Tonight's Sky

What's black and white and...

covered with a Golden Retriever?      If you guessed Boyd's newspaper, you're right!

 
Where is Buddy while Jasmine is getting all this attention?     Where else?

No matter the season!

Run, Jen, Run

Jen and Laura and I walk almost every night.  Jen and Laura run a portion of the trail, I am trying to keep up with them.  Last night, after we were being stalked by a deer that kept peeking around a bush and looking at us, we came across a snake.  Laura and Jen screamed, I moved and the dogs went crazy.  Jasmine is an expert at carrying snakes in her mouth without killing or harming the snake.  Not a trick I encourage at all.   Maggie tried to get at it, but Jen and Jasmine stopped her.  Jasmine was determined to keep it for herself.  She picked it up and most of it was squiggling and wiggling hanging from her mouth.  This freaked Jen out and you should have seen how fast she could suddenly run!  Jen kept yelling at me to get the snake out of the dog's mouth.  Yeah, right!   Well, when Jen started running, Jasmine started running, which got them both closer to Laura and she started running.  It was hysterical!   I told Boyd and he said he is going to start training speed racing snakes.  He thinks that will have us slimmed down in no time. 

No snakes in her mouth, but what a cute dog!

Up on the Housetop

Photos by Boyd.  Roof by Mike Gardner and sons.   Post by Becca :)   Look closely, you will actually see me in a picture.  AMAZING!

Tami and Jeff

Safflower Sunrise

To think that I missed it...

Just last Saturday night, after watching Cops, I asked Boyd if we could move somewhere more exciting.  Nothing violent, creepy, or otherwise unsafe happens around here.  And when it does, I miss it.  Even when it is happening right in the corn fields nearby.   If you want to get accurate details, ask Jen, Laura, Anndee or Jessica, but here is the story as I remember it.   Somehow a man ran from the rest stop across the highway into one of the numerous corn fields around here.  For a couple of hours a slew of cops were looking for the guy.  My sisters and niece were heading into town, they watched a cop go north past Baird's and as they headed south, saw a cop waiting in a car up ahead.  They must of known something was up, but I don't think they expected what happened next.  Their attention was drawn to the canal road where they saw what they thought was a naked man running down the road.  The three who weren't driving looked back to confirm he was indeed naked.   Jen then pulls close to the cop car parked to the side of the road and says, "Hey, is that naked guy the person who you're looking for?"  Sure enough!   I bet the ride into town was more thrilling than the movie they saw.
1st Moral of the story:  A car full of females (including a minor) is better at finding a naked man than all the veteran male cops in the county.  
2nd Moral of the story: Complaining brings results. I complained (as noted in prior post) that I hadn't seen any deer.  The next morning I saw five.   I complained that our neighborhood was boring.  Couple of days later, we have a crazy, naked man.   Believe you me, I am going to start complaining incessantly about not having enough money.   $$$$$$$$$$$ here we come!

Oh Deer!

Just last night, my sisters and I were commenting on how we hadn't seen any deer for a long while.  Mother Nature must have heard us because this morning I saw five.  I make it a habit to survey the farm as I walk out to do chores.  I want to be prepared in case there is something roaming around that my dogs would be likely to chase.  I looked way ahead to the bottom of the pasture and I wondered if that brown bush had always been there.  As I focused on the bush, it took off running.  Scared me to death and I wasn't even close.  That deer joined with four others, who wisely moved on out.  When I let the dogs out, Jasmine saw them, stared at them, but didn't bother chasing them. And yes, I broke my rule of "Always Carry a Camera" this morning.  So, these are deer that I have seen on the farm, but they may or may not be the ones I saw this morning.