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:

                                                              http://viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com/

                                                                       Saturday's Critters

     

& 

Stewart for:

  http://paying-ready-attention-gallery.blogspot.com.au/

     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!

Birds of the Field~

Taking a long leisurely drive in the country, en route to visit my home bound twin sister and also my 90 year old father-in-law, is what I have done every Monday and Friday mornings for nearly 8 years, and now every Monday, and any other day that I am needed.  
It is a long ride in, between 25 and 30 miles one way, and I am sorry to say, I hate taking the Interstate.  
So... I take the back roads, which may take longer, but it certainly is peaceful, most of the time, and I can almost always find something to photograph.
My final destination is in Jefferson County, but all of the images were taken in Oldham County, where we live, many at the beautiful Foxhollow Farm~

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I am linking up with Mary for:

"Mosaic Monday"

at: 

http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com
and

I am linking up with Stewart at:

Wild Bird Wednesday

(http://paying-ready-attention-gallery.blogspot.com.au/)

 

In this post I will be sharing Tree Swallows, Barn Swallows...some of my favorite birds.  There are lots of pretty Spring field images, that I pass as the seasons change.  I adore wildflowers, as well as bouquets, but oh do remember to spray with Cutter, or something equivalent, or you will end up with Chiggers...I promise and you will be miserable ;(

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Along with oodles of Tree Swallows and Barn Swallows, there are also Swifts and other insect loving birds, that swoop these fields, and sky above, for those nasty insects.  
These birds are my heroes!

Down in the reeds of the fields are found Red-winged Blackbirds, and also Eastern Meadowlarks~

 

 On this particular morning, I was surprised by several White-tailed Deer running in a field.  
All seemed heavy, and ready to give birth to their fawns any day~

 

 

 

 

There are usually a whole lot more Barn Swallows, but I had trouble locating them.

The Eastern Meadowlarks, sing me from Oldham County, all the way into Jefferson County, as I leave early, when they are also beginning their day~

Ha, I got this airplane image while getting my Killdeer captures, and so I thought, well it flies like a bird too, so keep it in the mix, just because~

No matter where I drove last week, with temperatures in the 90's in 48 of the US states, I would see birds with their mouths wide open, hoping for a cool down. 

Thankfully this week, looks like it will be cooler for all concerned. 

This morning began with 51'...very nice for late July.

Happy week, happy blessings, stay safe~