The Garden is Up!!

My asparagus is doing really well this spring! We are going to get three cuttings!

I planted 43 Everbearing strawberries this year! 

If the chickens continue to sneak in here, we are going to have a

'go a round'!!

Future raised beds!  Going to be planted this week!

5 different kinds of lettuce are up!

My 'fun' thing this year....cantaloupe!

Current Projects

This is our new fireplace!  I can't wait till it's done.

It just needs the top put on and then.....

bring on the marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers!!

Aleta and Delta

One of the things we did on our trip was swim with dolphins! We chose the

Dolphin Research Center

in Marathon Key.  It was a great experience!!

Meet Aleta (in back) and her 1 year old son Delta!

Cute face!

Giving Scott a fin ride!

So much fun!

Delta is still learning to give kisses, and this is as far as he will go right now....

Mama Aleta

Asparagus from the garden!!

I am so excited this is the first year I have harvested asparagus from

our very own garden!

Farm going on's...

Ok project numero uno is to fix the driveway!  DONE!

The horses will be pleased as punch!

It's quite a rough ride in a trailer, going over all those pot holes!

The ground work for the new barn is being done!  We are placing it close

to the house and the driveway.  We have too much snow to be trudging our way

to a barn! Plus, I love the smell of the barn and the horses.....

This magnificent eye sore is going going GONE!! 

Scott is having this ripped out (we are leaving the flag pole) and turned into

and outdoor patio with a brick oven fire place and some patio furniture!

I always let this grow up because I am afraid of snakes.  I just feel like they are lurking

in those weeds and rocks waiting to give me a heart attack!

This is Zip and Honey's new paddock for the time being!  

It's new and it's dry.....

and they love being next to Miss Fancy!

Hawks Cay Resort

This is the amazing resort we stayed at in Duck Key! 

It was beautiful!!

Every other night they lit this fire and had live entertainment....

(Photo from the web)

One of the two pools they had!  Heated I might add!

(Photo from the web)

The man made salt water lagoon! I didn't swim in it ....

...it wasn't heated!!

Team Penning Clinic Pt 1

So I'm taking a break in the 20 year anniversary post to show

ya some pictures of my boy and his horse Zip!

I am a proud Mama!

This has been a 2 year dream for him!  He wants to work cattle on a ranch out west 

someday.

He went to Central Maine Team Penning Clinic

and learned how to work on a team to team pen.

He loved it to say the least....

His horse loved it!!

This little girl was on his team.  It was her first time and she did amazing!!!!

"Round em' up"

"Come on cow"

She wasn't the least bit afraid and she handled her horse very very well!

20 Year Anniversary Trip Pt.2

The first stop.........Robbie's Marina to feet the tarpon! 

Tarpon have tiny little teeth, kinda like sand paper.  

Their big ol' fish!

So this is how it works......you buy a bucket of fish, and dig your thumb nail into to tail end and hold on!

Dangle it just above the water and watch the tarpon eyeball it.......

They are quick as lightning....they jump up and will take the fish and part of your hand (if your lucky),

then you can come home and show everyone your tarpon scars and scrapes!

It's a guy thing!

20 Year Anniversary Trip

Scott and I will be married 20 years on May 25th this year.  So we took a window of opportunity and went on our anniversary trip to Hawks Cay Resort, in Marathon Key, FL.!! We had the time of our lives! 

NYC!

 

Flying over NYC it was beautiful.  The sun was just coming up!

We rented some pretty hot wheels!  All I can tell you about the car is it was bumblebee yellow, with huge tires, and no matter what song you played the base made the mirrors vibrate! 

(....and Scott cried when we handed the keys in)

(Just Kidding :)

 The water!  The beautiful water!  It was amazingly beautiful!!

and.....

I loved it!

and....

I thought it was beautiful!

Scott and I tried a Florida lobster......

.....no thank you.