I have been looking around in our yard for herbs. I have found many.

I found this one but I do not have any idea what it is.

It is fern like but very small.

Any idea's?

If you do not want to get the swine flu don't do this.

It is still raining we never get this much rain.

I love it.
Went out to check things out and found the deer.
They don't even care that I am there. Now they are more interested in some thing over there than me.

Yes Some thing is going on probably a car coming.
The want to see if they know the people.
Now they are going to the river they still don't care if I am following them.
Now if I get beat up by a deer you know why.

It rained today it was nice for a while, nice to walk around in it.

Then it got cold.

I thought I should take photo's of Willona's garden.
She sure has worked hard.
It is nice to see spring again.

We finally got our garden fence up.

Jonah and Willona put it up.

Hannah & Isaac played.
The baby and I supervised.

Yesterday it snowed in the morning but melted by evening. Today the wind is blowing pretty bad.

I am so tired of the bad weather and winter so I went looking for signs of spring.

Before I left I just had to get a picture of this cute baby. He is growing so fast. I found Love out in the front yard. He is always checking things out and usually brings me some ticks he gathered from his adventures.

I found some yappy Yorkies in the back.
The wind is blowing so hard she can hardly stand up and look at her fur.
There were a few buds on the trees in the Orchard.

I found a few flowers starting to bloom.
Not many.
Looks like some by the porch.
I found a few in the flower bed under the window it looks like we need to weed that garden.
Isaac found me a couple of dandelion's after I took the picture he ate it.

When I walked to the back yard the entire yard was full of robins.

Of course when I went to take their picture they all flew away.

Here are a couple brave ones.

And a couple more.

And the deer are still there. There is a fence between us and they don't even look up.

There is Isaac with his trusty stick.

Our wood pile is pretty bad. We had a hard winter and used both this years wood and next years. So we will have to work supper hard to get enough for next year.

There is the Chicken barn. We had a lot of chickens for 4 years then one night as they were going in to the coop for the night a bunch of raccoons got almost all of them.

They were free range chickens now we are trying to build a fence around them so they are safe.

I hope we get some chicks soon. I love chickens.

We dragged this coop all over Oregon, California and Washington.

Usually full of chickens.

Here is our guard dog Maria.

She looks friendly but she scares people to death before she even gets to them.

She is a good family dog and puts up with all the other pets and protects them.

She gets very mad at any one or thing that chases her chickens.

It was to bad she was not at the coop the night the darn raccoons took the chickens.

Many of them were pets and we sure miss them.

A herd of deer were living in our yard when we moved here.
They still hang around here.
The buck guarded our front door for a long time so no one used it we just use the side door by the driveway.
Now I sometimes see him in the back by the wood lot.

Here they are down by Willona's little orchard. Crossing the road.
They like the horse pasture across the street in the late evening.
I think they sleep in the shrubs in the horse pasture at night. They are not very save one got tired of the big dog down the street barking at her babies and kicked the dog to death before anyone could stop it. The horses do not like them eating their pasture but finally gave up running them off. That pretty white horse sure got dirty this winter
We have not had any trouble with them but we do have a pack of yapping Yorkies that like to bark at anything that might think about moving.
When Ashley was a teenage Yorkie she ran down in the back around a Doe barking all the way around it with Willona hot on her tail. The Doe just looked at Ashley and Willona as Willona grabbed the darn dog and ran back to the house.
That Doe probably could not figure out what that thing was or it would have got her.

I can't believe it is March and still snowing.

Did I ever say I hate snow? I do I do hate snow. This is Willona's orchard nothing but little twigs of trees.

It looks like we need to fence it in be for the deer eat all of them.

It finally warmed up enough to rain. We did alright with the heavy snow. Paul worked most days up in the hills from us and got stuck a few times in his work van. Most times Willona and Jonah were able to pull him out with the 4 wheel drive van. One time he really got stuck and even the tow truck refused to come pull him out so he and Jonah worked at it until they got the van out.

I finally got my computer to working also.

Willona makes such good lasagna that she has to cook it in a large turkey roaster and then it was gone in 24 hours.

I wish these photos were not so bad but OK for a $19.00 camera.

It is still snowing. The news says we have not had a winter event like this since 1968 so are calling it a 40 year storm.

I84 the Oregon side and SR14 the Washington side to the Portland have been closed for days. The finally got a bit of SR14 open tonight. SR14 is a 2 lane highway.

Everyone but me went to drop of a dog and pick up another one Sunday morning.

Jazzy being one.

They went through Yakima WA and they had to spend the night near Randal WA.

I used to be a Janitor and had to work in the snow all winter long driving around at night to get the the different jobs. And clearing the sidewalks in the morning before people started walking on them. I am so glad I don't have to go out in it now.

Snow and more snow.

Many power outages.

These were taken out the window as I am not going out in this unless I have to.

But the kids and deer love it.

My van and out in the front

Willona's van and the drive way.


Our wood that still needs to be chopped and garage

These are taken out my bedroom windows