It's a busy week here, and my days are filled with substitute teaching, taking children to appointments and activities, running to the grocery store, and tackling the endless loads of laundry. I'm pretty sure none of you want to see or hear about all of that. So I decided to post some pictures taken over the past few days of sights on and around our farmhouse. Even though it was 22 degrees here this morning, everywhere you look, the beginning of spring is evident.
We drove past an Amish farm the other evening and witnessed this newborn foal getting up and walking on its wobbly legs for the first time. It felt like we were witnessing a miracle.
I only wish I could have gotten closer. These were taken from our vehicle with my phone.
No leaves on our birch tree yet, but its light colored bark really stood out against the blue sky and kelly green grass. The kids managed to nail in some platforms on some of the tree limbs. Our youngest son can climb to nearly the top, which is about even with the attic floor of our farmhouse. He's bound and determined to turn my hair gray!
The sky on Saturday looked like a painting. Unfortunately, this turned into wet, windy, cold weather the next day. We had wind gusts up to 70 mph that night and part of Sunday. Nothing was damaged here, thank goodness.
Little grape hyacinths have popped up near the creek. We're hoping that Morel mushrooms will be following close behind. The woods are full of them up here in May, if you know where to look. They sell for an astronomical price on the Internet and at our local Wegman's.
The grass and mosses are really turning bright green everywhere, including this brook that flows down the mountain on the other side of our lane.
OK, so these may have nothing to do with Mother Nature and spring, but I found these paisley sneakers at Target this weekend, and I couldn't resist sharing. I just want to wear them with everything. If I could find them in a pair of ballet flats, I don't think I'd wear anything else for the next two months.
The children were outside most of the day Saturday. My husband has our younger boys all pumped up about rocket mass heaters. They now want to build these miniature versions out of bricks all over our back yard. Our fire-loving son spent hours tending to his until it got hot enough to boil water. Not sure why that was the goal, since the water didn't get used for anything.
Our sheep and goats are so happy to be out on green pasture again. They're still eating hay too, so they are getting quite round. It's almost time for sheep shearing and kidding. We expect baby goats by next month at this time. Can't wait!
I'm going to admit that these little mounds puzzled me when the younger children and I were at the park last week. They looked like small ant hills, but there were small yellow/black bees or hornets hovering over them. We get plenty of yellow jackets here, but I'd never seen them with nests in the ground before. These flying insects weren't aggressive, and they would sometimes dip down into the hole and fly back up again. I did some googling, and I can't determine if they are a type of yellow jacket or a ground bee or something else I'm not even aware of. If any of you knowledgeable readers out there can enlighten me, I would really appreciate it.
I hope your first week of April is warmer than ours. I am grateful, though, that we didn't get any of the forecasted snow here.
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