Long Days! Short Nights!

There is a lot happening around the White House right now! The clock is ticking. I have two more days to work out in the yard before the Garden Tour. Luckily Brad is off this week.Things are really looking good around here. I went out of town this weekend to a family reunion in Kansas and Brad stayed home and WORKED HARD! He also went on the pre-Garden Tour. All of the home owners got together with the Garden Club members and toured the homes and then had a bar-b-que at one of the members homes. Of course I made it back in town in time for food! Ha!

I got home last night and he had painted the garage doors. They had been a blinding white color and now they are a wonderful light taupe color to match the window trim.

He had spread two dump truck loads of gravel in the back around the new waterfall he built LAST WEEK.

Here is a close up of the waterfall. Nice, huh? I bet all of our birds will really like it. Speaking of birds we have Bluebirds, Mockingbirds and Chickadees all nesting in the backyard. Those are just the ones we know about.

If you remember this new flowerbed in a previous post now you can see it newly planted. It even looks like it has been here awhile! Thanks Tom and Pat for the wood! I had to go outside this afternoon and work so now I am returning because it is too dark to do anything else today. Of course, even though we have been working really hard that doesn't mean that I don't stop and take time to...

smell the roses....

and the Bullfrogs....

and the Nanny Goats.....

and the baby goats.....

and the baby goats nursing the Nanny goats!!!!!!!!!

I am having lots of fun taking pictures during this 'getting ready for the Garden Tour'. I am also having a blast sharing them with you people out there who are reading my blog. Thanks! Think I am headed to bed shortly but before too long I will share a few pictures of my brothers recent 'Little Kids Fishing Derby'. I am sure you will love those. Until then...........

Whew! What A Day!!!!

Thanks a bunch, Lloyd and Jerry! You all are awesome. The Lays came to our house today to help us get the top put on the windmill.The windmill is finally up.... and what a nice bucket truck!

The BOSS says "up we go".

This was kinda scary. When Lloyd called me it wasn't too windy but five minutes later... guess what? WIND! This is me holding the rope. Recognize me???? We got the top on the windmill and guess where I ended up?

And guess who's shoes these are inside the bucket? MINE. Guess where I'm going? UP.

Guess where I'm going now??? Up more.

And more. What a wonderful view... I could take aerial photos for people from this bucket truck.

I took aerial photos for this bunch of yahoos. Hello down there, little people! Hi Gizmo. This is way too cool! Sure glad no one tried to moon me.

But.... I am having way too much fun and it is time to go DOWN now! Okay, I'm done playing and now the Lay's are headed home in their really nice bucket truck. You'all come back now, ya hear.
Thanks again for the help and also for letting me play with the truck. Yeah! What fun.

Not only did we get the windmill blades up, we also worked on a waterfall. Not sure if it will be up and running for the Garden Tour, but we will make a stab at it.

We were going to use the neighbors' tractor to dig the big hole but the tractor was 'broke'. So Brad had to dig it by hand. Yuk! But he got it done.

This is going to be a pondless waterfall. Hopefully... I'm sure it wil be. I think it will be. I'm almost positive it will be.

Of course it will be. This guy is the brains and the brawn behind another great project.

Enough of this work stuff. Now for a little bit of Flora and Fauna. Ha.

As you can probably tell, I surely do enjoy my hummingbirds. And my flowers. And the other birds. And your flowers. Anyones birds and flowers...

I'm not sure what kind of Iris this is but it is about medium height and the blooms are not near as large as the normal Iris. Gorgeous is what kind they are!

Amazing birds! I am working on the little guys so they will maybe decide it is okay for us to be this close to them.
The hummers come in really heavy about one hour before dark and fill up before bedtime. That's what I just did and now it's bedtime. Until we meet again...

Mother Nature Rocks!!!!!!!!!

Amazing things are out there just for our enjoyment! I am trying to enjoy them!!!! Check out this lizard. He let me come in real close for a Kodak moment.

And... the hummingbirds are back in full force! We are trying to get them to eat from our hands. We actually had some luck today. It is amazing to feel their little feet resting on your finger.

Here's that lizard again. Same lizard, different rock.

I am struggling a bit with the hummingbird photos. Bear with me and maybe I will get it figured out. As soon as the Garden Tour is over I hope to be able to spend some time with my camera and maybe learn a lot more about it.

This little guy was all over the place today. Still the same lizard. Another different rock. He seems pretty friendly...

This is my Allium now. They look really nice in my garden. I really want to cut some and bring them in the house but I am trying to resist as I don't have very many. More next year... ha!

It just doesn't get much cuter than a little girl. This is Emily and she came to the house today to visit and have her pictures made. She wasn't real interested is smiling but we had fun anyway.

This is Tucker and I went to her house last weekend, and she also got her pictures taken. These young ladies are Mother Natures work @ her finest!

Coming in for a landing. Please keep your seats belts fastened until the Captain turns off the fasten seat belt light.

Time out. Life is busy eating all day and trying to chase the rest of those guys away from all these feeders!

Waving goodbye! Bedtime... until next time. Oh wait, another baby picture.

Now we have our 'blankie' and can go to bed. Wait, one more picture.
This is Ella. She is Hunter and Tanna's sister. Her mother has a camera like mine. So far Ella is a whole lot better about having her picture made than her sister ever was...ha.