Elaine | June 8, 2009
Hole is filled ?! Most of you can tell from my posts that we have a really long driveway. We have also had some torrential rains this spring which have caused the gravel to wash out into the pasture. I raked what I could the other day but it was not near enough to [...]
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Elaine | June 5, 2009
Mowing I am so blessed to live where I live today. The sun is out in full force but due to the cold front the other day the high is only in the mid-70′s. It is absolutely glorious! I was getting a few chores done outside and asked Samuel to get a picture of [...]
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Elaine | June 3, 2009
Hummingbirds fighting over the feeder Around the end of April I saw a hummingbird try to visit the feeder that was hanging outside our picture window. I learned how to make nectar real quick and set it out there. We had one hummingbird for a long time and then two. We didn’t really know [...]
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Elaine | June 2, 2009
perfect laundry lifter My clothes line has been problematic for my perfectionist husband. It was sagging a lot in the middle, no matter how many times he re-stretched and re-strung it, so he designed me a laundry stick, or as he calls it “the jack-stick”, so there is no sag in the middle. [...]
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Elaine | June 1, 2009
Rooster on the run Well my little roos are becoming men. I was awakened Sunday morning to the sound of crowing. Not very good crowing but crowing none the less. Who ever it was did not get the whole crow out. He kind of sputtered at the end like a teenage boy getting his man [...]
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