Joy of Country Living

Since most of my week is spent in front of the computer – I always look forward to getting outside  and the weekend wasn’t a disappointment.  I always marvel a the color and size of  hydrangeas.  I have 3 large bushes and considering they’ve  been transplanted several times since we moved here – it’s a [...]

They say if you live long enough your bound to see (hear?) everything.  So I pose the question, “Do frogs scream?”.    Over the weekend I was stunned  to see a Ribbon Snake by the back gate with a mighty grip on a small frog.  Just as my foot hit the pavement – I saw the [...]

The weather today is perfect!  If you close your eyes you can almost imagine you are in either Colorado or California.  So it’s outside for me.  I’ve been wanting to clean out the daylily beds and today is the day. When we moved to the country I wanted to have as close to a maintenance free yard as possible [...]

Since today is the ‘First Day of Spring’ – I’m sitting down and making a list of the things I want to accomplish this weekend.  And, I finally found a weed-eater I think will work for more than 1 season.  It does not use a spool for the filament but has a head I can [...]

Lately, the weather here has been exceptional. Temperatures in the 60′s, clear blue skies and low humidity. The kind of weather you wouldn’t mind having all year round. The kind of weather that says, ‘Hey get off that computer and go outside . . . do something, anything – just get the heck out of [...]