Tag Archives: flowers

Waking up to the Sound of Roosters

Leave a reply

Puerto Rico has nice nights.  Last night Cassie and I sat on the porch and listened to the night sounds of the coqui and the smells of the tree blossoms.  Oh and the water was back on, it was out all last night.  We ended up driving to the beach to use the outdoor shower that you use to wash off the sand at the beach!  It was kind of cool to watch the stars shining as we shampooed our hair to the sound of the waves crashing.

This morning we could hear the roosters and they actually haven’t stopped all day.  Our chickens would be jealous, the chickens here get to walk around in the streets.


I wish you could smell this!

We’ve setup a few showings for houses tomorrow in Aguada.  They are places we have been looking into for a while now on the internet.  It will be nice to see them in person.  I’ve uploaded a few pictures in a gallery from today.

What do you think of this post?
  • WOW (1)
  • Awesome (0)
  • Interesting (0)
  • Useful (0)
  • Bummer (0)
  • Whoa (0)

Hiking and Biking up the Poudre

Leave a reply

Colorado Mtns

Yesterday Britton and I met up with our friends Matt and Jamie to go hiking (Jamie and I) and mountain biking (Britton and Matt) up the Poudre River Canyon before we went to the Mishawaka reggae music festival. Colorado is so pretty in the mountains in the summer. Jamie and I hiked up a trail at Young Gulch and  saw a variety of things including butterflies, fields of purple flowers, bees pollinating flowers AND a rattlesnake.

That was really exciting and scary. He was all coiled up, shaking his rattle and ready to strike. I wanted to get a closer picture, but didn’t want to get too close. We had to warn all the people with off-leash dogs. She and I also walked up to Mishawaka as we were waiting for Britton and Matt to get done biking. We saw a dead bat and were offered to get picked up by a couple of guys on motorcycles. We said we weren’t too good at hitch hiking and that we’d just walk. 🙂 Here are a few pictures:

River and Mountain

Britton and Matt Mtn Biking
Britton and Matt Mountain Biking


Me and Jamie hiking

Jamie and Me, Hiking

Field of Flowers

Fields of Flowers

Butterfly

Butterfly on a flower

Dead Bat

Dead bat by the side of the road

Rattlesnake in the grass with circle
Rattlesnake in the Grass

This rattlesnake is so well camouflaged that I had to circle it to show you where it is in the grass. Unfortunately, all I have to work with is MSPaint on this laptop, so it looks like a little kid wrote this! 🙂

<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/dhCaKC7Seb0&hl=en&fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/dhCaKC7Seb0&hl=en&fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>
What do you think of this post?
  • WOW (0)
  • Awesome (0)
  • Interesting (0)
  • Useful (0)
  • Bummer (0)
  • Whoa (0)

Scenes of a Sunny Nature

Leave a reply

The yard is becoming quite the wonder once again. I wish it could be spring, summer and fall all year round because our house and yard look awesome and produces some terrific food in the bright sunshine. The chickens would be happier too!  But if that were the case, we might not be planning our escape to Puerto Rico!

The chicks are getting bigger. I think they are still too small to live outside, but they might be able to here in about 3 weeks. We had to put the Schnoodle baby gate over the top of the box because they kept flying up on top of the box sides and pooping.

The big chicken continues to lay her eggs in the newly constructed chicken coop, but still wants to sleep in the greenhouse. One day we closed the greenhouse to see if she would go to sleep on her own in the new coop. When we checked on her, she was sitting right outside our back sliding door, so we just let her into the greenhouse once again.

Here’s a few pictures I took today. Beware, they contain scenes of a sunny nature:

An Exploring Chick
A chick exploring in the flower garden (under supervision)

Chick on my arm
Here’s the chick on my arm and the adult in background

Columbine in Greenhouse
Columbine plant (Colorado state flower) in Greenhouse

Looking up at a columbine
Looking up at a columbine in greenhouse

What do you think of this post?
  • WOW (0)
  • Awesome (0)
  • Interesting (0)
  • Useful (0)
  • Bummer (0)
  • Whoa (0)

Colorado Spring in Full Bloom

Leave a reply

Spring is in full bloom here in Colorado. The tulips, daffodils and hyacinths are proudly standing tall. The grass is turning green, the trees are flowering. Even the dreaded dandelions are showing their pretty colors. The 70 and 80 degree weather has been such a welcomed visitor. We all (the chicks, chicken, dog, cat and people) have been enjoying spending time in the backyard. We haven’t moved the chicks or the chicken out to the new chicken coop yet, but we have started to feed the chicken there and will have to move her there soon. Anyone know how to transition a chicken from one coop to another if the original will still be around?

Two tulips

Two Red Tulips

Chick in Kitchen
Chick in our kitchen

on-step-of-chicken-coop
Showing the chicks (see chick on step) around their new home (soon)

Chick in Coop on roost
Chick on roost in coop with hay

Hanging out under the laundry basket
Chick hanging out in yard under laundry basket

Hyacinth
Pretty Pink Hyacinth

What do you think of this post?
  • WOW (0)
  • Awesome (0)
  • Interesting (0)
  • Useful (0)
  • Bummer (0)
  • Whoa (0)