Archive | August, 2010

Traveling Season Begins!

Rebecca and I have a full schedule with many engagements over the next few days! Follow us as we travel west posting pictures and commenting on our adventures. First stop: San Antonio, Texas! We have a speaking engagement at the TNLA  (Texas Nursery and Landscape) convention where I will be speaking on using bulbs in [...]

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Peasants

Plopping myself near the fan at the cabin on Sunday, I opened up this book given as a birthday present to me a couple years back. Inspired by Chris who is an avid reader, I am trying to become more bookish myself. This delightful story can be read in one sitting, and the illustrations are [...]

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Summer Days…

Chihuahua dog is always happy to see me come home. As mentioned before, he has this bad habit of jumping in ours as well as our guests’ cars! Watch him playing a game with me here in this YOU TUBE VIDEO. I was on the farm this morning, shipping out orders, and was delighted to [...]

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Sad Day

The landscape around the cabin changed dramatically yesterday when the calves were taken away from their mothers. Gruff male voices and rattling sounds outside our bedroom window early Sunday morning jolted Chris out of bed. Cowboys arrived with their horses and trailers to do a little rounding up. Terrible, waling sad mooing let us know [...]

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Jingles

Just in case any of you were looking for a reason to smile today, let me introduce you to Jingles. Not Mr. Jingles not Bo Jingles just Jingles because he joined the family around Christmas time. Jingles is a papillon which in French means butterfly. The name comes from the long, fringed hair that drapes [...]

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Phlox and Peacocks

On Monday we left the cabin early for a trip to Weatherford to see Clark Gardens. I have been asked to speak there before, and I have accepted, delighted to spend an evening on “the hill” tucked back in to a garden paradise. Of course, I normally talk in the fall, when the Sternbergia are [...]

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Country Sunshine

Don’t let his I’m too cool for school look confuse you. It was hot outside today on the farm, and Chris sweats A LOT. Listening to the radio while we packaged orders, the announcer kept mentioning “that it was inadvisable to be working outside in these record temperatures.” Ha! The orders had to be shipped. [...]

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Leap of Faith!

Talk about a leap of faith! Thank you, Stacy, for passing this video along to us. I am walking out the door to begin shipping orders out at the farm but had to share this. These little guys will keep you smiling all day long! Enjoy! YOU TUBE VIDEO – DUCKLINGS FREE FALL

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