Spring is officially here...

So far for the month of March we have received over 23 inches of rain...The dry creek bed is flowing the creek is flowing and flooding. The ground is saturated and everything is soaking wet! We need a little break about now to let the sun shine and let things grow. I know we have been in an extreme drought the past 2 years but getting all this rain at one time is not a good thing. It needs to pace itself out over time and not come all at once. I hope this isn't the end of the rain either but I sure wish we'd get some sun and a little break.

 

 

Michael had a friend over this past week (their spring break) and they went looking for fish in the dry creek bed that isn't dry anymore...

 

They found some bluegill in the grass.

 

I got out today (Sunday) and took some wildflower photos!

 

Buckeye in the wildflowers

 

What it looks outside our back door. I just can't bring myself to mow it down!

 

 

 

 

 

The bees are busy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael checking out the flooded Coleto Creek.

 

 

 

 

 

 The dogs with my boy in the wildflowers. I didn't ask Michael to pose I just went out to get photos of the flowers and they all followed me. Then Michael asked where I wanted him and I was like this is so cool. Last year I had to beg him and I still don't think I got one...

 

Later this evening I went out to see what else I could find...

Dew Berry Bloom

 

The Dew berries are going to be thick...

 

 

 

 

 Hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes have already hatched and they are waiting in the grass.

 

 A doe watching me...

 The grass is thigh high around here and so very thick. We are going to let it go to seed before we mow it down. Soon this will be fenced off and pasture for the heifers and horse!

 

 

Sure was nice to see the sun today!! Looks like it is going to be a really nice week!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring

Officially it isn't spring yet but in my heart and soul it is Spring!!

 

 

 

I love Spring!!

 

 

 

 

 

 



I think I finally found a Veterinarian...

Julie, my horse, use to see the vet at least once a year. She had a check up and her teeth floated. She went more often if she got sick or something happened. I also had a stock trailer back then that was road safe. My stock trailer is no longer road safe and Julie thankfully has been healthy except for last fall when she had a bout of sand colic. Emergency vet house calls are outrageously priced but it's also hard to find a vet to do house calls. Julie needs her teeth floated (filed) to keep her healthy and chewing her food like she should. On facebook last week someone posted a Mobile vet that was having a special on teeth floating. I called and we set up an appointment for him to come out. Today was the day. His name is Dr. Hanselman and his wife works with him. They did an awesome job. I also talked to him about the heifer calves and he vaccinated them for me too! It was great meeting him and his wife. It is nice to know there is a another large animal vet in the area and he makes house calls.  

His prices were reasonable too but him being mobile is awesome!!

 

 

 

 

South Texas Large Animal Mobile Veterinary Services, PLLC​

Dr. Hanselman

He is out of Port Lavaca a little bit of a drive but not too bad. I hope we have a long future together and he and his wife stay in the area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Beautiful colors around here...

Some of these I took over at Goliad State Park and some of them I took just outside our front door this evening...The bluebonnets just started popping up last week around here and I am loving it!

 

 

Simply Amazing!!

 

 

 



A peek

Just a few photos of what is happening around here...

Don't mind the mess, sometimes you have a mess before the end results!

 

 

One of two views from our Bedroom! I love windows!

 

 

 Totally and utterly disappointed that I didn't upload Minecraft to his laptop, Uh Oh! Love that he ended up outside for the evening and playing.

Dancing in the Living room/Great room whatever you want to call it!!

 

We are getting closer and closer to having the barndominium finished!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



A whole lot of rain, Wow!

I've been absent from here and I apologize. We are in the process of finishing off the barn to live in it. I hired a friend of my families that lives here as a contractor and he is doing an awesome job getting everything lined up. Hopefully in 2 to 3 weeks we'll be living in our barndominium and I need to start calling it our house as that is what it will be from here on out! It is all so unreal and I sure wish my Mother was here to share it with us...I think she would be happy!

 

I did take a few photos here and there...and Today and yesterday we got 9 and 2/10ths inches of rain, Wow! I have seen 6 inches of rain but never 9+ it is awesome!

 

 

 Spotted this dayflower with a fly on it the other day!

 

 

 One of our Grandbabies was out the other day! We had fun with Julie. He was smiling and laughing. He loved riding her. I need to get her brushed out. I hope he comes back for some more horse time!

 

 

 This was our dry creek bed early in the afternoon. So sweet to see water flowing in it.

 

 

 This is Coleto Creek this evening right before dark. Our live creek that has been bone dry for 2 years. It was flowing last year for a couple of days when we got 3 inches of rain but within days it was dry again. Now with 9+ inches of rain it is really flowing. We hope it stays flowing this time and we continue to get rain from now on. Would be nice to do some fishing and Kayaking.

 

 

I've been finding bluebonnet blooms here and there. Soon the back pasture should be covered in blooms! Oh so pretty!

 

 

I will be back to share photos of the barndominium soon!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Evening photos...

Spring is in the air and even though we keep getting cold fronts I am finding signs of spring and loving it...My favorite time of year.

 Blue flax

 Poison Crow foot

Harvester ants are busy and in attack mode! My photo session didn't last long as I got up and danced and stomped getting them off my boots and cardboard.

Prickly Poppy plant

 I managed to find one Prickly Poppy bloom, one of my Mothers favorite Wildflowers.

 Dinner time and last one to the feed pan is a rotten egg...Pringle was the rotten egg!!

 Almost time to plant the garden...

 We found this silhouette of a Pump Jack for Fred.

 

The Chicken herder...

A few of the chickens before they snuck past the chicken herder and made it to the barn deck...Uh Oh!