I can't believe how long it's been since my last post...what like 20 years???!!!  All my kids are grown and I'm an old Milkmaid!!!  Ok, not really but it sure seems like it!  How's it been going for all you wonderful folks?  Have you been busy at all those outdoor activities that always seem to fill the summer days?  Is it hot at your house?  Don't you just love those summer nights, with all those fireflys and crickets and frogs and whippoorwills???  We got a few days of nice weather and we really took advantage of it...we even slept with our windows open!  Our weather is typically very hot and humid during the summer, but a few days ago we had some California weather!!!  (Except we still had the mosquitoes bugging us!!)  Ha get it...bugging us!!!   Well, anyways.............

I was just wondering...do ya'll garden?  Have you got little gardens or big honking ones?  Well, we've got a nice size garden with corn, pinto beans, carrots, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers...  We've been fighting grass growing in our garden...it seems to grow faster that the veggies.  So the other day we were all out working in the garden...on one of those days when the weather was so nice.  Even the little chickies were "plucking" away!  But for one little chickie in particular this was a special occaision...this was her first outing in the dirt!  I know how much ya'll love those cute baby photos so here she is in all her glory!!!

Can you believe this is the sweet little baby that was born only 10 months ago...well, technically tomorrow she'll be 10 months!  She's so cute!!!  And she cleans up really well.  You should have seen her crawling around out there...she had a time!!!!  And the other chickies had a time just watching her and trying to keep her from eating the dirt!  She did manage a little bit, as you can see, but we all had so much fun!

Well, it's late and I'm tired and I have to get up early to work on building a new pen for the real chickies with the Head Farmer after I milk those especially lovely cows!  Oh, did I tell you...we have a new calf!!!  He's a little bull, but he's still cute...except when he runs through the electric fences!!!  That's the other thing I have to do with Head Farmer...roll up a bunch of fence wire!  So much for a day of rest.... oh well, there's a lovely little poem that my oldest chickie memorized last year...

Work while you work, Play while you play, This is the way to be happy each day.  In all that you do, do with your might.  Things done by halves, are never done right!!

Not sure who wrote it, but it works for me!!  Ya'll take care and have a good day!!

The Milkmaid