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maryjane
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 Posted - Oct 29 2018 : 06:37:56 AM
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It's raining today. I'm glad for the moisture. We need it. I'd been watering trees again the last week (even with the cooler temps) because the soil is so dry.
Yesterday, I planted more garlic, tulips and daffodils while Nick ran a chainsaw most of the day. The area surrounding our B&B units desperately needed a good trim. He carried off what he trimmed to a burn pile using the new grapple hook on our tractor. We wish we'd purchased the grapple hook the day we purchased the tractor. It's been endlessly handy in a million ways.
Do you know what the world's largest living organism is? It's an 80,000-acre groove of aspen trees in Colorado (I've driven through it in the fall and it's stunning). The reason it was recently in the news is because it's dying. So, I paid a visit to the aspen grove I planted years ago to check on it (two were already here). We have three such groves and all are sending up new shoots which is a good thing and all three seem good and healthy. In just the last few days, their leaves have started to drop in earnest. They were a gorgeous color in their fall glory. Aspen trees connect beneath the ground as one big plant.
Well, when I put Miss Daisy back into the mix, all six critters found a place at the feeder. For some reason, that makes me feel more ready for winter than anything--a community of happy cows who all get along.
Lizzy objected to me taking a photo of her backend, but talking about it with your mouth full? It's a toss up girlfriend.
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MaryJane Butters, author of Milk Cow Kitchen ~ striving for the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain ~ |
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NellieBelle
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Posted - Oct 29 2018 : 07:15:45 AM
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| Nearly November. Good morning MaryJane! Pleasing photos this morning. Aspen trees are so pretty. Especially in the fall. Quaking Aspen. If I remember right, there's a story how they became named that. I planted Aspens here when I first moved here. Only two are still living and one of them is on it's last leg. New ones come up all the time. Nellie is giving me fits. She is having a heat. Being aggressive to the other to girls, mounting them, but they are paying her no mind, so I decided not to breed. She may just be having a heat, but still bred. I will see how she behaves next month. Went after alfalfa hay yesterday, got it put away. Have all my hummingbird feeders cleaned and put away until next spring, and we have the fencing ready for the steers so they can go into the other section of pasture. I still need to plant garlic but will just have to see how things go today. Sunshine and autumn colors here. Enjoy the day ahead! |
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine. Author Unknown |
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NellieBelle
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Posted - Oct 29 2018 : 07:21:07 AM
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| I guess it was a Ute Legend I was thinking of with the Aspen trees, but I'm sure I have a story about it around here somewhere. Anyway, watching the leaves quake and tremble in the wind is beautiful. |
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine. Author Unknown |
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Boots&Flipflops
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Posted - Oct 30 2018 : 11:13:24 AM
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Love the lineup MaryJane, too cute. I wish we were having a bit more fall like weather. The mornings are cooler, but 70's and 80's are getting old. 80's for this weekend again. We are also under a fire watch in the valley due to winds this afternoon and this evening. I guess it is what it is!!
With all the raspberries you have, do you do jam? Raspberry Thumbprint cookies come to mind. Tom would think he died and went to heaven
I may have to try and put some in. We'll see.
Cindy, keep your chin up. I hope all the "sunny days" outweigh the "cloudy days"
Blessings to All. |
To Succeed In This Life You Need Three Things: A Backbone, A Wish Bone and a Funny Bone. As quoted by Reba McEntire |
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maryjane
7072 Posts
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Posted - Oct 31 2018 : 4:29:06 PM
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So true Janet; the quaking sound the leaves on a Quaking Aspen make is one of the best. Plus the smell of a groove of aspen--nothing compares to that fecund, earthy, delicious smell.
Darla, we haven't made raspberry jam. None of us are big jam eaters, but I did make a raspberry crisp two nights ago. I take that back. Ashley and Brian put up a bunch of plum jam this year because their girls love it so much. We like our frozen raspberries in bowl with cream poured on top. Voila! the cream coats the frozen berries--instant raspberry ice cream.
Happy Halloween. Cydnie came as a cow, Lucas a gorilla, etc. (I was in my normal farmgirl attire).
Cute milk mug.
