Down Mulberry Lane

On My Heart

Scattergories

Bottom of the foot, rofl. 

Arts and Crafts Show

   Once a year my daughter and I travel to the Mississippi River Road about an hour away to go to the largest arts and crafts show in the area. We have been doing this annually for almost 20 years. My mom would make the trip with us but the last four years have been without her since she has the Alzehimers and is now in the nursing home. I do miss her doing things with us. Sigh

   I've posted a  picture of the plantation home here, I do hope it is showing up. It's a beautiful antibellum home with a history of ghost and hauntings. It's been featured in several movies and TV shows.  It is just one of many large wonderful homes on the River Road to tour.

  Today the weather was just perfect for the festival. I have to say I love going mainly because  I get to spend  quality one on one time with my daughter. The prices of things are really out of my reach to say the least. It's all beautifully handmade items that I would love to have in my home and around my yard, but still out of my price range. I do enjoy the food though, LOL. Some of the best Louisiana cooking around.

   If the picture isn't showing up you can go HERE for more information on it and several other area plantation homes. They are  a real treat.

So that was my Saturday. How is yours going? Thanks for visiting.

Babar the Birthday Present

We got a phone call last week from some friends who had a lamb that had a mother who wouldn't take him.  He was the smallest lamb I have ever seen.  Smaller than our cat.  I wasn't going to take him, knowing the work involved and figuring he never got any colustrum to start.  Well our youngest has a birthday on Monday, and she said that this would be her present.  So for ten days, we've doctored this guy through scours and constipation, sniffles and a bum leg.  So here's a pic, not of him, but he does look like this:

He's a Barbados Blackbelly Sheep.

And here's what he'll look like when he grows up:

Nice looking pet? He's adorable now, though.

Off to enjoy the sunshine.

I need to make time for my blog!

I need to make more time in my day for my blog. I miss all of my blog friends!!! How are all of you doing? I have been spending time on facebook and I am deleting my account.It has take me from my blog. It is addicting and not really worth the time you spend on it.  I do miss all of you guys here. If I am going to spend time on the puter it will be with my blog and not f.b. I am not saying fb is bad for others; I just have to choose my puter time wisely and I have let my blog fall by the wayside. My blog is more important to me than fb. I just dont have the time for both.

Our family has been very busy. We finaly got all the snow melted here. We spent 2 days outside cleaning up the farm. Its amaizing how messy it has gotten with 31/2 months of snow on the ground. Wednesday was in the upper 50 and Thursday was in the 60's. Yesterday it snowed!! WE have snow on the ground again. It will be gone by tomorrow. Yeah.

I went and bought my seed potatoed yesterday. I have them stored in the basement. The store got them in last saturday and they are alomst sold out. THey said there is going to be a shortage on potatoes, greenbeans, snap peas, cuke, and tomatoe seeds this year. Seed are going to be hard to get. I ordered onions from the Omaha Plant company out of Texas. They will be here next week. I am going to get ordered everyting else I need tomorrow.

Tonight I am taking Victoria, Kaitlynn and one of her girly friend to the city for The Rocking Road Tour. It has Mery Me, The David Crowder Band, Francesca Batestelli, and a couple other Christian bands. I think it will be alot of fun. It is our "girly night out". We are eating at a buffet( not my choice) before the show. I do not do concerts normaly but the tickets are $10, and they are good Christian groups. I think concerts are WAY to over-priced. My oldest has paid over a $100 for a concert.

Last week we went to Minneaplois for Bryans doctor appointment. We met with the amputation doc. Bryan is getting his right leg( below the knee) amputated. I am not sure when this is going to be done yet. We have to get legal guardianship first. We took all the kids with us,except for Dew, he was at school. We went up to Duluth for the night. We stayed at a hotel with a waterpark, on Lake Superior. We got a  great rate for the room, it had 2 bedrooms and 2 baths, with a deck overlooking the lake. It was so foggy and rainy you couldnt see much of it. The next day we went over into Wisconsin. We followed a little hwgy across the top of the state along Lake Superior. We ended up at Ashland WI. We stayed the night there. We came home the next day. It was just beautiful up there. We drove through a National forest. Just gorgeous. We didnt want to leave. It was a nice little vacation for us. We have to go in the off season or we couldnt afford it. The room the last night was $80, that was with a small water park. Shawn overheard when we were checking out that the type of room we had would be $209 in the summer. WOW big difference. THe kids had fun. We had a great time. Took loads of pictures. I post some tomorrow when I have more time.

Time to get ready to go to the concert. We are hanging in the city for awhile first. Maybe some thrift stores.

Miss ya guys.

Have a great Saturday.

Cami

Chickens Make Me Gag!

I have to admit, I have a much stronger stomach than I did when I was younger.  I used to gag at everything and when I was pregnant with my children, it was 100 times worse!  Raising kids and farm animals can toughen your gag reflexes in no time, but I must say, chickens still make me gag.  There is nothing a chicken won't eat, including each other.  Yes, they are cannibals!  Trust me when I tell you that you really DON'T want to follow that hen and try to find out what she has hanging from her mouth and wonder why all of the other chickens are chasing after her!  You just don't want to know!

Chicken Reality!