Hiatus

As you can see here, we have an abundance of birds at our feeders and these finches keep our feeders always a source of entertainment. The kitchen window has no ledge outside, but they are always trying to cling on and do try to fly in quite often. We have quite a few of the American finches also which are such a pretty yellow. We have robins nesting in the limber pine out front and bluebirds in the boxes out back. There is a feeder outside the living room windows also and needless to say, the cat loves to watch them from inside. I don't want to know what he does when the bugger goes outside. Hopefully he is too damn lazy to do much harm, but he has always been an outside/inside cat and howls unbearably if he is forced to stay in. We are in the ol' wild west after all. Last week I spotted a fox trotting down the middle of the street and he cut across west of the house to the north where he played in the sagebrush a while. We have the stream to our pond flowing again and we introduced some frogs to the pond last summer. The Mr. heard one croaking, so they evidently survived the winter.





I feel as if I have taken a leave, but honestly, the weather has had me in a funk. It has been a little depressing, not to mention that I have been wanting to do some things that my isolation doesn't allow. With gas skyrocketing even higher, I fear that will even further prevent me from getting out of town. Don't get me wrong, summer is on the horizon and I love summers here, but it is the only time I can get out of town and I am frustrated with the long winters here and the lack of things to do in the winter. If you happen to be a snowmobiler or a ski bum, or grandchildren to spoil, winters can be the most delightful time of the year I suppose. It is the middle of May and is still snowing and was about 27 degrees last evening. Yuk!!!

This is one of the bird houses which I am starting to paint finally. I want to put animals in the windows and along side of the barn.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day!! The Mr. and I went for lunch and if you click here on Erica, you will see what she did for me from Seattle. I did get lovely cards from Mike and Maggie and from Alexis. My birthday is soon and I have a friend (and twin) here sharing a birthday this week with me so we went to lunch today. Happy Birthday Ginger and Virginia!!!

My garden club met this week here and had a plant exchange....some of the members are still dealing with accumulations of snow so a plant exchange was a bit risky, but I did get some new plants and did get them in the ground. I made some blueberry cheesecake bars and one of Paula Deen's recipes for orange brownies. Yummy!! If you are familiar with the "lady" you know how she cooks. This recipe was no exception. You know a pound of butter in everything. They had a cream cheese orange icing. TO DIE FOR!!! This recipe will definitely go in my cookbook.
In spite of this cold damp spell.....

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own." - Charles Dickens