A Little R & R

No, I didn't get to spend the weekend here but reading a book in this setting would have been a real weekend of R & R............. :) Instead I tried to do a little relaxing here at the farm. Hubby's son David came up from New Orleans and brought us a cooler full of huge fresh Shrimp! They de-headed them and I washed them and bagged them for the freezer.







I got this cute tissue holder in the mail. I won this on Linda's Prairie Flower Farm Blog last week! Thank you Linda, I love it!

Remember I told you I planted seed to grow these Pink Swirl Hardy Hibiscus?

So far I have 15 out of 21 coming up!

We planted this Bottle Brush Tree in March 2008. It is blooming for the first time!!

I can't wait till it is in full bloom!

On Saturday it was a cool 80 degrees with a good breeze so I sat in the Pond House watching Momma Mallard swim with the 3 baby ducks..............Click on the pics for a close up view!

I wish they would stay this small, they are so cute!

You may remember awhile back I posted on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, our resident Blue Heron. I told you how Hubby fishes for him..........Here he waits for Hubby to throw him a bream.

There it is Henry! The first of three Hubby caught for him!

He has it in his beak..........

If you look below the black stripe on his head, you can see it going down his throat!

And this fellow flew over to get in on the action. Unless he is some kind of a Goon, I don't know what he is..........

So mainly I just read, watched the chickens and pond life and took it easy over the weekend!

I hope yours was restful too!

"Hemingway....and Three Visitors" .........

If you remember awhile back I introduced you to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow our resident Blue Heron. Today you will meet Ernest Hemingway, a White Crane. It's not easy to get pictures of Hemi as everytime I get my camera ready, Henry chases Hemi off!

I zoomed this one and it blurred....................

Yesterday morning as we drank our coffee on the screened porch, we had three surprise visitors.

Hemingway was already out there fishing, so I grabed my camera...........

Three Canadian Geese stopped by for a swim and partook of the morning fish feeding!

They didn't seem to mind having their picture taken....................

You can see Hemi moved to the far bank not quite sure who these three were.

Between the geese and Hemmi you can see that one of the Mallard Drakes jumped in to investigate the squatters. They stayed around for a couple of hours, played us a honking tune

and flew out headed North...........We have no idea where Henry Wadsworth was all day but he returned late in the day having missed it all! Hemingway had fished all day in peace!