Morning Dearies,

It's a short blog, well the weather dumped several more inches of snow on us, but it was short lived and melted off in a day or two. It was a lovely snow wonderful for snowballs.

Then as sweetly as can be the sun came out and we had high 60's low 70's. and Bill's Christmas rose finally got to bloom out.

It was worth the wait, I think.

Take care dearies. Much love to you

blessings Makay

Just when you think Spring has sprung... Mother Nature fools you once more.

We have had some of the nicest days lately, with our temps in the 70's. Which prompts flower bed attention. I'm really not allowed to rake, but it is so hard not to at least attempt to move a few leaves. Bill has me using a small rake with 9 tines, his thought, I would be less likely to over do and hurt my back. It's true you can't move much with 9 tines but I still manage to get some done, I can rake a bit sitting down and not bend over. I noticed the may apples were peeping up through the ground, and all the daffodils have buds. And one new thing is going to bloom soon, Bill's Christmas Rose(helborus).

One of the ladies in the Master Gardeners Club gave it to him two or three years ago. This is it's first bloom and it seems to be real slow about opening up. So we have been checking it every day.

Mother Natures Joke.

And now the Christmas Rose is under 5 1/2 inches of snow. I hope the blooms survive, I'll show them to you when and if we thaw out again.

Blessings Dearies

Makay

Hello Dearies,

It's blog time again. This time it's a trip to Little Rock. We rode down to attend the Flower Show at the State Convention Center. Well we paid our $39 bucks for the bus ride. We had other plans too. So we loaded at 7am with ice on most things except the road and headed South. We arrived around 10 ish and with strict orders to be back at the loading ramp by 4pm or we would walk HOME!

We had plans to visit the Clinton Library and then come back to the flower show. We didn't belong to the Glad Garden Flower Club that chartered the bus, but I was real good friends with the organizer of the trip and she wanted to fill the bus so all could go and she would have sold tickets to monkeys to achieve this. So we caught the next trolly and rode it to the library for a quarter. What a bargin, the man driving was of spanish decent and was a wonderful tour guide. But he knew everything about every building on our route.We crossed the Arkansas River enroute and saw the Arkansas Queen, a very lovely paddle wheel river boat, and a neat WW2 submarine. It was fun ride and the clang clang clang of the trolly almost made me want to get up and do a Judy Garland impression. We soon reached our stop and the conductor said be back here by 5:15 or you will walk back, That seems to be the thought for the day. We said we would be back way before the last trolly time. So we walked the rest of the way to the library about a block. It was chilly but not freezing.

One of the rooms of the library had a complete miniture white house in it. It had every room and gardens with flowers and dining room every thing, this would have made some little girls day to have this as a doll house. WOW!

This was a great attraction for the kids but the grown ups liked it too.!!

The library has three floors and well we didn't have time to check it all out , we sorta skimmed over all we could. It's a very modern building and you can see outisde almost everywhere. We saw the Oval Office and a very nice guard took our picture. My sister said all that's missing is Bill and the guard said my name is Bill. We all laughed (his name tag said his name was Ralph). Go figure

There were many things to photograph but you could not use a flash and it was a ver cloudy day so I couldn't get as many as I would have liked.

Well we caught our trolly back to the Convention Center and went to the flower show actually the part we went to was the lawn and garden show. The flower stuff was up stairs and they had lectures and demos and lots of flower arangements. They have a little booth for Arkansas books and I got Bill a copy of Arkansas Wild Flowers. Last time we went I got him The Buffalo River Handbook. Jo and I picked up some shea butter and some soap too. No plants tho. but we did see the biggest crystal I ever saw they had it displayed as a fountain with the water trickling down over the crystal into the small pond below. You can always get great ideas from these shows. This was a rock garden display that didn't win a thing and I thought it took alot of thought to place each rock and the different mosses and ferns about into an attractive art piece. The space is about four by three.

We walked around a bit and before long it was time to load the bus, and believe me we weren't walking home. We were on time. We left promptly at 4:01pm for home. We usually get to stop at Cracker Barrel but this time the ladies voted to go to Ryans, damn no gift shop this time.

Well we had a great time and by the time the bus pulled into the depot we were ready to crash.(play on words there) Thanks for taking my tour. We'll go again next year.

In Love and Light

as Always Makay

If you've been reading my blogs you know we are doing some clearing and brush burning. We were cooking brats on the grill and it was dark and cold so Bill lit the brush pile in the back yard.

We needed some heat while the brats sizzled on the grill.

And you also know that where ever I go theres a camera in my hand. So I took a couple of photos of the fire. No big deal. Here's the first one.

You can see theres not much time from one photo to the next as you can see the same sticks in each photo, but the color of the flames changed. Sorta a blueish cast. Oh there's no magic or mystery, on the first photo I did not use a flash and on the second photo I did. What a difference in photos tho.

Been working on my fairy house again (laying rock) Just keeping you all caught up on the action or lack of here abouts.

The moon this night was beautiful. I hope that we get to see Wensdays Eclipse

Blessings Friends

Makay

Stephen clearing a spot for the riverboat. (I'm a lumber jack and I'm OK)

I'm supervising

Meanwhile back at the ranch, someone has lit the fire for lunch......

we will cook hot dogs on the fire, actually you just put a small wire rack on the top and lay your hot dogs on it with an occasional turn they are yummy.

Warm afternoon sun was a welcome visitor to our deck as we relaxed and ate our lunch. After lunch it was back to work for the crew, but I found some time to sit and soak up the sunshine.

Later that evening........ a soak in the hot tub.

And tomorrow we get to do it all over again,,,,,,,,,if we are lucky.

Blessings All

Makay