Spring blooms still beautiful...

These blooms are our first apple blossoms. It's sad that we have to pick them but the tree isn't old enough to bear fruit.


The weeping cherry tree will be beautiful soon.

These little guys are weeds. There are some solid purple and the variegated white and purple. The are tiny pansys and they are all over the yard--I just hate mowing over them.



We also have blue bells in quite a few nooks because when we moved here my mom brought some of hers over and we planted them everywhere.

The red bud trees are so pretty against the gray backdrop of the trees that haven't put on the new leaves yet.


Spring time blessings to you all from the holler...

Wednesday with less words...

Monday night JP and I were in the office and he said something like "look at her." Luckily I was able to grab the camera and snap a few shots as Violet emerged from her cocoon. Who knows how she got in there..

The look on that face gets her out of all kinds of trouble. Blessings from the holler...

We're loving this spring...

Corrie is convinced that she is solar powered. Since the sun has been so warm she gets in her spot and won't come in unless she is forced.


I saw this idea in a recent magazine. After pruning the peach trees I brought some twigs in that had buds on them, put them in water and in a few days I got to have spring blooms inside. It is supposed to work for any budding tree or bush, give it a try! I think forsythias would be beautiful.

JP bought some massive shelving for the garage, we put them together and we got most of that area straightened up. This inspired me to give my sewing area a much needed redo!
Before -
After -
It's amazing how junked up I had let this area get but now it's beautiful and I'm ready to get one of my unfinished projects out and sew some.

JP took some days off last week and we got so many chores done. He said the other day that our next post should be titled "hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go." Spring brings so many chores with it but the warm weather makes it nice. We cut up some trees that fell during the winter and hauled them to our burn area, pruned the peach trees some more, mowed the yard, and washed and waxed the truck - well, almost done with that one. Oh, JP smoked three slabs of ribs and they were delicious. The days off were very productive and now it's back to regular stuff. But, all in all it was a very nice time. We are so blessed and thankful for all God has provided. Blessings to you all - it's springtime in the holler...
p.s. thanks to JP for changing the blog background over to spring too!

Say hello to my new friend...

We just got this cart/dump cart and put it together last weekend. As soon as it was hooked up to the mower JP was headed out for a test drive. It's going to be so handy - when I go out to the garden I can pile all my stuff in there and drive it out there. I've been lugging my tools in a bucket. Then when harvest time comes it takes many trips up and down the hill. But not anymore, I'm stylin' and profilin.' I've already used it when I planted some elderberry bushes and replaced some blueberry bushes the other day.

We're ready for spring and excited that it's supposed to be in the 70's for a couple days. Yeehaw and blessings to you all from the holler...

Girls only today...

Today was the day of days I dread each year. Have you guessed what it is yet? Oh, I think you know,,,mammography day. It's like scheduling humiliation. I heard statements like "okay, relax" and "be real still!" Smart remarks are going thru my head but I didn't dare voice them because she was IN CONTROL. I also suffer from nervous laughter, it's a curse, I can't help it. In times when I should be serious, high pressure, it's all I can do (and most times don't) not to just laugh until I cry. But really, did she expect me to relax AND did she think I was going to run out of the room when she had my boob in her vice grip?

First, you go in and they tell you to put on THE TOP. It's only a "top" in the sense that it's fabric on your top half. There are no sleeves, your uh "test subjects" are there ready to be laid on the uh alter. Next, you get to be repositioned like about 18 times so I just start looking around at the pictures and counting the ceiling tiles (anything but start laughing.) Have you noticed that the vice grip - like alter is clear? I'm sure there's a reason for that other that finding out just exactly how flat your boob can be.

Well, that's all the rambling I've got for today, this day of days. Oh my, if you've never had this procedure done, ignore the above and let me know how it goes. I think if I have some chocolate I'll feel better. Sorry, the only pictures taken today haven't been developed yet. Blessings to you all from the holler...........

Thankful Friday...

I missed Thankful Thursday but I think any and everyday is a good day to be thankful. As always, we are abundantly blessed by The Lord. Spring is on it's way and we are being blessed by the first blooms in the yard. Our forsythia reminds me of yellow fireworks!

Today I finished a blanket for a very special baby. Some people we know opened their home as a foster home a couple of years ago. Then, as God would have it, they were able to adopt the sweet baby girl that they raised from just a few weeks old. She is a delight to all and her grandma is taking special care to spoil her as is her duty.

Speedbump is smiling to show you her fresh cleaned teeth. She is happy to be home but the girls at our vets office spoil her when she's there so she doesn't mind going at all.

Isn't it nice to hear that there are good things that happen in this world filled with trouble? I don't want to ever take these simple blessings for granted - - new baby in a family, spring flowers, and our Bump having clean teeth. Make sure to count your blessings; it'll make you smile like Bump! Weekend blessings to you all from the holler...

Quiet little signs of spring...

If I hadn't walked up the hill I would have missed these little crocuses. They are so short I wouldn't have seen them except I saw their bright yellow heads!

The first to bloom in the front flower bed are the buttercups.


Blessings from the holler...