In Texas we get ready for
Spring in February !!
We had just gone to Lowe's
and bought vegetable plants, flower six-packs, grass seed, topsoil to fill
the ruts the chickens had dug in the back yard and a couple of plum trees
already blossoming. |
Our front shrub bed.
We put pine bark mulch in there last year but the chickens scratched it
all out, so this year it's white marble chunks. I wanna see 'em scratch
that out!! |
Justine is great with crafts.
She got the idea for these picket fence flower boxes from one of her craft
books, and we built them together. Marigolds go well with the sunflower
yellow trim on the house. |
Our kitchen window in the
rear by the back door. We have a radio on the flower box so we can
listen to music while we're working or playing in the back yard.
That's a Giant Texas Fire Ant climbing on the flower box. :o)
(it's rubber) |
Our mailbox by the road
with our windmill egg sign and bird house in the background. The highway
department accidentally ran over this mailbox in 2003 and the new one they
replaced it with is silver. They moved the windmill up against the fence,
also, claiming it was an accident hazzard. |
The barbecue has a prominent
place on the back porch. In the summer (and winter, too!) I do a lot of
the cooking outside. Many a steak, pork chop, bratwurst, and brisket
has been burnt to a crisp in this pit!! |
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