Etsy spotlight

Etsy time again!

Here are my hearted faves:

From Crimson King

Lightsaber earrings! The only thing to make'em better is if  they were RED! (I'm a Darth Vader girl)

From Gr0glmann

These would go PERFECTLY with those saber earrings!

From Rover Dog

awww....isn't it cute?? (The dog AND the jacket)  Ella would look fab in it! If only it wasn't a wallet flattening price of $80! 

From Hearts4ever

DARTH VADER!!  I am a freak for this character! (and Padme)

These are my recent hearts on the fabulous place of Etsy....I love that place.

Pets contest.

 My beeeautiful puppy! I just love this brain less sweetie!

 Here is my brainless again!

 umm..  this is Angus.....

 The sleeping Morris!

 So he sleeps again!

Tiger in a small body!


The Jack Russel is Ella.
Orange taby is Morris.
And.....The funny dog is Angus.

coyote trouble!

We have 3 bands of coyotes hunting in and around the pastures that surround the house.  Not very good for livestock owners. One morning when I had gotten up to walk Ella, I could hear one howling way out in the back pasture.  Then Daddy and Mama heard some a few days ago and they were MUCH closer, one as close as the swamp just beyond the yard!  But I think the most 'scariest' account of them happened to me today. I had gone out to take some pictures of wild yellow flowers that had sprung up towards our 'tree fort' (a MASSIVE 3 story tree fort that is back in the woods in the front pasture). First I started on the bunch close to the tree fort trail, I started hearing the odd sound, it was like a yapping and whine all at the same time (very odd sound!) I didn't think much of it, probably just a bird.  The lighting wasn't good there, so I went a little farther away from the TH trail, And the sound was louder over there, plus i could hear something moving around in all the dead leafs that cover the ground inside the tree line. Probably just a bird hopping around or a rabbit, no alarm. But What finally raised my attention was One of the horses (named Big Mama~ why, I don't know, she has never been a mama)  came galloping from around the woods, Her ears where laid back and she was acting startled. "She wasn't planning on finding me here, thats all" I thought. I moved slowly away and she seemed a little more calm. I started walking away, and Big Mama went on down the trail to the fort.  By the time I got to the big Livestock fence to enter our backyard, Big Mama had rounded up all the other horses and they where running out of the woods.
So, I thought, I probably just heard birds making noise and the horses moving around.
But When I got to the house and told Evan my story, and by the time i had described the call to where he could mimic it well, He told me that coyotes make that noise, So, nevertheless, until Daddy, My brave bros and a friend can rid us of these wild dogs, I wont be going to take wildflower pictures without a bodyguard! ;-D.
A dear friend of our, Named Mr. Steve is coming tonight to help the boys hunt down the critters, The boys are pretty excited! From what we hear, coyotes are hard to hunt, so you need to be SUPER quiet, SUPER still and DO NOT BE IN THE WIND.

So, hopefully either they will become nonexistent. or will simply move to better hunting grounds...cause there are some pretty good photography opportunities over there!!

This an' that, that an' this...

We FINALLY named our grown-up Guineas..... The female~ Kinfe, meaning 'wing' in African,(she has one white feather on each wing tip) and the male~Zareb, Meaning 'Guardian' in African (they are birds that originated in Africa...why not name them such?).
Also....don't think I told y'all this...We had to get rid of Sarge...the poor puppy, He killed one of our Guineas (that is the reason We only have 2 Guineas), so a lady that works at Daddy's office took him, I felt so sorry for Sarge, He didn't want to go with her when We got there, Zeb had to carry him to her truck, :-(.
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We are trying to hatch a Chicken egg, The boys have it under a heat lamp in their room, I'm not positive it'll work....
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Titus is growing.
and I don't like it.
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I have picked out my Pictures for the MAF (short for Marianna arts festival)!!! Will show later!
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Reading 'To kill a mockingbird' to the boys, and 'Little house in the big woods' to the girls.
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We got a new storage shed!! it is for our BBQ supplies, as well as Mama's Sweet marmalade Booth supplies as well..I tell you, with Our nice BOSE speakers, Watching movies on family night in there is AWESOME!!
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O.K, now I've gotta go, I'm falling asleep here...Good-night!!

**Ashley**

Pictures from the Jazz festival!

Thia was a funny sign on the building behind us,

Our BBQ booth,

This was a old Coca-cola cooler, as you can see, AND it was for sale,

It was my job to watch the little girls, So first they participated in a sidewalk chalk drawing contest,

and they got VERY dirty doing that!! ;-)

Then they made pinch pots. Benna,

Shauna,

Annaruth,

Kyla,

And painted, Shauna and Annaruth,

Benna,

And Kyla,

there was a Mural art, which they did a little, but by the time We got there it was already mostly done,

This was a Chalk drawing that a man worked on nearly ALL AFTERNOON! it was neat to watch him draw it,

There was a Old car show, (I LOVE OLD CARS!!)

There where SO many dogs!! Chihuahuas to....

....Great Danes! I'm not going to post ALL the dog pictures I took, but there where Poodles, French Mastiffs (THAT was a HUGE dog!), Cocker spaniels, Chocolate labs, and a bunch of other breeds!by the way, That cute Lil Chihuahua in the picture, is now Our puppy.....;-P,

And last of all....a fun car picture I took....Like I said before, I LOVE old cars!

so....there is the Jazz fest pics, Hope you enjoyed!!