dirt road time

 Well, I wrote this Dirt Road Adventure a couple of months ago, and forgot/missed it/didn't post it.

So I will still go ahead and post it today.

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After church on a spring day.

Well, give me a few minutes to get out of my Sunday Best.....and let's go take a walk-about. 

We take a daily walk-about, checking things out and see what's growing and what needs tending.

First, lets say hi to the lovely ladies at the Coop:

They love attention and are always glad to see us!

PollyAnna

Rose

BlackBeauty

Today we've brought watermelon, so they are very excited!

Rose getting snuggled by me:

Lets gather some fresh eggs!

Because of them, we have these:

and we sure LOVE THESE! LOL

a tired angel leaning

Lots of petunias in bloom:

Taking used coffee grounds out to feed my roses. They sure love it

This bush has over a dozen blooms on it all at once, so I am thrilled with it!

interesting algae things growing on bark

The baby chicks are hungry too, let's go feed and water them. I take them treats too, they are like little raptors! They are getting big so fast! The black and white ones are the friendliest. Here's a few of them:

the Tater Field:

Howdy!

the cannas are getting big! I'm looking forward to big red blooms. This is their third year, so they'll do even better this summer.

Time to feed and water the baby Keets. They are still doing great. They sure put the food away! They eat alot more than I expected, since they are so tiny! They have the sweetest little sing-song voices, love to hear them chirping and singing!

Mr. Front Porch discovered huge blackberry patches a few days ago! Getting lots and lots of bowls!

here's a patch of the berries while they are still red, and not purple yet

Little baby watermelons! So tiny, so cute! We will probably get these in the ground this weekend.

and our maters are doing well and have tiny babies on them. Fried green maters......can't wait!

the tater patch

and the squash and beans are doing great so far. That tiny squash is Tansy size! LOL

this is a four 'o clock flower that came up smack dab in the middle of the tater patch! LOL

We have a visitor this week:

Actually, there are two.

The pictures are not very good, but the cheery yellow bird is BEAUTIFUL! Such a splash of sunshine!

Well, that was a fun look back at summer! Those baby chicks are now full grown teenagers, and laying lots of eggs.

The "maters" and "taters", beans, and squash have all been dug up, picked, cooked and eaten.....or processed to eat this Winter.

The baby keets Guineas, are now full grown and big and pretty. And so noisy! They are fun birds.

The four o clocks, roses, and petunias are still in full bloom. So are the mandevilla and moonflowers, and white daylilies.

Those tiny baby watermelons totally surprised us and we grew a small field of them. It was our first year for watermelons, so that was surprising and fun. The guineas and chickens enjoyed fresh watermelons on lots of hot summer days, I put it in the icebox for them.

Happy Weekend, enjoy Fall, and still praying for the victims of the awful hurricanes.

What is your favorite part of Fall?

Fall has arrived

 good-bye summer....

Somehow Fall slipped in!

John Sloane calendar, September

"try to remember the kind of September

When life was slow and oh, so mellow.

Try to remember the kind of September

when grass was green and grain was yellow.

Try to remember the kind of September

when you were a tender and callow fellow.

try to remember, and if you remember, then follow.

Try to remember when life was so tender

that no one wept except the willow.

try to remember when life was so tender

that dreams were kept beside your pillow.

Try to remember when life was so tender

that love was an ember about to billow.

Deep in December

it's nice to remember, although you know the snow will follow

Deep in December it's nice to remember

the fire of September that made us mellow.

Deep in December,

Our hearts should remember.....and follow......"

......1960 Broadway musical

Does anyone remember this old song?

I did a bit of decorating about the house

I haven't even put my summer pocketbooks away......I just slapped some Fall florals into them! LOL

My little Pilgrim People. They are decades old now.

they are standing in front of the old radio I blogged about a couple of posts back

Some cheery little Scarecrows jumped into my seahorses and peacocks that are on this fireplace mantel:

....and another one in this hall:

Swaying in the hot breezes......Spanish Moss and the last of the Crepe Myrtle blossoms:

The remaining ones were ripped off by Hurricane Helene's rampage through South Carolina and many other states the other day

"Mandy", our Mandevilla is blooming again, with her scarlet blooms

and my buttery yellow begonia has once again bloomed:

Pretty butterflies visiting

I hope everyone is safe and that you had no damage from Helene. The devastation in so many states is just awful. We were without power here for a day, and so many are still waiting for theirs to be turned back on. So much damage to people's homes, livelihoods, cars, properties, towns, highways, and lives lost. It was a bad bad storm.

 We have alot of yard damage here, but our home is safe, and the big trees that came down narrowly did miss our guineas and chickens coops. We are grateful as it could've been so much worse.

If you were in the path of this dangerous storm, how was it where you live?