• Jun. 16, 2009
I’ve absolutely no idea where I’m going or where I’ll end up.

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  This afternoon it was overcast, great soft lighting for photography…although rather flat. So I grabbed my camera, slipped on some old Crocs and headed for the great outdoors.

I just wandered around our property, no objective (aside from getting some nice photos) or object of destination, hence the title of this post.

I love this one, I think this fluffy seed pod looks like a lacy firework.

Okay, so the flower is a little over-exposed, but I think it kind of looks like a watercolor.

English Plantain, it is a "weed" (with several herbal uses), but I think the seed head is cool :-)

I raided our strawberry patch J, and near a stand of pine trees in our gully area, I found some itty-bitty wild strawberries. They are so cute and petite. Great for snacking, they are too small for much else. Just imagine how many of them it would take to make a simple pie!

Look how tiny they are!

The soybeans are growing!

Mulberries are also everywhere. And I do mean everywhere.

On our land we probably have around twenty mulberry trees/saplings.  I suggested that the boys pick and eat some when they played outside, and that one innocent comment has kept History Boy busy for over an hour J.

 We had an eventful weekend; a neighborhood garage sale (which turned out to be a bummer-I didn’t make one red cent! There goes that zoom lens I’ve been dreaming about…), not many people stopped by and even fewer bought. Next year we should have a neighborhood/family swap and donate the rest to Goodwill, skipping all the hassle of a sale.

And the icing on the cake:

On Sunday Becky cut herself on our old tractor trailer-and it was rusty.

I had been riding and we were walking into the barn. She kept trying to shove ahead of me, and in her excitement, her near (left) hind leg got caught on the corner of the trailer.

At first I didn’t even notice it, and when I saw blood trickling down her leg I thought she had been bitten by a horsefly (horsefly bites can sometimes bleed a lot). But I saw two light patches on her leg, and looking closer saw that skin and hair had been torn off.

I didn’t freak out then, but I was worried: when and on what had she gotten cut?

Going back through the barn to go find some peroxide, I saw a tuft of hair stuck in the corner of the trailer and another one on the floor. Then I did get scared. I kept thinking that, if we didn’t do something soon she could get tetanus and possibly die.

Well…it’s not as bad as all that. At first I thought I was seeing muscle, but no, just several layers of skin were torn off. So, I doctored her up, and yesterday (Saturday) we bought a tetanus vaccine and gave it to her. We tried calling our vet, but she hasn’t called back, that’s why we did it ourselves. Thankfully she had shown me a few months ago the general area to administer vaccines.

Today the gashes are looking much better, and they hardly bubbled when I poured peroxide on them. Dad got some stuff kind of like a spray bandage or New Skin, and that’s good because I couldn’t keep a bandage (I tried that stretchy bandage that sticks to itself and then clear Duct tape, don’t you just love Duct tape?!) on that section of her leg, and I don’t want flies and other bugs to infect the cuts.

The main two are on her shin (she got another tiny one a little further down), about three and a half inches and to the front of her hock.

Already they are showing signs that soon they will be scabbed over, which is great. 

She isn’t bothered by all this though! She is even holding still for me when I clean her leg J.

 Wow…I get carried away writing, don’t I?

I sometimes feel like Anne in “Anne of Green Gables” when she said something to the effect of ‘“If only you knew how many things I wanted to say [in my case, write] but don’t…”’ J

4Him,

~Hannah

P.S. I wrote this yesterday...lol.

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• Jun. 18, 2009
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Posted by Emily94

Thank you so much for the advice on getting a camera! It will be extremely useful! I've been to your blog several times before and have really enjoyed looking at all your pictures. Would you like to be friends?
Thanks again!
Emily

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• Jun. 18, 2009
Goodness!

Posted by swordwieldingmaiden

Well, I'm glad everything is going better now!

My, yes! Garage sales can be so frusterating! I helped a lady with a garage sale this year... hardly made any money, but I did get some cute stuff from her!! *smiles sheepishly*

Have a blessed day!

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