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> My youngest daughter is quite a gardener. What started long ago, as a toddler hunting for ready-radishes like Easter eggs in Grandad’s garden and helping Grampy with his tomatoes, has become what appears to be a life-long passion. She has a large garden at our house and we enjoy the fruits of her labor. [...]

> I am so glad that my little neice, Lainey, likes to dance around in the rain and wear boots with dresses. And that I got a picture of it. She’s even cuter than her reflection!

> Anybody know what kind of cows these are? For a couple of years, they’ve been in a pasture I drive by just outside Fredericksburg. Upon describing them to you-know-who, I was given a look of total skepticism. So, I stopped and took a picture and someone, who shall remain nameless, said he was sorry [...]

> I travel frequently to the Hill Country region of Texas and the carpets of wildflowers along the highway never cease to take my breath away. Lady Bird Johnson and I would have been friends, I just know it.

>I am trying really, really hard to post pictures of our trip to the ft worth botanic gardens, but I can’t find them. I used my new camera and I think the images downloaded into outer space. Actually, I can see them on the computer, but when I try to find them through this posting [...]

>I believe it’s time to introduce the animals. We’ll start with Bonnie aka My Birthday Present. She is a Yorkie, a big Yorkie. We’re glad, though, because she needs to be sturdy. After all, she’s not living the fu-fu life – she’s a country dog and in charge of everything and everybody. One of her [...]

>Okay, I knew it already. But, now, I’m 100%, absolutely, positively, no-doubt-about-it sure…I married the right person. The other day, he walked in, opened up his work-gloved hand and said, “Here’s a dead thing for your dead area.” Most of the things in the picture were “gifts” he brought me because he knows me. I [...]

> I don’t think anyone has ever sat in this chair but me. So, I guess that makes it mine. It is in a corner of my bedroom and I sit here in the morning with the window open, the curtain pulled back and praise the Lord with the birds, the wind, whatever is raising [...]