhere near the "lane".
While we were in Fla. our poor garden suffered. Weeds were so thick and tall we couldn't tell where the good stuff was planted. Grasshoppers had eaten all the tomatoes and corn. Cinch bugs got the cucumbers, squash, zucchini. So we mowed the whole thing under and vowed to do better next year. We had help to feed the animals and I think they liked them better than us. When we got home they were all nervous and jumpy, (I think they were pretending to have hurt feelings).
Our third annual alpaca farm day was yesterday. Hubster was in Florida assisting his parents, so I was trying to do all the things before alpaca day that we both usually do. I spent several days mowing, trimming, and digging weeds. We invite the public to see the animals and get up close with them. Alpacas don't come running when you call their names, but when they hear the rattle of the feed bucket their people skills kick in. They are curious when children are around. They push each other in order to see children and take treats from children. They let children touch their noses and they don't spit at them!!! I guarantee if I tried to touch their noses I would get a hand full of foul spit!
City girl?
Click on this twice. My sis, me, mom.
I have always loved to camp.
My parents took my sister and I camping in a little pop-up trailer in the 60's. I remember lots of bees at a place called "Valley of Fire". I stood at the base of a huge tree in "Sequoia National Park". I remember the clatter of pots and pans as a bear invaded our neighbors campsite in "Yellowstone National Park". I heard (as a child) you could get water from the inside of a cactus. I wanted to taste that water. I got terrible little cactus splinters in my hands that my mother patiently tried to remove at a campground, somewhere, maybe Tenderfoot, Mom?
As a girl I participated in Girl Scout camping trips.
Later we hung a blanket up against a fence and slept outside in the backyard (remember the ant in your ear, Susie?).
Years later my daughter, my mom our extended family and I, traveled in a motorhome to Colorado and Wyoming. A picnic table anywhere was a great place to fry up a batch of fish and fried potatoes/onions on a Coleman stove.
My daughter and I camped by our favorite lake a couple nights before she got married.
But now... I can't sleep on the floor, need a BATHROOM in the middle of the night, like my coffee ready when I wake up, don't like dirt under my fingernails, really like a hot shower and electricity.
But I do love to camp.
We have babies everywhere! So much fun! Our Amanda had her baby Saturday morning. She is white with beige spots. So don't you think she should be named Freckles? Sophia had her baby 2 weeks ago and yet she has no name. Though Hubster calls her Little Missy. Maybe that will be her name!? Both GIRLS!!! But that means we will have to pay for a wedding some day, wink, wink.
Our pheasants are laying eggs all over their yard. But she sits on them for a day or so then realizes there are eggs over there, and over there, and over there and she doesn't know which ones to sit on!
In our bird house comes the little cheeps of sparrows. Everytime I walk onto my back patio, Mama bird flies away! I feel like I'm scaring a mother from her children!
The garden is more sparse than last year. Though we enlarged it we didn't plant as much. But!... The few things we planted are doing really well. We have already harvested zucchini and squash (I have a love/hate relationship with zucchini/squash). Hubster likes zucchini and squash but I can leave it. I don't get much taste at all. But I am finding pickling cucumbers and green tomatoes. I planted purple, orange, red, yellow peppers. Won't they look so cool in a basket on my island eventually?
I have a tub planted with herbs. It is growing so much. I don't know whether to trim them back or cut, freeze, dry. I could put it in a bottle of vinegar for flavored vinegars. Anybody got recipes for those neat bottles with herbs that seem so inviting?
Have lots of bags of alpaca fleece. I'll try to post more on that soon. For now its bedtime.
...farm living is the life for me! Sanetha
Life in the not so fast lane
Things have been busy on the lane, and not. Hubster retired. Finally and totally. If you think that means I have a resident chef, mower, laundry attendant, sweeper, gardener, or any other menial jobs, WRONG! Hubster has been gimping around on his knee. I have a big, lovable, toss pillow on the couch, with its knee on the ottoman.
We installed a storm shelter. Our plan was always to run to the living room closet. Now we have a 6'x 6' concrete hole. I can't think of any other reason to go down in there unless my life was in danger!
We planted the garden. Well almost. That pesky little thing called an eight hour work day keeps getting in the way of my garden. Tomatoes, pickling cucumbers, zucchini, squash, peppers have been planted, but little else. I did make a little herb garden out of a wash basin I'm quite proud of.
Rocky and I have been walking around the back pasture again. Twice Trapper has followed us around. Ever taken a cat for a walk? He has a short attention span. He walks a bit then sees a blade of grass that looks like something he should pounce on and I have to bring his attention back to our walk by calling his name numerous times. Tonight when I invited him on our walk he just looked at us and said "You just walk around in a circle. I'll stay here on this couch. Thank you for asking." Rocky went to the groomer last week. He is again the very handsome Sheltie he has always been.
Hubster forbids me from having him sheared again...
...like last summer.
We installed a storm shelter. Our plan was always to run to the living room closet. Now we have a 6'x 6' concrete hole. I can't think of any other reason to go down in there unless my life was in danger!
We planted the garden. Well almost. That pesky little thing called an eight hour work day keeps getting in the way of my garden. Tomatoes, pickling cucumbers, zucchini, squash, peppers have been planted, but little else. I did make a little herb garden out of a wash basin I'm quite proud of.
Rocky and I have been walking around the back pasture again. Twice Trapper has followed us around. Ever taken a cat for a walk? He has a short attention span. He walks a bit then sees a blade of grass that looks like something he should pounce on and I have to bring his attention back to our walk by calling his name numerous times. Tonight when I invited him on our walk he just looked at us and said "You just walk around in a circle. I'll stay here on this couch. Thank you for asking." Rocky went to the groomer last week. He is again the very handsome Sheltie he has always been.
Hubster forbids me from having him sheared again...
...like last summer.
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