I also have some new "guests" in my yard. Several red hens and a rooster. Today they rewarded us with 10 eggs. I feed them table scraps and Susan feeds them their regular food.

I have this one birdfeeder in the back yard and two on my front porch. Rhodie likes bird food too.

One morning this week I had neighbors drop in for breakfast. Susan brought some of the goats to help clear the yard and get some special greens.

Spring is definately here.There are signs of it everywhere. The yard is covered with little wild blooms, clover, wild daffodils. The woods also have blooms. I have a redbud tree and a dogwood tree blooming now.Ben has tilled the same amount of garden space for us as last year, and Susan has planted potatoes, beets, carrots, and leaks so far.

These two pictures are backward here. The first is of my rose bushes after a "close encounter" with some deer. The second is after they have started to sprout some new growth. Like I have sai before I am not a nature photographer but I try.

Don't know if this white flower has a name other than "weed"but I thought it was nice.Then a couple of days later this purple one bloomed.

Signs of spring are everyhere here. This was a surprise earlier this week. A Hyacinth survived the winter and is blooming.I spotted the pink one first

I collect things other than bears. These are just a sample of the 45 or so tea pots that I have. And some of the one hundred plus spoons I have from all the states and several foreign countries. I have them on a coffee table with a wicker base topped with glass.The glass keeps them from tarnishing.

Some of you have children that do cute things /I have my kittens. This first picture is them telling Baby that they'd help her get back in. The other one is them resting(on the piano )with some Valentine bears.

This is my driveway after the rain I have wild daffodils(miniature) Susan has the real thing.



This is Ethel You can see where they shaved her belly for her spay surgery. This is Lucy helping herself to the water in Baby's bowl( she does have her own!)

thi the one in the red shirt is Susan.

this is Debbie and you can just see her husband Kerry's head there. This is Stephanie Susan's other daughter. Notice we have two red heads in our family.

This is Catey and Beth( Debbie's girls This is Rebekah( Susan's youngest.

these are some photos taken at Christmas time. In this first picture are my grandsons with Susan at the Camera there. On the left is Ben and the other is Levi