Actually, just like Keeley's poor cow, Cydnie is missing a teat. Why? Earlier she went to a party with a wine bag strapped to her mid-section, the spout coming out the hole where the teat was. You guessed it. She was a Franzia cow. |
MaryJane Butters, author of Milk Cow Kitchen ~ striving for the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain ~ |
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maryjane
7072 Posts
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Posted - Oct 31 2018 : 5:35:20 PM
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Adria getting her sass on and Alina looking like Hollywood.
At 11 a.m. this morning, out town barricaded Main Street so it would be free of cars by nightfall and our kids could trick or treat the businesses. Safer all around. |
MaryJane Butters, author of Milk Cow Kitchen ~ striving for the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain ~ |
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CloversMum
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Posted - Nov 02 2018 : 2:24:40 PM
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| Clover is going to be a grandma! Just found out today! |
Loving life and family on our Idaho farm, Meadowlark Heritage Farm; A few Jersey cows; a few alpacas; a few more goats, and even more ducks and chickens |
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txbikergirl
3197 Posts
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Posted - Nov 03 2018 : 2:50:49 PM
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happy late halloween everyone!
our wee one was a ballerina, the arm sling courtesy of the battle with the swingset last weekend. middle was a bat (she loves bats and owls!), and eldest was a country girl which was the easiest of all given where we live and she wears shoes and hats my size now (at 12!) ;>
my cold is officially gone. it circled back around to lover boy so he was down again thursday and friday. today he is on the mend. kids are all doing great, a few sniffles but nothing else.
your girls look so cute mary jane! our downtown also closed off the streets and had "scare on the square" so all the kids could trick r treat at all the merchants. our eldest's BFF has a wonderful aunt that i really adore, she is one of her primary caregivers, and so we met them downtown and hung out a bit.
they dont have a cast on wee one's arm yet. the doctor says protocol would suggest it, but if we dont mind the semi-hard shell and wrap he would rather see her each week and be able to unwrap and check it out... thats fine until she starting itching and scratching last night in bed and pulled it apart.. so we'll see if we wind up with a hard cast next week or not.
take care everyone, have a GREAT weekend! and go hug a cow to relax yourself ;> |
_(199x300)_(66x100).jpg?v 93697001) Firefly Hollow Farm , our little farmstead. Farmgirl living in the green piney woods of East Texas on 23 acres with a few jerseys, too many chickens, a pair of pugs and my Texan hubby (aka "lover boy") |
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maryjane
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Posted - Nov 04 2018 : 07:38:17 AM
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It's wonderful to be getting pics of your girls now, Cindy. Sounds like you may have raced your wee one to the ER with a broken arm. Never any fun. Sort of comes with the territory, it seems. And some kids are more accident prone than others. Whenever I hear the girls usual outside banter change, I always wonder, ER? I noticed your middle wears glasses. Stella has hers now and loves them. Even before she actually needed them, she was wearing great big fake "studious-looking" glasses that she'd bought in the mall.
Hoping Sally is pregnant and stays pregnant this time.
Congrats on BlueBelle's July due date, Charlene. |
MaryJane Butters, author of Milk Cow Kitchen ~ striving for the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain ~ |
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txbikergirl
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Posted - Nov 04 2018 : 5:47:37 PM
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happy sunday everyone! lover boy and i got away for 6 hours today for a date - movie and late lunch. splendid. the truck is soooo quiet it is strange driving down the road with out three little voices all talking at once.
yes maryjane, a week ago saturday it was a race to the ER for loverboy. he really wanted me to do it, i do 99% of the doctor/therapy stuff, but i was really feeling my cold then so that wasn't good for me or other ER victims.
middle does wear glasses, thankfully she loves them. last year it was hard as she was very physical and was breaking them, but that hasn't happened since last spring so her lovely glasses are staying lovely. our wee one so desperately wants glasses, so i am buying her some kid "zeros" online for christmas so she'll have a few sets.
we are back up to daytime highs of low 70s for the next few days, before heading down to 40 at night and mid-50s during the day. looking forward to a reason to have a real fire around here ;>
and yes, we are hopeful for sally. i just haven't wanted to mess with her. just give her love and let what will happen happen...
good night, sleep tight.
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Firefly Hollow Farm , our little farmstead. Farmgirl living in the green piney woods of East Texas on 23 acres with a few jerseys, too many chickens, a pair of pugs and my Texan hubby (aka "lover boy") |
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