A Blooming

I think this is one of my favorite times of the year, when all the flowers are starting to bloom. 

It was a warm one today, but tomorrow is supposed to be even worse.  One thing that has been nice so far.  We will get a few days of warm then it will get back down to the 70's which is really nice!

Hope you have a great evening.

Gnomes and Fairies

A couple of years ago, I took one wheel barrel and had the fairies and the gnomes in it.  This year I separated them into two different barrels.  Now I have one that is gnomes and one that is fairies.  I added part of a tree to the gnome garden (one that we had to help a friend get off of her camp roof.) and the fairy garden I added rocks that were found in gem mines.

I'm BACK!

Well hello, I am finally back to blogging.  I have decided that spending my time on blogging is so much better than going to Facebook and spending all my time looking at the negativity on it! 

I have no pictures to share today, but tomorrow I hope to be back in the game and posting more often and more pictures.  I have even let my photo taking go to the way side.  Hopefully, I will get back into things and be a little more consistent in blogging! Have a great evening and hope to see you tomorrow with new content.

Gnomes

I decided to add to my patio area, a gnome garden in an old wheel barrow.  I don't remember where I saw this done.  I just loved it, so I had to try it for myself.  I think it turned out pretty well.  All my flowers are starting to bloom pretty nicely now.

I have decided to down size on the animals, I am going to give up the mule and the pony.  I will then be down to the old lady (Annie at 24 years), and then Sirocco.  I haven't been riding and doing much with the horses.  So, I think it is time to be done.  I will keep Annie until she passes and Sirocco for now.  I do hope to work with him more this summer, but I don't know if I will, I am still not riding him yet because after all these years I am still a novice rider and he needs an experienced rider.  NOT ME.  I will keep working with him from the ground.

Matt is still working and playing with the engines.  The son is right along with him, seems we do more on the weekends with engines than at home much.  Or we are running around doing errands. 

Hope you are having a great summer.

Engines

It hasn't stopped.  The hubby is still getting lots of engines to show.  This just happens to be one that he inherited from a close friend, that passed away and left all his toys to Matt, inside the building that was also included.   This is a large 10 horse engine.  One of the largest that he has, if not the largest.

We now have to buy a building to house all of his engines, plus any that he may get between now and the near future, if I know him :)

Hope you have a wonderful week.

LARGE trees!

Took a 6.5 hour drive to go see the Red Wood Trees in northern California.  I have never seen trees so large!  It was just awesome to be able to walk through them.   I had such a wonderful time going out to Washington and Oregon, along with California and spending the week with the hubby.  He missed coming home though.  He decided to stay out there and let me go see the sights.  He is only getting home every three weeks and that time it was 6 weeks before he got to come home.  Thanks to my wonderful husband, I got to see some wonderful country that I might not of been able to ever see!

Mount Saint Helens

I think the high point of my visit was Mount Saint Helens.  It was just beautiful but then you think about how ugly it was back in 1980 when it exploded.  You can still see some of the trees that were blown apart by the blast, and the desolate ground at the bottom of the gorge.  I never really thought much about the volcano until I went to see it.  I brought home this big coffee table book on the eruption and the destruction of the volcano with some awesome pictures and lots of history on the event.

Have a great day.