~ Turkeys & Plumbers ~

 Good Morning Friends & Folk ~

been a minute since I've posted here, but will be posting much more often!

...really need to get back to my 'roots' and this blog was started way back in 2008 ~

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Last evening, we went for our walk ~

we have to wait until the sun is down, it's been that hot here...

the moon followed us...

our fairy solar lights come on, and that's our clue to take a walk!

 

 

this stillness of the woods and fields at dusk is beautiful,

~ the crickets and whippoorwill call to each other

while Peter is always on the hunt for tracks:

looks like an opossum friend walked just ahead of us!

and turkey tracks too!

Peter gets extra excited when he spots these LOL !

 

 by the size of these prints, a gobbler must be in our midst...

 

my farmer and his turkey....

 we named them John & Priscilla,

but we do believe we have two females...

we should soon see, as they are reaching the right age/weight to begin laying eggs...

Our baby hens have begun to lay ~

top to bottom:

Silkie, Ameraucana, 2 Rhode Island Reds, and Barred Rock.

 

 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚

This morning while the sun was just waking up...

in the cool stillness of this farmhouse, and before it turned too hot to do anything ~

I made a few more stitches on a new little cross stitch design...

 

 

of course it has turkey motifs in it... LOL

 

we have two lamps in our living room that are Apothecary jar lamps... 

you can see that I love to fill them with feathers, nests and other natural-things

that we find on our walks ~ the feather-top you see {in the lamp-base} is a wild turkey feather.

the smaller jar holds my thread orts {Old Ratty Thread Snippets} from my needlework...

we also found the jar here on this property ~

so the title of this post is Turkeys & Plumbers.

here's why:

Iggy loves the bathroom. 

He loves the tub, the sink...the faucets and the pipes.

...he insists on drinking exclusively from an old pot in our sink.

and he also insists on sleeping on the back of the toilet, in the empty tub, 

or in said sink when the pot is not in there...

hey, I get it.

the porcelain is nice and cool, 

~ and it is usually a very quiet room with not a lot of traffic.

me thinks he was a plumber in a past life.

 

 

Blessings from the Farm 

~ Lori

~ February Woods ~

Just a bunch of snaps from our walk in the deep woods today ~

 temps were in the high 70's and the wind was blowing like it was March... 

~ just perfect...

love twisted vines on trees...

shelf lichen reminds me of turkey-tail feathers...

delicate skeletal pods from mt. laurel...

my new kicks ~

old share-croppers house in the woods on our property...

time is taking it's toll ~

beautiful decay...

old tin roofing rusting away...

large holes made by woodpeckers ~

original road to the house still walkable, but is now a footpath.

pinecone

lob-lolly pine

huge twig nest

oyster-shelf-lichen

looks like fuzzy moth-wings

old pail hung in a sapling ~

put there by Peter on one of our previous walks...

reindeer moss

pepper berry

blue-jay feather has pierced through an oak leaf...

our farmhouse, viewed from the top of the ridge ~

interesting tree

worm paths

moss-covered rocks near the spring ~

watercress in the creek bed...

Peter dipping into the spring

more moss with minuscule white and purple flowers

bent by time...

I hope your weekend was filled with many small things of joy!

Blessings from the Farm ~ 

 Lori

{ A Mother's Day Gift }

I'd like to wish all of my readers a very

 

~ Happy Mother's Day ~

 

I value each and every one of you,

and think of this blog as my small gift to you...

 

if I can make you smile, cry or laugh out loud ~

remind you take notice of the small, everyday minutia that makes up our daily lives...
if I can share with you some of my feelings and values,

and help you to understand who I am & what propels me ~

and in return receive your gift of friendship & fellowship...

 

then I am the one who is truly blessed.

so here is today's gift to you...pretty pictures:

 

 

tiny Minew sitting on the shop porch in the morning sun ~

she sends her Mother's Day wishes to you all ~

this is where we think Minew has been living...under the shop porch!

her little 'front door' is flanked by sweet Lily of the Valley

how very lucky to live in a garden....
how very lucky we are that she found us.

purple iris

white iris

there is something to be said about a strong man who can also be so very gentle ~

a small harvest of strawberries

it will be another beautiful day ~ xoxox

Thank you all for your gift of Friendship

 

Lori from

Notforgotten Farm