First Bike

All she wanted for her fourth birthday was a big girl bike, with two baskets! One to carry pink poodle in and one to put pretty rocks into.

All that  tricycle riding last year paid off with this bike…she only had trouble going UP hill everything else—turning corners, going down hill, stopping were a breeze!

Linda

When You Have Cows

It doesn’t matter how much feed you have or how much land the cows have to walk on there is always one ——

Who has to get out, even if it means breaking the fence down.

Linda

Any Day Now

It is nice to have cows on our place again.  The rancher who brings his first year heifer’s up here to calve-out brought them in February 1st.

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We check them often and the rancher checks them twice a day.  Since this is their first year for calving we all stay very watchful.  (Although, problems can occur at any age with any cow or calf)

Happy Sunday everyone!

Linda

Spring is Coming to Our Part of the World–Wordless Wednesday

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Linda

With Great Saddness

Marjorie Jean Brown of Delta, Colorado passed away in Greeley, Colorado on February 14, 2012.  She was born in Greeley, Colorado where she was adopted as an infant by Elmer and Lucy Griffith of Delta, Colorado.  She grew up in Delta where she attended public schools, graduating from Delta High School in 1942.  She Married Jack C. Brown in Delta on February 14, 1943.  Mr. Brown passed away on August 22, 2002

She is survived by a son, Terry and his wife, of Delta, Colorado; a son, Roger Brown of Gilbert, Arizona; and a daughter Carolyn Maxwell and her husband, Wayne, of Greeley, Colorado; 9 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jack; a son, Billy Joe who died in infancy; her brother, James Griffith and his wife Sylvia; and a daughter-in-law, Mary Brown of Gilbert, AZ.

A celebration of life and memorial service will be held in Delta, Colorado at a later date.

Linda

Kindle

For my birthday I was given a Kindle…I didn’t think I would like one…I love to hold books in my hand, I like to turn the pages, and if it’s a really good book I like to pass it around for others to read.

BUT!!!!!

I am enjoying my Kindle very much!  I have only downloaded three books, and am in the process of reading the first book…Kindle reading is really nice, you can see the pages really well, and you can turn the pages slick as a whistle, best of all I just slip it in my purse so when I have ‘waiting time’.  You know—that time while Terry goes into the parts house, or searches through a salvage yard, or is at a farm auction…I can slip far far away in another land provided by my Kindle. (as I am doing in the photo…reading my Kindle while waiting.)

So I have the best of both worlds…books when I want them and Kindle when we are someplace where I am bored.

Pretty Cool this new world of Technology.

Linda

Sunday Stills—From the Heart

The Sunday Stills assignment this week is in honor of Valentine’s Day….  something from the heart.

When I was a child my Momma always decorated for Valentine’s Day.  And it seemed she was always the room mother in charge of this sweet and romantic holiday.  One year she created a castle out of cardboard boxes and poster board, then she decorated it with crepe paper and lace doilies and beautiful pink and read hearts.

This lovely castle sat on it it’s very own table at our tiny country school house (only 8 to 10 children where in my class from First Grade through the Sixth).  Into the slot at the top of the castle every child placed their Valentines…some were store bought (if your parents had money) but most were hand-made.

This lovely little castle has sat in my mind ever since.  Once in awhile I try to recreate it, but I always come up short.  I guess, for it to be correct, it needs her loving touch.

My valentine decorations aren’t as fancy as hers, but they make me feel ‘the spirit’.

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Happy Sunday Stills Everyone!

Linda

Find the Coyote Hidden Pictures—Answers

Here are the answers to finding the coyote

Photo 1

This one was easier to spot than the second one

Photo 2

He/she is still looking at you, but had moved into the brush a little more.

Thanks for playing everyone!  I had fun and I hope you did too.

Linda

Hidden Pictures–Find the Coyote

” This guy was maybe 25 ft away and if there had been just a bit of greenery it would be invisible. A coyote might be fooled once with something and if it didn’t cost it it’s life that mistake would never be repeated”.—From TB from http://oneflyspictureplace.blogspot.com/ 

TB sent me over these two photo he took of a coyote. See if you can find the coyote.  I looked and looked and looked, when they want to hide, they can very well.

You can see the head in the first photograph pretty well.

Have fun!

Linda