Week-End Project

This is what we considered our yard....Not too attractive and alot of it ended up in the track of the sliding glass patio door when the wind was blowing. So, we decided to up-date to a more fashionable green color! It's amazing what a couple pallets of sod and volunteer labor can accomplish!


Tony and my Dad started the process late on Sunday evening. The plan was to do the entire job on Monday, but we had picked up the sod on Saturday, and some of it was beginning to dry out.


Justin joined the volunteer labor group on Monday.


Guess who the boss/supervisor for the job was? No, not me.....


Here is a look at the end result!


The guys finished in hurricane force winds! Thanks Tony, Justin and Dad! I don't know of anyone who will enjoy it more than I will!


Unless it's these two!!

Warm Spring Sunshine!

Just wanted to share a few pictures of Tressie enjoying time outside in the warm spring sunshine. She did have a hat on most of the time we were outside. Her mama also had smothered her with sunscreen! Will be a challenge keeping both the hat and the sunscreen on this child!


One of my childhood memories was picking flowers for our Grandma out in her back yard. Now that I am older, I realize that most of the flowers that we picked were not intended to be picked! But we never got in trouble for it by Grandma. Mom maybe, but not Grandma!


Nothing like discovering God's beautiful creation through the eyes of a child!


By the way, she never picked the flower. Just enjoyed touching it and looking at it!

Beautiful Mother's Day!

It really was a beautiful Mother's Day! A day spent with my family on a warm, sunny Colorado day! Emily, Justin and Tressie arrived early at a Colorado Springs restaurant to secure a table big enough for our group. After a great lunch, we took a few minutes to make some memories.

Here are the girls. My sister, Sheryl, and her two girls, Kendra and Kelsey. My Mom, Emily, Tressie and me. Notice the beautiful blue sky and Pikes Peak in the background!


Em, Tressie and me...


Sheryl and I have been blessed with a caring and loving Mom!


These are the beautiful flowers that Emily, Justin and Tressie gave me for Mother's Day! I absolutely LOVE flowers!!!


This morning when Tony came in from doing chores, he brought me these lilacs off of our lilac bush. Lilacs are my FAVORITE flower!


And where did this mysterious, lone carnation come from? The carhop at Sonic when he brought out my large cherry limeade!


Hope that you all had a BEAUTIFUL Mother's Day!

Tony's New Ride

I'm thinking that other than getting a new ranch pickup, getting a new horse is almost or just as exciting and important! Of course, you rarely see much excitement on this cowboys face! Anyway, he decided it was time to start looking for another horse. Claims that his horse, Moe, is getting some age on him and is LAZY! I kinda think that he is thinking down the road a few years when Tressie is needing a horse. Moe will probably do her just fine!


Just so happened that the neighbor had a horse that he was needing to sell. Tony had him bring the horse over for a week to "try him out". Another neighbor had a horse out of the same lineage and really liked his "cow sense". That's important for someone that puts lots of hours in on horseback this time of year riding thru the cattle, doctoring, tagging calves, and whatever else might need doin. Well, we are now, or should I say Tony, is the proud owner of this 4 year old blue roan. His registered name is Blue Cutter McKeag. I think he's being called Cutter. They seem to be getting along just fine!


Won't be long until he has a little shadow taggin along on his old lazy horse, Moe!

Easter Thru The Generations

I wanted to post these pictures last week, but obviously time just got away, and it didn't get done! Hope everyone had a blessed and happy Easter! We had a good day with family and friends!

Tressie looked like she was ready for the Easter parade, all dressed up in her new dress and shoes. It's a good thing that her Mama didn't pay much for this hat because she wore it for about 15 seconds! She was a busy little girl keeping up with everything that went on. She wasn't really into hunting eggs, maybe next year.


This is Tressie's Mama, many years ago. I'm really not even sure how old she is in this picture. Don't remember if she liked her hat or not! Her Grandma Chisman always made her Easter dress.


This is a picture of me when I was probably about 3 years old. Mom ALWAYS made an Easter dress for Sheryl and I. They were always matching, sometimes different colors.


It's fun to look back thru the generations and see what has changed and what has basically stayed the same. The styles have changed, the faces have changed, many things have changed. One thing that will never change is the reason that we celebrate Easter. Our Risen Lord and Saviour!

Shopping Anyone?

Yesterday morning after Tressie had eaten her breakfast, she came walking into the office with her purse and jacket! I think that she was bored with Grandma and wanted to go somewhere! I would of thought that she was still tired from our shopping trip into Colorado Springs on Saturday. I'm still tired from it!


Her big goose egg on her head is MUCH better. Check out her blog at tressiegolding.blogspot.com for pictures of the biggest, baddest, goose egg I'd ever seen!

Tressie & Grandma's Walk

Yesterday Tressie and I decided to take a walk. It was a fairly nice spring day. Just a breeze blowing, not hurricane force winds! OK, so we haven't had hurricane force winds, but we have had our share of hard and persistent winds this spring! A very nice day can be ruined with wind, in my opinion. I am not fond of wind! It makes me grumpy! Did you pick up on that?

Back to our walk....We always see goats around our house.


This heifer was very interested in what we were doing in her territory. Actually we weren't in her territory, because we were outside the corral! Tressie was also very interested in her!


We helped Grandpa run some drip hose for the new bushes that were planted yesterday. There is a row of plum, a row of cherry, and a row of sumac. We also planted 50 lilac bushes. These will serve as a snow fence on the north and east sides of our new house. Notice the ominous looking cloud in this picture? All we got was a couple of rumbles of thunder. That was enough to cause Tressie's dog, Lucy, to hole up for an hour. She HATES thunder!


We also found a sign of Spring! A cherry bush in an already established live wind break was blooming!


Here are some of those lilac bushes that we planted. Can't wait until they are big and blooming!


Tressie loved the walk! The only bad thing is, she cried when we had to come in and start making supper!