Come on Spring!!!

Another wet rainy weekend is on the way out! At least it wasn't frozen precipt. This is the view out of my living room window right now. It is really kinda gloomy this time of year. This is a gorgeous rock wall that my husband and I built a couple of summers ago. For those of you who have been to my house or seen pictures of my flower beds, you all know this is not how I like this rock wall to look. It needs to be full and overflowing with flowers to make me REALLY happy!

My plans for this year were to just keep trying to add a few more perennials so I could eventually have beds that weren't quite so expensive. I had decided to keep my annual purchases to a minimum if at all possible. TRASH those ideas! We are going to be on the garden tour this spring! Funny, huh? We may be sorry about the middle of May.

Everyone knows how when you plan a party or a big gathering that it makes you clean the windows and the ceiling fans...... you do don't you? This was kinda my thought for this garden thing. Hope it doesn't backfire! Ha! We are going to have more projects going in the next three months than most people try to do in a year.....

This is my husband, Brad and he is building a new flowerbed around this tree which is connected to waaaaay to many other flower beds in our front yard. I don't need anymore flower beds!!!!! We have a drainage problem from the house gutters here, so this is the solution. I think I might need some plastic flowers...... don't throw away those memorial flowers. I can use them!

I am not only passionate about rocks and flowers and gardening, but I also love to feed the birds in our back yard. We are fortunate to have surroundings that are bird friendly and we are trying to continually plant things and build things with the birds and other critters in mind.

As you can probably see by the look on this little guys face he has been unsuccessful in his search for food today. He might just be dangerous! (I also have a fetish for little cast iron critters.) :) My daughter will KILL ME if I put too much stuff around though.... so I do have to be careful.

It is such a pleasure to be able to look out my living room window and see birds feeding on the bird feeders, in the flower beds, along the rock wall, on the back porch.... just everywhere.

We can hardly wait until spring so we can get out the feeders for the hummingbirds. We had tons of them last year! I mean tons!At least 30 or 40 birds at a time were around our feeders. Is that tons? I had a lot of fun taking pictures of the hummers last year and I hope to be able to take a lot more of them if my little birdie friends decide to come back to my feeders! Wish us luck and birds!

Oh.... and by the way, I would like to invite everyone to try to 'do' the Green Country Garden Club Tour. The dates for the tour are May 31st and June 1st. If anyone is interested in a good aerobic workout or some serious strength training in the next few months just look me up and I will work up a nice exercise program for you. (Hope you don't mind a little dirt under your fingernails.)

Any and all ideas are appreciated. You can comment on this post or e-mail me at haircutr57@aol.com. If you have any perennials that you want to share I would be much obliged to except them.... as long as they are not something you are REALLY trying to get rid of.

Fun in the Sun!

I really had fun visiting my daughter in Albuquerque. Too bad they couldn't have named the city something shorter that I could spell a little easier. Sorry Brandy if you don't get much mail from me. :)

Brandy needed to take food to a Superbowl Party. Cookie dough is a real problem for us so guess what? We made cookie dough! Fun! Tastes as good as it looks....

We visited the Petroglyph National Monument west of Albuquerque on Saturday and had a nice little hike. I doesn't look like much at first but it was worth the trip to see. And... a little exercise never hurts!
Flew home on Sunday to 'No More Snow' and now just awaiting the next visit out there.... ha!

Well I guess Bartlesville got hit by a good snow storm on thursday. No this is not a picture of the snow but of the clouds out the window of the plane I was 'gettin out of town on'. I left home at 5:15 thursday morning and could hardly see on the way into Dewey. It was the kind of blinding snowfall that tends to hypnotize a person. I was surely hoping that I did not have to drive all the way to Tulsa @ 30 mph. Fortunately, it turned to rain about 10 miles out of B'ville. By the way Tanna, just in case you were looking to build our yearly snowman, I am in Albuquerque visiting Brandy. Sorry..... I do hope there will be another good snowman snow.... so we can create!

Was hoping to see around a bit today while Brandy was in school, but... her car had different ideas. It decided to opt for a visit to a mechanic for some reason today. Just when you think you've got the world by the tail! So you know what I spent the day doing, don't ya? Oh well, just glad I was here so I could help her out and she didn't even have to miss school!

Just helped her make cookies shaped like footballs for a SuperBowl party she is going to on Sunday. There went the diet! Tomorrow we will lace them with frosting.... hopefully we will get some of it on the cookies. :)

Last weekend I drove Kansas to see my 98 year old Grandma. Grandma Jo is what everyone has always called her. Ella Josephine is her real name. Had a good visit at her house and helped her to do a lot of things that she can't see to do herself. If you get a birthday card from her in the next few days I might have written you a note in it myself!

I headed home on Monday afternoon and had to stop a few times for photo 'opps' that I thought were kinda interesting. That is what happens when you travel by yourself.... 'ya just do whatever ya want ta'.



I have admired this old tree for many years and have always wanted to stop for pics... so I did. Ended up thinking the fence post was just as nice a subject so maybe I will post nicer pics of the tree some other day. :)





Another one of the things I find interesting are all of the old barns that are still around. The only thing better than photographing them would be to get to crawl through the fence and dig around inside of them. Not interested in doing jail time just yet so I will save that thought for another day.....
Wouldn't this barn be a wonderful background for doing senior pics or something like that????
Better git to bed as I think we might do the Bandelier National Monument tomorrow. Indian Petroglyphs if you are wondering. May do it and may not. Might just be lazy for a change...............