Looking around

Spring usually always renews my hope in God.  Not that it's fledgling like that, it just makes me happy to come out of the dry, cold days of winter, and see all the new possibilities.

New growth,

and new babies.

(We're up to about 15 baby lambs, including the triplets we are STILL feeding with bottles 4 times a day...by the way, NOT so cute anymore,) new everything.  I mean, if we didn't have animals who had new babies every spring, I would certainly NOT have these in my kitchen sink!

We are WAY past this time in our lives.

Spring brings me beautiful bouquets of my favorite purple flower when Grace comes back from helping Brent with the sheep and remembers I love these.

Spring, when it's warm enough, brings me outside to take walks with Rudy down our long gravel road.

It reminds me that the time is coming to get my garden planted and to plan ahead for all the canning/freezing I'll do.

Yes, I may grumble when I'm fully in the midst of it, or when my sweet corn is ready the exact week of the County Fair, but we stumble through it, and have plenty to eat from all winter.

My life, as unglamorous as it is, IS MINE, Spring or Summer or Winter, or Fall.

Has Spring sprung...YET?????

Ok. It's March 11th. Surely Spring is just around the corner, right? RIGHT??!!!


In the midwest, not so much. We're still enduring cold, cloudy, rainy days. Yesterday there was even SNOW! Ugh. I'm through with this already!

BUT, today, ah, today, the sun shone ALL DAY! I've been taking Vitamin D supplements since it's been so dreary here, but today, the real deal was outside.


Even the animals were excited.


You can't hear them, but the hens were clucking loudly!
and producing 12 eggs for us today. {Ah, the daylight does wonders for egg production too!}



The ewes (and Rambo, the only male) were delighting in the sun too.


Even our new puppy Marley was overly excited...oh wait, that might be just because he's a puppy!


By the way, isn't he adorable. He's in the with sheep now. His "job" has begun. He's getting used to the sheep little by little. Rambo is the only one he seems to have bonded with. We've witnessed, on two occasions, Marley licking all over Rambo's face, while Rambo stands completely still! Unbelieveable!

King of the pasture! {looks real tough, doesn't he?!}



After chores, I walked around the house looking, {and hoping} for some sign of life, some little "green" tidbit. This is all I got. I guess it's somethin'.


What I really can't wait to do is visit my favorite greenhouse, Prairie Trail Farm. You can find their website here.


Just look at her greenhouse.
This is where I got all my heirloom variety vegetables last year. They were GOOD! And not genetically altered in any way.


And look at all the arrangements she has in her greenhouse and around her shop.

Gorgeous!


So, with my tomatoes in boxes in the kitchen window (started from the tiniest of seeds), I'm ready to begin spring. Come on baby, let's get the show on the road!

I'm hooking up with Amy at Verde Farm's Farm Friend Friday. Come over and join me!