The Front Porch Swing

[PrairieChicks]

You mean like how the rocks have similar cracks. How the Ravens will dance on the wind playing skill games with their brothers and sisters. The humming birds defending their territory with the fierceness of an attacking sewing needle.... And how the bird of Paradise Mesquite shoots its seeds as far as fifteen feet when the bean pods open.

Or a Male California quail stands watch while his flock forages and all their mutterings.... They used to line up on the fence and wait for me to come out to feed the chickens.... Scolding me if I was late or lingered. Or how each chicken has a different voice and you can tell your favorites instantly.

Right now the Bullfrogs will be out of their holes in the dirt madly looking for a mate.... I have no idea where they lay their eggs but there are always coin purse sized bullfrogs out when it rains. The Black tailed Jack Rabbits, Cottontails, and Bush Bunnies will be looking for nibbly stuff too.
Jack Rabbits can be as big as 6 lbs.

Bush Rabbit is smaller than a cottontail,

cottontail

Or how there are woody herbs on my land that can treat respiratory illness, body aches and pains, help you loose weight, Keep you awake if you need it..... Help with coughs, belly aches.... Or are simply stunning in their shape form or function....

Or how seeds of the Storks Bill after the first dry out will screw themselves into the ground

these are excellent forage for horses, cows, rabbits, goats sheep.... So are the plants.

deb

I've never seen anything like this! Are they really able to work themselves down into the soil? Are the plants they are from large, or like tumbleweed?

 

[Beekissed]

I saw my oldest DD Jenny from Austin this week. Two whole hours!!!. She just turned 43 and has decided to abandon hair color and has 2 or 3 small patches of grey now. I was shocked. I didn't stop with the color until late fifties. Made me feel old (er).

I'm 47 and I stopped about the same time as your daughter...and I think it's why so many got mad over it! I'm the youngest of 9 siblings, so if I let my grey hang out that lets folks know how old the other gals are.

But...this past year one of the girls who got the most mad decided to let her grey take over. Maybe I've giving them courage to be themselves at long last. The oldest is 62 and won't give up her red hair color.....which is starting to look.....just a tad....obvious. I don't think she'll ever give it up....she seems to be going through her midlife crisis just a little later than most.

 

[RachaelS]

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I did, I am wearing my silk thermals, one of the best things I have ever purchased. I bought them back when I skied, so they are 15 years old

still doing the job. Have those then sweats on top. I am trying not to use the heater, just super hard to adjust from so hot one day and cold the next, the wind makes is 100 times worse!

 

[RachaelS]

No they are more like a grass. Yes they work themselves down and they do it quick! I would pick them and put them on my hand, then let the sun hit them and away they would go. Would get stuck in your cloths really quick.

 

[lovingmyhens]

  I'm so very glad!  There's no safer nor peaceful place to be right now in this world than close to the Lamb. 

I have thick, wavy hair too, so the properly layered cut is the only one that works for me...if they get it wrong it will poof out in odd places.  My hair doesn't  grow long, it grows bigger. 

Bee I'm 51 and have had long wavy hair forever because I just don't know how to work with a short cut. I've never colored my hair not once and I've told my girls that when the gray comes they are just going have to deal with it. I've been really blessed with late graying (I see a few strands every now and then and yank em out). But I won't spend the money nor the time on that which God has blessed me with!!

 

[Beekissed]

Bee I'm 51 and have had long wavy hair forever because I just don't know how to work with a short cut. I've never colored my hair not once and I've told my girls that when the gray comes they are just going have to deal with it. I've been really blessed with late graying (I see a few strands every now and then and yank em out). But I won't spend the money nor the time on that which God has blessed me with!!

Blessed indeed! I used to pull out my grey ones too but.....soon....it was futile.

Then I learned to love them and now I really like to see them glisten in the sun like silver.

 

[Beekissed]

No they are more like a grass. Yes they work themselves down and they do it quick! I would pick them and put them on my hand, then let the sun hit them and away they would go. Would get stuck in your cloths really quick.

How neat! Never knew or saw such a thing! God's designs are varied and most interesting....I never get tired of seeing all the specialty designs built into the world.

 

[Searsmom]

There is intense beauty everywhere..... you just have to look for it or be open to see it.... I love your vision..... I love Coyotes.... even huge packs of them. We dont have snowy owls but we do have Barn owls and owls that dig down and nest in rabbit holes. They are incredibly cute....

One day I will hear a loon and see the northern lights and swim in a stream that is so impossibly clear you cant tell how deep it is.

deb

Ah now there's one I've done. And I'll never be able to do it again. Back when I was in HS, somebody knew somebody who knew where there was a swimming hole up on one of the mountains around Chattanooga. I don't know how deep it was, but it was a clear teal greenish and so so cold! You could see pebbles on the bottom, no sense of how deep it was, there was no reference point down there. A rock was on one side of the stream and you could dive off, so it must have been pretty deep. I couldn't touch bottom - just a deep cool, clear mountain stream with a pool. Amazing! Knowing what I know now, I would never try to find the place without knowing somebody who knew somebody. Could be dangerous.

But definitely something I will never forget - and haven't - it's been about 25 years.

 

[Faerie]

I decided to go with Deb's way on the chicken livers, they turned out great! My husband loved them! I liked the taste, but the texture was odd, I ate one since I know they are good for me.

I believe in fairies.

My grandparents lived in Minnesota and I went to go visit them when I was a kid. That's where I first heard a loon. I just LOVE the sound of loons, I wish we had them here in Ohio.

We have had snow and freezing rain all day here. And supposed to get more overnight. YUCK!

 

[Beekissed]

I've done it....every summer for 5-6 yrs where I last lived. The mountain streams there are crystal clear and you can see the big fish swimming way down at the bottom where they would hide until all the swimmers would leave. My boys would take a piece of fishing line, stand out in the stream on the big rocks, up to their chest in crystal clear mountain water and dangle bait in front of the brood trout far below....so fun! There was a fast and deeper trench down the middle where we would shoot the chute by lying on our backs and letting the current take you downstream and you could see bald eagles flying above, huge rock cliffs and blue sky while the fish hid far below.

A swimming hole below a tourist attraction there called Seneca Rocks, where folks climb the huge rock formation....and sometimes fall to their death.