Country Girl

On the drive home today I pulled off to check my messages, 

I didn't have to, I was looking for any reason to stay 

in the country just a wee bit longer. I lingered a while, 

smelled the fresh air and inhaled the beauty. 

I turned to take one last look, got back in my car

and headed for home. One day I hope to live in the

country again, until then I'm grateful to be able

to sneak away to visit. The saying 

"You can take the girl out of the country, 

but you can't take the country out of the girl"

rings true with me. 

Doing What I Had to Do

I smile at some photos when I take a look at them, 

some even make me laugh, such as this one.

No keys? No worries as long as you have 

a piece of wire.  

On a more somber note, I did what I set out to do this trip back home. 

I hadn't visited my Mothers graveside since we buried her almost 11

years ago, it was time so I did what I had to do and went to 

pay my respects. My father is also buried here...

My father passed on when I was four and a half years old, 

I never realized until now that his birth date was July 29th, 

I knew his DOD was Sept. 11, 1967; that date has always

been embedded in my mind. 

RIP Mom and Dad, you're loved and missed. 

A photo of the cemetery; this is an old country site,
 one which after looking at this photo I
think that I'd like to plant a row of trees in the back...

The old wooden sign which marks the grounds:

In the right corner there's about 6 or so graves, 
2 of them are my parents and way over in the back
there's a few graves as well. 

The Journey Continues

I left the farm and headed further north today, it was a 

beautiful day for a road trip.

I traveled on a secondary highway, 

traffic was light and it was smooth sailing. 

Once I arrived at my destination the first thing 

unpacked was my camera, in the nick of time to

capture this woodpecker. 

Unfortunately there's a fire ban on, 

no fires for this happy camper this trip. 

All In a Day

 Today I headed out of the city, I wanted some of this...

I love being in the country, it feels like I'm

closer to God. I imagine in a way I am, there's

not much out here in terms of distracting the 

connection from the heart to the heavens. 

Generally most people have dogs in their back yard for friendship,

love, protection or what not... not at this farm. Here's the latest

addition to the farm...and yup, they're staying in the back yard

until their pen is built. No worries though, they're so small and 

the yard is huge (only worries are for whomever is 

going to be cleaning up after these animals and it sure

won't be me!)

Now some might think that I had my hand in training this wee horse,

 it has a huge attitude for its wee size; I think he thinks he's a stallion! 

Both horses need to be trained, now that I may have a part in

and then what? They'll both think they're Clydesdale's? ;-)

I must admit, they're adorable but after seeing these two horses in the 

back yard and after seeing chicks in the living room, I have to ask ... 

what next? Or do I really want to know? 

Rick, this one if for you... our crocuses are coming up nicely this year! 

All this and then some in one beautiful 

glorious day! 

On The Road Again

Another beautiful day in my city...

I was here, there and a bit of everywhere today but I 

immensely enjoyed the people I encountered; dropping off

a few things at my daughters for next weekends party; getting

my hair done, and coming home to pack up... road trip time 

in the morning! I love my road trips when the weather is

this beautiful... I turn up the tunes as loud as they'll go,

I open my car windows and let my golden brown curls 

blow in the wind. The taste of freedom sets in and ohhhhh 

what a feeling! 

This song just popped into my head. :-)

Oak Ridge Boys

Today was a full, fun, music filled day. The first part of my afternoon was spent

at the Metis Festival. Metis peoples from Alberta, Saskatchewan, The NWT, 

as well as a few other places gathered today to watch not only jiggers compete, 

but we all were treated to violin music played by children, teens and adults alike. I

learned that today was World Wide Violin day so in keeping with this I'm going 

to share one photo of a violin player. 

I'm having problems picking just one, but I'm going

to limit myself to one violin player. hmmmm

There's something about this fella that makes him

my choice of a photo to post tonight. 

Now if you noticed what I titled tonight's post you may be

wondering what in the heck does this Metis Festival have to do with

the Oak Ridge Boys. It has one thing in common, both involved music

and music I like makes my heart dance. 

So from the Metis Festival I headed straight over to a dear

friends, changed and got ready to take in a show. I got to

see the Oak Ridge Boys under a HUGE tent top! How

cool is that?

The final song of the evening was Elvira, the Boys

had everyone on their feet!

It's been a wonderful day and now I'm exhausted, I never

realized how tiring it could be doing something I love to do...

spending time with awesome friends and listening to some

mighty fine music. 

Sister's New Home

Today my youngest sister took possession of her 

new home, it's gorgeous! There was a few snags naturally.

Somebody forgot to inform the cement guys that the move-in

 date was today, they went and poured the driveway and sidewalks

this morning before my sister and her husband arrived.

This made moving extremely difficult, there was a ramp 

put up on the side of the house vs. going in through the garage doors. 

As it happens today is her husbands birthday, sweet birthday

gift! This room will be his to do with as he pleases, they have

his and her living rooms! Awesome concept. 

Congratulations Cat and Barry, wishing you all many happy years

in your new beautiful home.  Oh and Happy Birthday Old Man! :-)

(My brother-in-laws birthday is nine days before mine so every

year for eight days I get to tease him about how old he is, then

I catch up to him and have to hush up for another year!) 

Word Verification

I apologize for having to turn on word verification, obviously these spammers don't 

know who they're messing with! 

I have connections, I'll call in the rest of the Crew if

I ever figure out who in the heck they are; til then

it's word verification. I truly apologize, personally 

I DETEST word verification but I've been getting

spam here 3, sometimes 4, times a day and 

enough is enough. 

Looking for Purpose

No I'm not personally looking for purpose, I feel I have purpose in 

my life already. What I am looking for purpose of is these 

decorative things, is there any purpose or are they just 

decorations in the flower bed? 

I was thinking of maybe putting bird seed in these, but that

won't be a good idea to attract all sorts of birds into my flower bed.

Then I was thinking well maybe I could put a potted plant on 

these, but they might be too heavy. Does anyone have any idea

what these are for? I'm baffled. 

Beautiful Glorious Summer?

I'm not complaining by no means, but it seems we've skipped our spring

and summer has arrived and I'm loving every single second of it. 

My nephew even mowed the lawn yesterday, today I cleaned

the flower beds again and found my clematis sprouting. I'm so

happy it's growing, I thought it might not come up as I've tired to

grow these before and haven't had much luck. 

The trees are coming to life...

And for a bit of color, here's a few photos of my Mothers 

Day flowers from my wonderful children.

I took this arrangement outside today to get some

fresh air and sunshine. 

Does anyone know if this type of a plant will grow outside? I'm

not sure what it's called, but it's sure pretty. 

And one last photo before I call it a day...

"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul."

  

~The Koran