Oophs...  I haven't written since April.. so sorry... I have been busy... great excuse eh...I have been doing a lot of knitting, "flower basket shawl" for Joe's Theresa, swallow tail shawl for friend's birthday, and another "flower basket shawl" for a blind auction..(hmmm not sure that is the right word).. got the word..."SILENT" auction... those shawls are very easy, and only a 9 row repeat, so it is easy to remember..  Spring has been very slow coming this year..both my cherry trees are blooming.. yipee... i love cherries.. both apple trees are showing buds..a granny smith, and an Ambrosa... 

Larry decided that he was going to build me a green house this year, I have been waiting for 20+ years.. what do ya think... We have a company here in Merritt, called "good earth"..they compost soil and all kinds of good stuff, so we got a dump truck load... beautiful black stuff... you mix it 1 to 3of your own dirt.. then he got carried away (no picture yet).. he built a potatoe box (we have a tough time growing spuds in my garden boxs, they get really mushy when cooked, I think they get too much water when we water the rest of the boxes) so this box will only get water when i want it... and then he got carried away again, he wants strawberries, I hate them as they are so hard to weed, so he built another box for his strawberries, and put a heavy duty tarp on the ground.. so will go look for some plants today... I have kept him busy the last couple of weeks, meat chicks are coming today, and then the turkeys and the laying hens  are coming near the end of June..Larry wanted "Rhode Island Red chickens"  and of course the chicks are not sexed, so ya get roosters and hens, so we are hoping to get at least 12 hens, the roosters are raised for meat birds..

Picked up the chicks, they were 3 hours late.. brought them home, and of course all the dogs where under foot, I went thru the gate at the shop, turned to the left toward the chick house, and Dixie (the border collie) was waiting at the door of the chick house..   she laid in the door way while i watered and feed them... went back in a couple of hours, she won't let any of the other dogs near her CHICKS..  Joe teases her while she is in the house, he calls her and yells "Chickens" and she is at the door waiting for us... silly old girl....
Yankee has been talking up a storm, he makes us laugh every day...He has figured out when Cleo (the cat) is in... as soon as i take the dogs to bed, and Cleo is in the house, he starts calling 'Cleo, Cleo, and she comes out for her bedtime treat... and if she isn't in, he calls Levi... and believe it or not, he really knows when she in the house..  When the dogs are in trouble, and i call them, and they come right away, they get a "Yippee" and they get a treat for coming so good...now Yankee asks for a cookie (at treat time for the dogs) and yells 'Yippee'... he is waiting for the weather to warm up, so he can go outside..    Okay.. i have written enough today... although i need to change my picture..nite