Please Don't Faint...Not a Single Bird~

Take your time, pour another cup of brew, maybe coffee, tea, or even some lemonade, fresh squeezed of course. Now just sit there, open a window let in some fresh air, listen to nature, possibly the songs of birds nearby.  That is what it is like right here on our land most days, morning, noon and evening too.  We purchased this land 36 years ago and built our home and moved her 35 years ago next month.  I remember like it was yesterday, the first time I walked out on the property...a small slice of wonder, right here before me every day...

What about you, do you have a favorite patch of land to call your own, do you have a favorite patch of land that you like to visit more than any other...I would love to hear all about it.

Remember to double click on the first image, to view a larger slideshow presentation after                                                                you have read the narratives~

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I'd Rather Be Birdin'

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Maggie's  MOSAIC MONDAY

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Wild Bird Wednesday

I have never owned a riding mower, but rather enjoy walking behind a self propelled lawn mower. Mowing wide swath of pathway is my favorite thing and it takes right at 5 hours over the course of two days for me to complete it.  I just recently got myself a weed-eater... Most of this land is touched with only using my hands and some kind of trimmers and garden glove, but most of the time, just bare handed~

Above is my dog mobile;)  When we got our third dog a year ago, we could still take all three in the back seat of the Lincoln Towncar, but as the pup grew we knew that would not last long and so we went looking for a dog-mobile and this Metallic Tangerine Element was the perfect choice~

This was when getting ready for and setting up for our yearly Family Day celebration~

Pout face because Ashleigh and Matty could not come back to KY for the big day~

The five grands had a great time, yard games, water games and cupcake decorating contest~

Outside tables were soon be filled with lots of goodies and no flying insects shall be allowed, no crawlers either.  The Barbie and Ken dolls are stand-ins for our Ashleigh and Matty~

Have you ever done something very stupid and lived to regret it?  I have had many of these plantings for years, some are brand new now and others survived my onslaught recently.  I went to the Lowes garden center and spoke with someone in the know about weed control, using organic products, safe for my flowers, bushes, ornamental plantings.  I did everything according to packaging instructions.  Many of these plants were lost, many of them were topped half way to the ground and some are still in a panic mode, thanks to me.  Goodness what a lesson to have learned~ 

Our beautiful, sweet Svetka has been here for nearly a year now and she is such a wonderful family member~

The twin grands with one of their three cats and their blind dog Zora, so sweet they all are~

Several weeks ago all five grands were invited with Ashleigh, Matty and myself to a friend's pool to swim.  Everyone had a marvelous time~

Just like family!!!

This lovely woman took my twin sister and I under her loving wing, along with her now deceased husband when we were young girls. They owned and ran the Indian Hills Riding Academy and my sister and I both rode horses there for several years.  I recently caught up with the family again and we all got to celebrate the 90th birthday of my dear friend Evelyn~

Beautiful daughter Ava, brother Daryl and their family~

Irvin Kaelin was the owner of the stables, also Evelyn's husband.  Below is Irvin's brother John, now 93 years young with his wife and one of their daughters.  I had not seen John for some 50 years and it was such a very special a time of celebration~

Citheronia regalis

Regal Moth as big as my hand, was in our yard and I moved it to safety for the afternoon away from birds and later it departed to compete it's journey~

Walking the dog, or in this case the horse and pony in Horse Country USA, Kentucky~

Working horses taking in the coolness of a breeze before storms arrived a little while later~

Burros and mules joined the working horses, all living together in happiness on the same farm land~

I am always having to stop and move Box Turtles and Water Turtles out of the lanes that I travel.  This one was quite large.  You are always to place the turtle on the safe side of the lane, in the direction in which it was going~

Family Day Celebration and a New Puppy Coming Soon~

On a personal note...I will see my surgeon on Monday and I am hoping after 7 long weeks of non-weight bearing walking, I will be released to walk without the use of the quad cane, but still use the compression hinged brace a while longer.  I am scheduled to have two more visits for Physical Therapy and I am feeling positive.  Cannot wait to begin walking again, though it will still be a while before I can maintain my normal routine...all is moving in the right direction...thankful hearts~

Remember to double click on the first image, to view a larger slideshow presentation after                                                                you have read the narratives~

                                                     I am joining in the fun with Eileen at:

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     Wild Bird Wednesday

The middle of June every year we celebrate Family Day and this year was great fun. The family decided to add to the festivities a cupcake decorating contest.  They enjoyed it so much, they said it needs to be on the agenda again next year~

A sweet little story to read with your morning coffee... A few years ago a little Long Coat German Shepherd puppy was born and her name was Janka, and she was very fragile and it was rough going for a couple of weeks. Yet with expert care by her owner Theresa, she survived and would be renamed Vou Vrey. She was always a special girl to my heart. She is the picture of health and beauty now, a lovely, wonderful dog! Then there came along a big handsome boy named Inaki and he also belongs to Theresa. He is an amazing, well structured, very happy boy! Now then as things happen after a few years, it was decided that a pairing of these two dogs would produce some amazing bloodlines. I had shared with Theresa, that if there was a small female in the litter, I would be interested. Four weeks ago Vou Vrey gave birth to 6 males and 2 females, one of which was very small and fragile. I knew right away, she was meant to be ours, but we had to first pray for a miracle in this little one, just as we had her mama before when she was a puppy. YES, we pray for animals! That little puppy is now doing great, so sweet, she is a survivor and Theresa says she is so brave, Bill and I have already named her Svetka Krommer and about 3 weeks from now, she will join Meaka and Silveit, as well as kitcat Survhee Pipka and be a part of this forever family. This will be the last pet addition to this family and we can hardly wait to meet our girl. Thank you so much Theresa Dettmer, we love you to the moon and back~

Silveit and Meaka cool it with their little wading pool, hot, hot hot already this Summer~

A little Tree Frog surprised me one morning as I weeded around my Hostas~

A pair of Killdeer brooded 4 eggs for nearly a month before all of them one day went missing~

Eastern Kingbird

Yellow-shafted Flicker~

Two weeks ago my dear friend Teressa Mussler​ 

invited me to her friend Nancy Smith​'s home 

in Crestwood. She grows thousands of Daylilies and they are magnificent. There was a tour of 8 Daylily gardens in KY that weekend and this was one of the homes selected. Some 600 people walked past these Lilies that Friday and Saturday, and they all had a real treat! Gorgeous! All of the Daylilies that bloomed each day have to be plucked at nightfall, as they are every day, and it takes two people an hour and a half to two hours to get the job done. I got to even taste a Lily and it was very nice. I would enjoy a salad with them in it just fine, and it would make the plucking of them worth a bit more as food, rather than going into the heap of them all spent after just one day of beautiful bloom time~

The twins came by and Cullen was trying his best to blow bubbles with non-bubble gum, while his brother Kerrick went looking for a ball to play with.  We found a Salamander in the garden while weeding also~

Yet another sad time here in these United States of America. The world has gone wild and we are right in the mix of it.  Texas is where I was based as an airline stewardess for Braniff International Airlines...my first home away from Kentucky, where I married my high school sweetheart after he returned from Viet Nam and it was so peaceful then...now it's heartbeat is beating even faster and innocents have been murdered.  My heart is thinking of so many innocent lives lost to violence in the country in the past months, it is getting worse and when will it ever stop...God bless us all!