Star Quilts

I have been teaching quilting at our local Community Center here in Summersville. Here is an example of one of our beginner projects in the works. We don't have a design wall so we use a pool table instead to lay out the quilt blocks.

Ozark April Clouds

Turtle Day

Here on our property we have turtles. This past morning they were on the move and very active. One red box turtle and one brown tortoise were running away from our ponds. We took photos of their under sides to ID them later if we come across them again.

Baby Filly

Our neighbor is raising some foals born from his mares this spring. The other morning we came by to see the latest. I have never seen a foal in real life before. It was so magical seeing a real live baby filly and its protective mother in the field.

Rose's Day out

Rose is our female Rex bunny. Since we do not have a fenced in yard we take her on leash walks in our yard. She loves eating the tall green Fescue grasses that grow on our rolling hills.

Horse Shopping

This past weekend A. and I drove around the town looking for horses for sale. We want to buy locally, if we can. Here in the Ozarks it is trail riding season and many of the good horses have sold. Most horse owners have foals and yearlings left. We have seen Paints, Fox Trotters, Quarter horses and Arabians in our area. It is fun to go horse shopping though. People are so friendly and full of information. And they are happy to show off their horses.

Poppy Tuesday

Poppy is outside helping my husband to pull weeds from our pond pea gravel plateau.

Spring Purples

The Family

Here is our mixed rooster and his herd of two hens. He is crowing to a neighbors rooster a mile away; while the hens scratch up some bugs.

The Bachelors

The bachelors are two red roosters we bought to protect our incoming pullets this April. All pullets means all hens. We need roosters to make baby chicks. So until the chicks come of age these two roosters keep together on the farm, eating bugs.

Snake Season

This evening we put our free range chickens back in their coop for the night. We had an extra visitor, a garter snake waiting for us. It was on the chickens perch still as stone. Until we netted it and took it outside. It became a fast moving black ribbon of go. It was put in the meadow where I am sure it will be happier than spending the night with two angry roosters. We also had a wounded ring neck snake with an orange belly show up thanks to my cat, Poppy. He was very proud to have caught a snake. Who knew a cat would love to hunt snakes? With all this warm weather it is snake season out here in the Ozarks.

Flowery

Peaches, apples, pears and Red Buds in bloom, Oh My!

Pretty Horses

We are looking to buy two horses for our farm and to ride. The fun part is going to see what is for sale in our area. There are so many various breeds of horses in the Ozarks. I thought I'd share some of the neat photos of what we have seen thus far.