Category Archives: Spring

Mother’s Day 2010

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We had a nice weekend today and I was able to put together our first spring flower bouquet. This bouquet is made with columbines, tulips and bleeding hearts from our flower garden!


Flower details

For Mother’s Day we went over to Britton’s parents’ house and helped to put up a lattice area with his sister as a surprise to his mom. Then later in the afternoon we had my parents and grandma come over for some shish-kabobs. It was a nice, sunny and windless (thankfully!) day. Happy Mother’s Day!


3 generations plus 2 chickens

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Quick and Tasty Snacks

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We happened to take a sample snack at the grocery store the other day, and immediately liked it. It was quick and easy, and quite tasty. I think they’re called California Snackers.

Ritz crackers (whole wheat)
Avocado slices
Tomato slices
Salsa

Place the avocado first, then the tomato and the dap of salsa on each Ritz cracker. Voila! Instant hors d’oeuvres!


California Snackers

We also have lots of lettuce coming up in the greenhouse and garden. It is the clip and keep growing kind, so for the whole summer practically until it bolts we will have fresh garden salads! Yum!


Our first salad a few weeks ago with our boiled eggs -of course!

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Rainbows over Greeley

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We’ve been taking our afternoon/evening walks lately now that the weather has started to warm up a bit. We were out today and it started to drizzle a little rain. When we looked up we saw a full-arch rainbow. By the time we walked back home it had stopped raining for the most part and the rainbow was slowly dissolving away. I managed to get this shot through one of the flowering crabapple trees in the front yard. I thought it was pretty cool. Now we just need to search for those pots ‘o gold.


Through the flowering tree


This is over the neighborhood pond. Britton took this one with his cell phone.

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Omelette’s Got No Toe

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I noticed our chicken Omelette had a missing toe the other day -or at least half of it was missing. It was bleeding and she was limping a little. She is the really sketchy chicken. We got her as an adult chicken and so she wasn’t hand-raised like all the other ones. Plus Leghorns are known for being a little more skittish than some of the other breeds. Because of this, I couldn’t treat it or wash it out or anything. Anyhow, I managed to snap a few photos of her foot with the missing toe. I think her toenails must just be too long and she got it snagged on something. It looks like she is doing ok now though even without any of our help…


Close up of the missing toe (click for a larger view)

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