Wonderful gifts, a Swap & a new Patio!!

Good Morning Friends & Folk ~

seems like my postings are taking a back-seat lately ~

I do apologize ~ LOTS going on here!

I wanted to share with you the outpouring of love we've received lately, 

...regarding the loss of our Lazy.

Friends from far-and-near have sent letters, cards, emails & have even delivered plants in memory of our sweet old-man dog….

I won't mention names ~ but you all know who you are.

we are so happy to know that so many loved our Lazy as much as we do ~

...truly fills our hearts.

sympathy cards & letters ~

even a beautifully stitched and framed sampler

~ in remembrance of Buddy & Lazy!

~ Hugs to all of you for your caring ~

Rhonda over at 

Dirt Road Primitives

has been the host of a fun little Farmhouse/Garden-themed swap…

and just LOOK at what I received yesterday!

a most-beautiful, robins egg blue, painted box with a beautiful vintage-looking cross stitch on top!

be still my heart ~

along with the beautiful box came a handful of threads ~

a pair of women's gardening gloves, homemade fire starters AND some my of swap-partners

seeds for cantaloupe, bittersweet, sunflowers, peppers & even watermelon!!

I guess she knows me well, huh?

this box will be put to use holding my punch needle ~ as it is just thee perfect size ~

and I adore the tiny pompom trim around the edge of the wonderful stitching :)

My thanks to Rhonda for hosting the swap, and to my swap partner, LaDawn…

Now I have to get my rear-in-gear & get my swap partner's goodies out to them!

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AND as busy as I have been inside the farmhouse working on my new Summer designs,

Peter has been outside working on this:

...a new patio!

we have 'married' our existing concrete patio with new brick pavers to make it a larger space ~

Peter also enlarged the fenced in area in the front of the farmhouse 

to make room for new kitchen/vegetable garden beds :)

{so LaDawn your seeds will be planted in here! yay!}

of course it's been raining, so there is red-mud everywhere…

and that red mud is the reason for the red brick pavers….

so we WILL be painting our concrete porch to match, 

...to help hide the muddy paw-prints of Roxy

{and Peter}

:)

here is my farmer, dressed in his gardening finery ~

 a straw hat & 'super dad' t-shirt!

always working

…. never idle….

we even put in a fountain!

I have wanted a fountain of some-sort forever,

for the sound of running water soothes me so ~ 

and

of course for my little bird-friends…

this one is huge, and has three tiers of different sized rain-barrels 

with the water coming from a small hand-pump at the top.

Roxy thinks it is her personal drinking fountain though. 

ha!

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our Hannah is home with us for a few days ~

when she comes home she always brings her shadow with her…

this shadow's name is Willie Nelson and is a purebred Italian Greyhound.

I have seen just how much this little dog loves my baby ~

and this just makes my heart happy!!

Hi Willie!

~ we love you ~

we couldn't ask for a sweeter grand-dog :)

Hoping you all have a beautiful day filled with wonderful things ~

~ Blessings from the Farm ~ 

 Lori