*Happenings In My Neck Of The Woods*

Summer is here! I mean Spring, I mean Summer... whatever, it's semi-warm and there's beeb no snow... lately... so, let's just say it's Summer. That's what is says on the calender anyway.

So... Summer is here! And along with our "summer" comes floods, farming and lots of plants!

And when I say flooding I mean it. A few weeks ago Joey & I were heading home one way on our dirt road, at night, and all of a sudden the road just ended, I slammed on the brakes, stuck my head out the window and realized that it didn't end but it was "moving". The road was a river... or, the river took over the road. Either way, we had to turn around and take a 20 minute detour to get home. Now, it's the other way to our house that's hangin' on to being a "flood free" zone. Just barely hangin' on I might at. Check it out...

And check out some other pictures of where we live. Kinda pretty :)

 The other thing that has come from our newfound Summer time is some yummy smelling herbs... and strawberries... and peppers! I went wild with the planter herbs at the store. I am excited. I already used my chives to make Sour Cream & Chive dip to go along with my canned Homemade Salsa and Cheese Quesadillas we had for dinner the other night (delicious!). I took a few minutes one evening to plant my new plants and enjoy the mosquitos sun. I can't wait to use my Peppers, 2 kinds of Basil leaves, Cilantro, Rosemary & Lavender(for potpourri)

And our kittens are growing, eating hard food and ready to go! Cute little babies. I'll miss these little guys.

Joey has been busy getting all the pairs shipped to our summer grazing and keeping the pivot running smoothly (pretty much a daily battle). I've been missing the winter months of having him home by dinner time and not spending nights away from him. But, he's livin' his dream and who am I to complain right!? ;)

A litttle bit of July '09

I was in Radolph this last weekend and it was beautiful out and the horses were in the corral so I decided to take a couple pictures of the rest of our family....

Joey's two boys "Panama Red" & "Nibbs". They are 1/2 brothers and are always together.

The new addition to our family little "Vidalia" & her mom "Sarah"

She's precious. All legs...

And of course me in the hospital after getting my gallbladder removed. Wonderful times.

They made 4 incisions to get it out so I got some pretty nice drugs as you can tell in this picture I'm pretty out of it...