The Horse factory is now in full swing. I won’t be sleeping again until after Christmas!
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Doctor’s Tools
It’s hard to believe Hubby’s been a John Deere Mechanic for 30 years.
Pre Holiday Stick Horse Sale!
Lil’s Garden is Having a Pre-Holiday Horse Sale!
Just type in this coupon code at check out at my Etsy site and save 10% on your whole order!
LGPREHOLIDAY10
Hurry! Sale expires 10/31/2013
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Oliver
My neighbor’s cat on our front step. His name is Oliver and he’s a lovable old cat who always wants in. I found out later that the former owners used to let Oliver in all the time.
Go the Motor Coach Way
A collection of faces from the antique bus barn at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union IL.
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Magpie
My black columbine from the old garden. I couldn’t leave it behind.
By the Light of the Silvery Moon…
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| photo courtesy my 5yr grandson Sean Davis |
Silver
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy coat the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.
– Walter de la Mare
Inherited Salvia
I’m not very fond of perennial Saliva, but I must say, it does look nice in full bloom and in a mass planting.
This came up in one of the two flower beds in my new yard. I assume this was the only thing the previous owners found that the deer wouldn’t eat.
Happier Than a Pig in ………
This is Steve, my hubby. He’s a John Deere mechanic. He loves to fix things. And being a mechanic who loves to fix things, he has acquired over the past 30 years quite an assortment of “fixer up” lawn mowers. He has a different lawn mower for every week of the month ( I even have my own lawn mower).
Now, here’s the dilemma he had. At our old house, we had a little tiny yard (most of it, ahem, garden) and it took about 5 whole minutes to cut the lawn.
You see, this mechanic also loves to cut grass. He loves it so much he would offer to cut the neighbors grass when he was done with our yard and then the vacant house’s grass across the street.
So when we moved into our new house, with it’s huge yard, well, you can probably imagine the joy he was feeling.
It now takes him over an hour on the rider to mow his lawn and swear I saw him grinning the whole time.
Happy Mowing Dear!
(…and after this shot, I looked out the window to see him cutting the neighbors strip of lawn across the street!)
Haircut Victim Recovering
Over the winter the deer decided they liked my variegated pink and green sedum I had growing in a little clay pot on my front porch. They ate it completely level with the dirt and were rolling it around trying to finish it off.
I stashed it away, between some bigger pots of dormant hostas by my back door to save it.
Well it lived, and thanks to it’s haircut, it’s growing quite vigorously.
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