A couple pictures from around the old farm.

Clover by the kitchen door. It grows everywhere on the property, of course.

The hole in this pecan tree looks to me like it could home an owl. Whether it's big enough for the Great Horned Owls we usually hear, I will probably never know. ^_^

Little purple flowers. Viola? Violet? They pop up all over the property.

Little white flowers, haha. They pop up like the purple flowers.

Little yellow flowers. I am so good, right? These pop up everywhere, like the others, pretty much all year long, anytime we let the grass grow.

Finally got hubby to make a few raised beds. Put broccoli transplants in the first one. My first time trying to grow broccoli from seed. Sorry if I said this before. Memory is what it is. I've had them covered because we've had a lot of wind and flirted with freezing temperatures. I don't know if these will expand. I took them on my phone. But maybe you can sort of see the broccoli transplants.
There are some home-made hoops out there now.
As you can see, right after I put the transplants out, we had quite a bit of rain. Was very happy the transplants were 4 inches higher than the water and mud.

Hope you all have a blessed week!

It really frustrates me

That America is so far gone that Toyota thinks that bank robbers escaping from the police is a good way to sell their cars.

On to less frustrating things.

Only white narcissus, or daffodils?, came up this year.

Hubby said he saw a snake poke its head out of this hole the other day, but either 57 was too cool for it to investigate me, or it has moved on..

Sparrows or wrens are checking out this old nest. I couldn't get close enough for a good picture. You might be able to see a bird just below and left of the nest.

We made a planting box and I set out some broccoli transplants. It's a new variety from Burpee called Royal Tenderette Hybrid. The grow small florets on long, thin stems. It was fortuitous that the new catalog had these in it; because hubby has decided, out of the blue, he prefers broccoli stems to the heads. This week has been in the 70s with nights in the mid to upper 50s. I went out to check them this morning. They seem to be doing fine.
While out there, I saw this bug. Thought it was a female mosquito at first; but no antennae. Saw one up by the house a bit later. Weird.

Can't believe it's already 2016 and almost tax time and I have not started anything. Ugh.
Hope you all have a blessed weekend and a blessed 2016.

Rest in Peace

Mr. Scalia. You were a great defender of the Constitution, and unborn babies.
My condolences to his family and friends.
I pray this is not an omen of things to come for America.



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