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NellieBelle
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 Posted - May 11 2016 : 09:54:25 AM
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Living in the country has it's own pleasures, and then there is the occasional added reward. Not exactly a chimney swift, but a wood duck is welcome too. ;) Not to clear as I had to take it through the screened window. When I opened the door to get a clearer view, he flew off. His mate next to him in flight. |
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine. Author Unknown |
Edited by - NellieBelle on May 11 2016 09:55:06 AM |
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maryjane
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Posted - May 11 2016 : 10:02:49 AM
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| Do you think it has to do that nature sign you have out that says, All are welcome here? |
MaryJane Butters, author of Milk Cow Kitchen ~ striving for the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain ~ |
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txbikergirl
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Posted - May 11 2016 : 12:42:48 PM
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GREAT janet! just love that. it isn't quite as special, but we have a large hare that lives down by t he barn. i just call him peter, but we see him a couple of times a week and it always makes me smile, hold my breath for a bit, and just enjoy him.
they are such great gifts from nature.
at least once a week i see a heron on our lake, i see it often enough that i believe he has now taken up residence. but i am always down there talking loud to the cows or chickens so think that i would see him more often if i kept my mouth shut. but can any of you? seriously, does everyone find themselves chatting away out loud to the cows and pets the moment they come into view? it just seems the most natural thing to do. |
_(199x300)_(66x100).jpg?v 93697001) Firefly Hollow Farm , our little farmstead. Farmgirl living in the green piney woods of East Texas on 23 acres with a few jerseys, too many chickens, a pair of pugs and my Texan hubby (aka "lover boy") |
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NellieBelle
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Posted - May 11 2016 : 3:49:25 PM
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How did you know MaryJane. ;).jpg?v 31326195) I have plenty of rabbits but no hare. A little Beatrix Potter at everyone's farms. |
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine. Author Unknown |
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maryjane
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NellieBelle
11217 Posts
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Posted - May 11 2016 : 5:10:28 PM
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| Love the roses you and Cindy are sharing. I have many in bud but nothing in bloom yet. I can smell the fragrant aroma from here. And for the link of bunnies and hare. |
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine. Author Unknown |
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maryjane
7074 Posts
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Posted - May 11 2016 : 5:43:16 PM
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When you said you didn't have hares, Carol and I wondered so we looked up the difference. I thought the piece was well-written and clever. So now I know the difference. Thanks! (Jasper thinks baby bunnies are tasty, even so, we have too many of them.)
The yellow rose is a very old rose, super thorny and fragrant. Nick's mother had a hedge of them so I started my own from hers many years ago. It's taller than me now. Soon there will be hundreds of them in bloom. The chickens love eating the petals that fall. I also have a white rose hedge that is the result of starts I dug up at Ruth's. She planted trees and flowers everywhere. We can only hope that someday someone will say that about us. In the meantime, I'm scouting the highways for road-kill bedding I can sell:) |
MaryJane Butters, author of Milk Cow Kitchen ~ striving for the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain ~ |
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NellieBelle
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Posted - May 11 2016 : 5:55:34 PM
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| There use to be hares years ago in the mid-west. Once in a great while you will see one, but they have mostly left with the prairie. Your yellow rose is gorgeous. I've always had a love for roses. I'm hoping I can always care for them because things wouldn't be the same without them. I have my grandmother's indigo bush that they had on the farm. I have taken seed and started others. pretty special. My cats love baby bunnies too. I have way too many and so don't feel so bad. Keeps things in check. |
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine. Author Unknown |
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txbikergirl
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Posted - May 11 2016 : 6:40:24 PM
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lovely rose and rose story maryjane. we have both hares and rabbits on the farm. we have two hares that have lived down by the barn (only one is around right now that we can see), thats the west side of the house... but on the north and east of the house we have little rabbits. go figure why they choose different sides. i enjoyed reading the details of the article you posted, and then was able to tell lover boy he was right about everything he had already told me about hares and rabbits ;>
janet your roses will be blooming before you know it. and we WILL be able to smell them in texas as you have so many of them !
does that sign keep your government from mowing where you are janet? or perhaps you don't have that service where you are? with all the rain in east texas the counties actually mow the sides of the road 2-4 times every year... and don't know that they would see or respect a sign. |
Firefly Hollow Farm , our little farmstead. Farmgirl living in the green piney woods of East Texas on 23 acres with a few jerseys, too many chickens, a pair of pugs and my Texan hubby (aka "lover boy") |
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NellieBelle
11217 Posts
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Posted - May 11 2016 : 7:12:12 PM
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| Yes, it helps that I live on a dead end road and county maintenance is minimal. I have "no spray" signs up also. |
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine. Author Unknown |
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NellieBelle
11217 Posts
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Posted - May 12 2016 : 04:57:24 AM
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Well, I evidently have a momma wood duck nesting on my place because the drake (papa) has taken up watch on top of the chimney swift tower. Two concerns: the chimney swifts won't use the tower if the drake is on sentry duty and if the momma hatches her nest of eggs, the cats will surely kill the ducklings. :(  |
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine. Author Unknown |
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txbikergirl
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Posted - May 12 2016 : 05:27:34 AM
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| well, it is a beautiful thing despite the havoc it will wreak with nature's ways at janets farmstead! |
Firefly Hollow Farm , our little farmstead. Farmgirl living in the green piney woods of East Texas on 23 acres with a few jerseys, too many chickens, a pair of pugs and my Texan hubby (aka "lover boy") |
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CloversMum
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Posted - May 12 2016 : 8:53:25 PM
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| How fun! |
Loving life and family on our Idaho farm, Meadowlark Heritage Farm; A few Jersey cows; a few alpacas; a few more goats, and even more ducks and chickens |
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