Cactus babies

Cactus

I re-potted my cactus & pulled some of the little babies off & put in
another planter

Aloe vera

My dad got these for my mom a few weeks before she died 4 years ago.
He gave them to me a few days after her funeral. It has grown at
least 3 inches in the last month since I repotted it!

Close call!

Rotten Tomatoes had a twitter poem contest and although I didn't win, I was one of the 20 finalists! The winner got a trip to the premiere of a new film called Paper Hearts.

It was a hard poem to write, you had to do it with your twitter account and you could only use 140 characters! Mine is listed as jefftexas88 on this list.

Follow me on twitter if you have an account over there.

Petey

Petey will be 5 this year & he is spoiled rotten!

Taylor

Taylor will be 13 this year!

Kole

Brylee & Aspyn

Mason

Trumpet Vine and Chaste Tree

Ballon Flowers

Rufus-Day 4

Rufus the bird

Bird news

Earlier today I found my dog Taylor holding a bird in his mouth. I got it away from him and it died before I could figure out how to get it back in the nest.

The nest is in an odd place up in my eaves where I can't quite get my hand through. A little later I went out in the yard and noticed the dogs were focused on that area again. I heard some chirping but couldn't see anything. I went around to the other side of the fence and found another one! He was feisty and hidden amidst the wisteria.

I picked him up, deciding to try to see if I could find some place to take it and give it a chance rather than leave it to become cat food.

I couldn't find any place so far and then found some websites that gave information on how to feed baby birds.

So far so good.

He has eaten a few times with the food I made up and has a full gullet and is asleep at the moment. Hopefully when Rick gets off work tomorrow he can make some calls and find someone that knows more of what they are doing to take him.

On a sad note, the barn swallow babies who were in the hanging geranium basket met a sad end. When I was going to work one day last week I noticed a bunch of geranium leaves on the porch and looked in the basket and they were all gone. Rick noticed later a cat hanging around looking for more.

I guess the cat had made its way up the porch railing and got them. Hopefully the cat cannot get to the babies that are higher up in their nests. I won't be hanging any baskets on that hook anymore just in case.

Mums and roses

From the past

Here are some pictures from the past of me, my parents, my brother and sister, my grandfather and my great grandfather.

Paris, France 1994

I borrowed an old photo album and scanned some pictures out of them. I found these that I took in Paris in 1994, pictures of me and my family. The last picture I took in black and white looks so eerie when you click on it and make it full sized!

Elderberry, trumpet vine and Washington Hawthorne

Eerie clouds after the storm

Newly hatched

The barn swallows that built their nest in my hanging geranium basket have some chicks!

The dove chicks from yesterdays post are gone, I took a picture just in time!