On The Line

I like to hang clothes on the line instead of using the dryer.  Partly because I'm tightwad and partly because I like some "old ways." When drying clothes on the line a fairly stiff wind helps in the drying process and removes wrinkles. Several years ago we had a summer that was calm. It wasn't good clothes drying weather.  We live on a hill and the first thing I noticed after we moved here was the wind.  I've always said that we don't think it's windy around here until it's blowing 25 miles an hour. 

After a few years of fairly calm summers and enjoying them, we get 2022.  All the wind that didn't blow in those few summers have come to us this April.  We've had so many windy days where it is uncomfortable to be out because it's cold.  We've had days where it's a struggle to walk against the wind and we have to hold on to our car doors so they aren't sprung.  And then there is the shift in temperatures.  One day, Tuesday, it was 88 degrees and windy, of course, and by nightfall freezing temperatures were back.  It's been fluctuating like that all winter, really, not the 80 degrees, but 30s, then 60s, then 20s, then 40s, then 60s again, and 50s and on and on.  

Line-drying clothes doesn't work at 35 mph unless I watch them because they will blow off into the neighbors if left too long. 

This year, we've had the 20-25 mph winds, plus wind gusts of 40 to 60 mph on different days. 

It makes staying inside feel pretty good.

On the days with warmer weather I get anxious to be outside cleaning the garden trash off my flower gardens, However, picking up dry leaves and flower stems and trying to put them in my garden cart is counter productive since they all fly away into another part of the flower garden to be picked up again.

No, thanks.

April around here also brings family, and baby chicks.

Lynette and Anthony often come in April and every year Jim thinks we need more chicks.

Whether I think we do or not is beside the point, and they are cute.

Family Supper

The wind died down enough for us to enjoy the outside for a bit.

February 2020

I have too many photos selected with this month's post.  

But, there it is...

A quiet evening at the Miller's 

The third graders in our town hatch chicks for a science project so we got six chicks from a friend.

Paislee thought they were "so cu-uute."

Auntie and Niece

We had Zane for a weekend in February and Barry and Christian together the next Saturday after Barry's basketball game.

Zane is into cooking and while making a sundae bar isn't really cooking, it sure is fun to eat.

Barry and Christian wanted s'mores from the fireplace, so they had them, and since Barry wanted to "cook" something, too, he asked for yellow cake with chocolate frosting and that's what we made.

From Barry

A Narwhal I think.

Two days worth of eggs.  It shows the variety we get. 

Just cool.

There were some very nice days in February this year.  

Eggs-zactly!

Photography in the hands of anyone under 10 is suspect at best.  I've been going through my photos this morning and deleting all the fuzzy ones, the twenty of stuffed animals, the ones of the floor, the ones of kid's nostrils and especially the ones of me.  I do not look well in the four or five layers of clothing I wear at Lorene's or taken unawares.

This one, which was taken by Zane with my approval is the best one showing the stair steps of size going on with this bunch.  There was a better one of me, but Christian's head wasn't there. 

Our chickens are laying again because we've had a few nice days.  Our Americana hen is doing her job and producing green eggs.  

And what we do with eggs; green or brown or white, is make egg sandwiches with cheese. 

Yum!

I love the way kid's minds work.  This is a portrait of Gramma.  

I'm wearing a long two-color dress and have long hair. 

October 6, 2015

Today is the third anniversary of the end of treatment. 

I'm celebrating with a photo of another year's hair growth.  

2015                                                                                                                                                   2014

I have weird hair; I don't think any grew on the right side. 

                      

October is such a beautiful month. I have been looking forward to the cooler days and 

"October's bright blue weather"

However, we've had days and days of clouds and damp and sprinkles.  It hasn't rained much, just remained dismal.

Perhaps we'll get more October days when November gets here since November has seemed to sneak in this first week of October. 

I've been going out in the early mornings to feed the cats.  I can use the little bit of exercise I get and fresh air is good for everybody.  Even though the days lately have been gloomy, the mornings and evenings when the air is still and I expect the chilly weather and dress for it, have been lovely.  

Our house is so pretty all dressed up for the night.

Besides, the hair being weird around here, so are our chickens.  One always lays ombre eggs, one lays eggs whose shells are so thin they nearly explode when cracked, and one obviously chose this day to be a pullet.  

However, when opened there was no yolk.  

Defective egg. 

Weird.