Life

Our backyard here is huge. At the moment it lacks character as the previous owners prefered "bland". It is basically just grass and crawdad hills. I am busy working on it hwever. After the last 2 deep freezes, everything just looks brown and gloomy. We do have a very large Red tailed hawk that has adopted us. He overheard me talking about putting in a bird feeder. That will attract his dinner. We call him Henry. He is very interested in us. Come to think of it, maybe he likes our tasty homegrown crawdads. We are going to put in a bird feeder.

We have a beautiful Red Arabian horse. At least we hope he's ours, He was living on a cattle ranch with another colt. The other colt died and we were given Red as his owners couldn't feed him. He had  a rare parasite due to drought conditions and living with cows. He was in need of urgent care so we took him in. He is looking so good after 2 weeks of good grain and hay. I love to watch him run. We are going to begin training him very soon and the children should be able to ride him by the end of summer.
One plus is that I have my own fertilizer factory. Sorry Home Depot. I won't be buying that from you anymore.
I planted 2 rose bushes today. It seems that the new fantastic hybrid for Texas is the Knock Out Rose. I took my trusty red shovel and dug up 4 banana trees to make room. This property evidently had bald cypress trees a one time and when  I dig down, I hit the remnants of the trees underground., Digging isn't easy. Hmmmm....maybe our house is on an ancient Cypress Bog since we are so close to Spring Creek. I will start looking for arrow heads too. I used to do that as a kid and found quite a few digging around the river bottoms of the Feather River in Northern California,
Awwww..... I love life!