Thank You Connie!

What a nice surprise I found in my mailbox today! Connie sent me a beautiful windchime and I am betting this crafty, talented lady made it herself. Connie thank you so much. You are always doing and giving to others in so many ways. I don't know how you find the time to do all you do. I am so blessed to have you as a blog neighbor and a friend. The gift of the windchime is just an extra bonus. I went out and sat on my back porch and though there wasn't any wind I enjoyed just looking at the sun hitting all the colors. I was always taught what goes around comes around so you should be covered up in wonderful blessings. Thank you again for thinking of me and I will think of you everytime I am on my back porch (which will be all the time!)

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Juliet(pea hen) has decided she is in love with the handyman. He has been putting lattice around the bottom of the porch and she has been standing right there with him. If he goes to the tool shed she follows him. If he walks home for something she follows him and waits outside his door for him to come out and then follows him back here. When I went out this afternoon to water I didn't see her. Then I heard her "honking" from outside the handyman's door. She was waiting for him to come out but he was home for the day. I had to walk her back home and close her up in her pen. Just goes to show nothing is normal around here

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It is finally cooling off so I am going out to sit on my back porch. Enjoy my windchime and listen to the animals settling in for the night.

I am not a happy cat! Mom decided it was a great ideal to turn the deck into a porch with part of it screened in. See this door?Not only is it keeping me from taking my naps in the soft chairs, its keeping my feeder out where EVERYBODY can help themselves. I wonder what chicken taste like???

Hopefully mom will figure out where to put our feeder so we can eat and not have to worry about the chickens finding it. It better be soon or we are going to go on strike and mom won't be getting any mice, squirrels or snake gifts! If you see mom tell her she is not being fair to me, Dimples or Tiger will ya? Thanks, Whiskers

The screen door goes up tomorrow. This project will hopefully come to a end in a couple of days.

Another corner of the porch.

Paula

has a couple additions to her homestead. I think they like their new home alot! Joni has a awesome sight on her way to town and like a good blogger has her camera ready. Have you ever had or heard of a goober burger? Teri has and from the photos it looks really good.

We have been busy today. William helps with the feeding, watering and milking and then we make a quick run to haul off the garbage, mail some soaps, and pick up alfalfa for the goats. Back home we hook up the water and electric to the motorhome so I can start cleaning and fixing it up. We also go get the last of the huge logs from when we cut firewood. William will split them later. Another hot and humid day that we managed to get things done anyway. I am beginning to think a tropical storm would be nice. We put some eggs under Killer as she is wanting to sit on all the hens eggs again. Sister Sister is wanting to sit too so I gave her 5 eggs. Already have Betsy sitting on 6 so if they all hatch I should have plenty of chickens. Momma Kitty is starting to teach baby kitty how to protect herself. Its so fun to watch the two of them together. Baby kitty doesn't want to learn anything right now. She just wants to sleep and eat. She is so fat her belly drags the floor when she walks. Momma Kitty may be young but she is sure being a good mommy.

A Sneak Peek and a Little Rain

A little more screening to put up, hang the screen door, hang the porch light and the inside of the back porch will be finished. One section is done so I being impatient decided to set up the table and chairs. Well you can't just have a table and chairs sitting there looking lonely and bare so I hung some of my ferns and the windchime I got from a scavenger exchange I took part in and a couple of my plants setting in the corner. So here is a sneak peek of one corner of the back porch.

And we actually got some rain today. Not alot but enough to give the last of the living plants a good drink and cool things just a little. I went out on the back porch and listened to the rain hitting the tin roof. I am really looking forward to fall's cool weather and rain cause I know where I am going to be!