Horsey Kisses and Grass Smoke

I guess this blog finds me out on my porch, watching 4 scruffy buffalo down by the driveway, a few tiny flames down by the creek that were left over from today's burn and my horses grazing peacefully out in the horse trap.  A cool south-west wind is blowing my American flag and stirring up the smell of grass smoke as the first few stars start to appear in the dark blue sky and the whippoorwills and coyotes start to sing down along   the creek.
Anyways, all of the above has nothing to do with the subject of this post!!  Last night I went out in search of new horse pictures, new close up horse pictures!  Blake was the first one to come to the fence, curious as to WHY I'm setting on the ground, whistling at him as if my very life depended on it!

"What......."

"Are......"

"You....."

"Doing?!?!"

"Hmmmmm, a camera, I like cameras!!!"

"Oh I just love to have my picture taken!!"

Now poor Blake don't have the prettiest head on him, but  sometimes you can catch his good side!  Key word, SOMETIMES!!!

Now, that's better......kinda!

Ummm,  Blake?

Blake, that's close enough!

Blake, sweetheart, you're fogging up my camera lens!!

And while Blake is fogging up my camera, Boogie is standing above me, smelling of my hair!

Why she does it? I have no clue!

Hippie Chick finally decided to quit being unsociable and come see what all the hub-bub was about! 

"Food?"

"Oh great, pictures!"

She really looks TRILLED doesn't she?!

"What IS she DOING?!"

"Ugh, I hate pictures!!"

She's 100% Angel!........Most of the time!

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Josie

7 Signs of Spring

Yesterday I went out and planted the first flowers of 2010. 

Spring is really starting to show itself around here!  

Here's the 1st sign of Spring....

See the green grass?  The horses LOVE it! ;)

The 2nd sign....

All of the trees in the yard are starting to bud out.

3rd sign....

All kinds of pretty little flowers are blooming across the yard...

And my favorite....

The 4th sign of Spring.....

Planting flowers!

Here's before I planted them...

And after....

I LOVE the smell of these!

The 5th sign....

All the bushes are starting to bloom/get green...

The 6th sign...

Fire and Smoke!

And the 7th sign of Spring is something that I can't take a picture of, it's the WIND! But I promise ya, it's there!

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Josie

Spring Burning with my new "Mascot"

Tuesday was the first day of the Spring Burns here on the Prairie.  

But before they lit the first fire of 2010, we made a little trip to town to pick up this.....

This is Sadie, she's a Beagle/Walker mix and she's the new Fire Mascot! ;)

Anyways, back to the burn...

And there was a couple of Smoke Tornados 

Meanwhile the Mascot was crashed out in my lap....

It's a hard life being a Fire Mascot!:)

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Josie

What I dream about this time of year....

It's the dead of winter right now, 33 degrees, north wind whipping outside and patches of snow from last night's little storm.  And right now all I want to see is the smallest blade of green grass, maybe a tiny bud on the elm tree by the front gate, just something that gives me the slightest hope that we haven't been moved to Alaska in the middle of the night.  But, nothing, no green grass, no tiny bud on the elm tree, nothing at all!  So, my only hope is to go through my pictures and find ones like this:

Ahhhh, beautiful!  Let's see another picture of GREEN

Middle of May I think it was, an evening thunder storm was rollin' across the prairie.  Speaking of thunder storms,

June thunder heads, but ya know what really caught my eye?  This...

 

See the T and the S?  You get it don't ya?  T S stands for Thunder Storm! 

Spring means fires on the prairie--controlled fires that is.

And BIG smoke!

And after the fire, the bluestem starts to grow and in July and August, it can get up to 11 feet tall!

And yes, I'm even ready to see grasshoppers again!

This was George, we never figured out was kind of grasshopper George was, so he remains the Mystery Yellow Grasshopper named George! ;) 

And with the coming of Spring, comes Ol' Tom out strutting around looking for a girlfriend....he was none too successful on this go-round!

And in Spring these little critters start popping up every where...

Come  May or June, the Whippoorwills come back and sing their song up and down the creek...

Once it get's good and hot, Spiderman loves his summer baths 

Can't you just see his joy?  He loves it!!

Oh, and one more picture that is Summer out and out,

Mmmmmmm, a Summer Supper!:)

So there, I'm done reminiscing about those beautiful, warm, sunshiney(sorry, I'm making up words!!) days as my fishing pole stands by my tackle box in the barn, my favorite pair of flip-flops lay in the floor of my closet as I set and dream about warm summer days!  Oh boy, am I getting dramatic!!hahaha

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Josie