Scrappy Saturday-Homestead pics

These are some older pages created with pics taken from around the homestead.

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Enjoying the Homestead

A look  in the opposite direction.  Our little table blends right in with its surroundings. The cornfield behind us (on the right) is a great place to see deer at dusk.

A view from the table looking out across the garden and the field across the road
 where we often see deer coming out to feed in the evenings.

We have a field that we refer to as our garden.  Adjacent to the garden, is the chicken/turkey yard.  In between is a strip of grass and an old wooden table.  

During the summer months we spend a lot of our evenings in the garden and just sitting at the table...talking, enjoying a cool drink and being entertained by the chickens.  We also enjoy watching the wildlife.  Here's a 

look at a typical evening.  

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The Oriole family that has a nest over the chicken yard keeps busy feeding the little ones.

Hubs sampling some berries

Runaway Chicken- She is an escape artist!

 Josie entertains herself by chasing butterflies...

 or chewing a stick!

What a cutie!

It's difficult to see, but there are several deer grazing in the corn field at dusk.

Yard Art

I know you've all seen it.  You may like it.  You may not.  I'll leave the judging up to you. 

Recently, I was reading this article in my MaryJane's Farm Magazine. When I stumbled across this article by Rebekah Teal.  It reminded me of my neighbor's yard.   

My neighbor's yard fascinates me.  There is so much to look at you're not sure what to look at first! 

Every year, they add more!

They've also been known to put up Easter decorations before the Christmas decorations have been taken down.  It's kind of like the Easter Bunny meets Santa Claus.

Okay, I won't keep you in suspense any longer.  Here are some pictures I got of the place, (very nonchalantly) while taking a walk the other day. 

(Don't  forget to click on the photo to enlarge.  You don't want to miss a thing)

Yard art alley

John Deere #1 complete with window boxes

John Deere yellow doors

More stuff.  And notice the fenced in fish pond in the background.

Thrones for your garage anyone?!

John Deere #2 and more window boxes

This is definitely not my style.  But hey, 

to each his own-right?

In her article, Rebekah states that she saw a wine bottle tree that she wanted to duplicate for her yard.  Her husband finally agreed but said it had to be in their

Back Yard!

What kind of yard art do you enjoy!

I'll leave you with some pics of my

Yard Art

Yep, that's it. That's all I got.

Simple and Deliberate.

Until next time, create some yard art of your own! (I'd love to see your pics)

Scrappy Saturday-Gardening

With gardening season in full swing, I thought these scrappy pages from a few years ago were fitting!

(As always, click on the photos to enlarge!)

THE Storm

It has certainly been a week to remember...OR FORGET! 

Last Thursday, a wicked storm, complete with high winds and hail, rolled through our neighborhood, knocking down trees, power lines and knocking out our electricity!  

This is our yard about a week before the storm

THE STORM

Yes, instead of going to the basement, we were taking pictures.  

This storm was very scary, it was non like we had ever seen before.  It seemed to last forever. But praise God, we were not harmed, we just had some downed trees. A real blessing considering all the tornadoes that have hit the Midwest this spring.

The Aftermath

Behind the storm was a huge pile of leaves, limbs, trees and debris.  

The Chicken house door was blocked by a fallen tree.
  That's Hubs out there cleaning up the mess.

Leaves EVERYWHERE

Uprooted tree

We had no electricity from Thursday evening to Saturday afternoon.  My (pregnant) daughter lost her power also.  

We had hooked our fridge and freezer up to a generator so she brought her "valuables" to our house to keep them cold.  But on the way over, her chocolate ice-cream had an accident in the cooler.  

So she had to clean up the mess!

Jack helped too! Mmmmm!