Birds and Humming Bird Feeders...

Spring is here and yesterday I noticed more birds coming to out bird feeder. I have black oil sun flower seeds in this one feeder. The best place I have found to get seeds is the really big bags at Lowe's. BOSS - as some people know black oil sunflower seeds are also loved by our chickens and it is added nutrition for our goats. I use 3 to 1 on the sweet feed instead of buying Purina goat feed. That stuff is expensive and if this gives as good a nutritio factor for our goats, why not go for it. I need to get more bird feeders and differnt types of bird feed to attract a variety of birds.

Yesterday I was outside and a hummingbird buzzed our feeder. I guess it has been about a week that we hung up the hummingbird feeder. But the bird would not go to it while we were right there. But at least I know they are here in the south and looking for food. Our weather has still been cool in the morning and then warms up. The butterflies have been out and so that is what made me want to hang up the bird feeder now.

Have a great spring day!

Cowboys and Indians

Children are so inoccent and it is so much fun to watch children playing in there own little world. My husband and I don't believe and all the x-box and playstations. We live sort of in the country and on 13 acres, we want our children to get out and play. There would not be a childhood obesity epidemic if kids got out there and played. I know things are different then when we were young, you can not just send your kids out to play till dark. The world is even more scarier then ever. Which is qutie sad, I remember my Mamaw Lester leaving my cousin and I on her screened in porch playing. We were told to latch the screen door and leave it locked and she was just going to run up the street to bring my Papaw his lunch. This was in Benoit, Ms in the 70's, she could even call in her groceries to the grocery store up the road. Which was really neat! Very vaiguly I remember milk being being delievered in bottles in a metal crate with a handle. I was telling some girlfriends about this at lunch one day. They laughed and said my God how old are you? They never had any experiences like that and are around my age too. I thought how sad, but how fortunate I was to have that in my life. Such simplier times. It makes me wish for more of that. I guess that is why I love the country life we have made and the milking of goats, fresh eggs, growing our own food and fruits, etc.

Here is a picture of my husband and son playing cowboys and indians (just like the little army men my cousin and I played with on my grandmother's porch)

How can it be?

How can time fly so fast on so many levels? You hear that when you are younger, but it really sinks into me now....

Let's see a little over 20 years ago I graduated high school, I have two sisters 50 and over, I am the youngest of four girls and I am almost 40! That is hard to believe, although I don't feel any older than mid 30's. But I do know none of us are getting any younger. My dad for instance is going to turn 80 tomorrow. I can't believe that one. I don't think he looks his age either, I think it was about 6 years ago and he was jumping rope with Caitlin and Anne. To me that is great and I believe my sister and I told him so. He use to love to hunt and fish, I know he does not feel as good as he use to. And he is having a hard time with that too. I so picture him so much fooling with his boat and taking me fishing. Great memories, my oldest sister was not into the fishing as I remember it, my second to oldest sister if she went fishing, well I would not call it fishing, she brought a book! LOL! My sister that is just (well 10 years older than me) I remember her fishing some. But dont' remember her going alot with us either. Was it that my dad took me more because I showed interest? I still love to go fishing, we went fishing in Ark. on our vacation in July this past summer. Or is it that my parents were seperated and my dad took me to spend time with me and that time was his only time off too and his chance to get to do what his interest were. Which made them my interest too, because I love to fish, be outside, hunt and want to do even more of this as my kids get older and lean on me less and grow up out of toddlers. I wish my sisters were not all spread out, but that is how we are in all different states. I live closest to my dad. A job brought me back here and I am blessed to have it had work out that way too. I just don't know how much longer we have with him. God knows that answer and all we can do is spend our time with him and enjoy what time we have. I am just so glad he can still do all that he can. Not everyone is so blessed and that is so sad.

My oldest sister has a blog too, she has posted a pic of our dad smiling. This is not something he does alot of in pictures. But I was looking at some pics this past weekend and this is a pic I had to share....my dad....smiling....this is my nephew in the picture too. (the picture at the top of the post)