Well, this was a rather fun exercise. My instructions were to go to where I keep my picture files on my computer, find the fourth folder, find the fourth picture, and put it on my blog and explain it!
Since I have a new computer (December 08), I do not as yet have a lot of pictures on it, so my picture is a recent one. It was a rather pleasant day a couple of weeks ago and I enjoyed hanging a load of wash, including sheets, on the line for the first time. I decided to take a picture of it and a few other things around the homeplace in celebration of the hope of spring!
To the left in the picture you can see the edge of my garden which Ken had plowed a couple days before. Garden pictures just get better and better until September. But the plowing is the necessary beginning. Next I need to get out the Troy-Bilt rototiller and go over it all about three times before I dare plant anything in the ground. Both the clothesline and the garden are what I see when I look out my kitchen window over the sink. I certainly do love watching my garden grow!
In the right foreground is our dog, Shelby, aged 1 1/2. He has lots of love to give, and enjoys showing me by jumping all over me, licking my hand, and being a nuisance some of the time! We got him last May. He did a great job last summer of preventing the deer from coming in to eat the fresh young greenery in my garden. It was a major problem the previous year and we ended up putting a barbed wire fence around the garden. I HATED that view from my kitchen window, but I hated the deer damamge worse.
In the distant background you can see part of our neighbor's house and their trees. They have been very good neighbors to us for all the 38 years we have lived here. They are about 20 years older than us and spend part of the winter in Florida now. The two houses (theirs and ours) were once part of a dairy farm, and Smiths lived in both houses and ran the farm together. We share the same well and gas meter. Our house is 150 some years old, and is said to be the oldest occupied house in this country community. Our neighbors house is newer, probably about 120 years old or so, and they are relatives of the original Smiths who built these house.
So, that's my picture! I don't know if it is worth 1000 words, but that's what this lady gave it!
1 comment:
Wonderful post Alma!! And a neat picture. I've been trying to take a photo a day this year .... and this one of your's is just the perfect style. We often don't take pictures of our every day life .... and with your "1000 words" you've got it well-journalled already! Love it! Thanks for sharing!!
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