A little peak at what we've been doing this past week....

 

Union Station Chicago Illinois!!!

We arrived by train and left by train (Amtrak)...The story of the past week will be posted soon but I wanted to share a few photos from part of our day on March 21st...

 

 

God Bless the U.S.A.

 

We ate lunch here...pretty good pizza!

 

I thought of Fred when I saw the Dunkin doughnut sign, he loves Dunkin doughnuts!

 

Michael always 20 steps ahead of me...

 

That is what he thinks of my photo taking..

 

Chicago Illinois...

 

More photos of our week to come and also the rest of the story....

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is blooming around here...

 

 

 

The blue bonnets are just starting to come up. I expect by next Saturday the whole back pasture will be blue...I can't wait!

 

 

 

I found a little dayflower in the blue bonnet plants....

 

 

 

In the garden area I have several plants blooming, so love the colors!!

 

 

And my seedlings are growing. I won't be able to plant them until next weekend. I hope they do okay until I can get them in the ground.

 

Here's hoping y'all have a great weekend!!

Pray for rain!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A family vacation...

This past weekend, for 4 days, we took a family vacation. Fred came with us, the first time in 3 years and it was so nice to have some quality R&R with him. Dawn, Skeeter and the kiddo's met us and we all had a great time in one of our favorite places, Vanderpool Texas (Texas Hill Country). We rented a house on the Sabinal river and enjoyed ourselves.

 

 

Hwy 337 coming in to Vanderpool...beautiful!

 

 

 

My happy boys!

 

Sabinal River, it had some water in it but not much! We sure do need some rain!

 

 

Vinca which is grown for the vine not the flower thus vinca vine per my Mother as this is not a wildflower.

Dacey and Michael trying to figure out how to get Michael's fish off the hook!

 

 

Enjoying the hot tub on a chilly night.

 

 

Dacey, Trey and Michael enjoying the Sabinal river in the early morning.

 

 

She has grown up to be a beautiful young lady!!

 

 

 

Dawn, Skeeter, Trey and Dacey...

 

 

Dawn and I...

 

The view from the driveway of the house...We stayed at River Rock Ranch rented by Foxfire cabins.

 

 

Our last morning there, sigh!!

 

View from the front yard...

 

 

Heading home...We took 187 to 470 through Tarpley to Bandera...

 

 

 

It was nice to come home but sure wish our vacation could have been a bit longer. Always nice to get away and relax.

 

Lots of things going on around here and I hope to be back in another week to post more photos!

Y'all take care and enjoy the sunshine!!

 

 

 

 

 

Oh so busy...

 

I am so tired and oh so busy lately...So much happening lately and even more happening in the next month. I've been taking photos but just haven't had a minute to post.

I hope to start posting more in April and share with you what has been happening around here. We've been going from beautiful warm days (80's) to Cold (30's) and windy...But spring is in the air and the birds, butterflies and blooms know it!

 

 

My mother use to make Michael pillowcases out of the designs he liked. I got a used sewing machine last year and Mom thought it was time I started using it. So I've been learning to make Pillow cases. It's really easy and I've been having fun learning how to do it. Michael got 3 new pillow cases and I made 2 more, one for me and one for a friend. I think I can do it now with out Mom's help.

Michael loves the tanks and helicopters

 

 

I loved the horse pattern on this one...I love bright colors!

 

The wildflowers are coming up and here are a few photos I took today...

Oh so pretty, love the white fence too...

 

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Hopefully come April things will slow down a bit, maybe? I just remembered the garden, ekk. I got the potatoes planted as a frost won't really hurt them. I also put the zucchini and yellow squash seeds in, hopefully they won't sprout yet and we are done with freezes. But last year we kept getting freezes and frost up to April...So I may wait to put everything else in...

Hope y'all are getting some warmth and sunshine where ever you are...

 

 

 

 

Sphinx Moth...

 

I thought I got buzzed by a Hummingbird this evening but it was a Sphinx moth. They are almost as big as a hummingbird and they sure love the blooms on the Jasmine.

 

 

 

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Fishing fun...

 

I went over to Coleto Lake Reservoir this morning and fished with a friend....

 

We may not have caught much but we got to relax and enjoyed ourselves!!

Nice to know I haven't lost my touch!!

 

It's been over a year since our creek has dried up and I've been fishing! I have missed it!