Spring has sprung in South Texas!

You know spring has shown up when the wildflowers start to bloom. Here in South Texas, when the bluebonnets and indian paintbrushes come out you know that spring is here.

On Saturday, we left after church to drive to Goliad, TX. The visit was two-fold. My hubby loves anything to do with tractors and every year at the Goliad County Fair, they have an antique tractor show. He enjoys going to see the restored tractors and talk to the owners and watch whatever demonstrations they have. This year the amount of tractors in the show was smaller than it has been but he still enjoyed it.

I usually look at the tractors but don't spend a whole lot of time there. My interest in coming to Goliad is wildflowers!

So, after I tear the hubby away from the tractors, we headed over to Goliad State Park. They have a wonderful nature trail that I love to walk and look at the different flowers, bugs, etc. Here is a Texas Powdered Skipper on a blue curls flower.

After the nature trail, we headed over to the Fannin Monument behind the La Bahia Presidio. There is always a beautiful display of wildflowers here every year. This year was no exception. The bluebonnets, indian paintbrushes, and yellow daisy-like flowers were out in abundance. And their colors blended together so beautifully.

It was a day filled with beauty, family, and nature. How much God must love us to give us all of this to enjoy!

Chloe says she enjoyed the wildflowers, too!



I Love This Face!

I love this face! It belongs to my grand-nephew, James Eugene. He is 2 years old and I think he is just the most handsome boy I have ever seen. I love it when I get to go watch him while his mom and dad are working. He is getting to be such a big boy. But he still likes to give hugs and cuddle. He is really into dinosaurs right now and I gave him the movie, "Dinosaur" for his birthday. His mom warned me that it is all he wants to watch and she wasn't kidding. When I sat with him a few weeks ago we watched the movie three times! I love to take his picture and this one just melts my heart. The smile (or is it a smirk) is just beautiful. His hair being messed up from taking a nap. Those brown eyes are like dark pools you could just lose yourself in. He is just a handsome boy. What do you think?

Antique Find

This little beauty was purchased by me a week ago today. We were on our way home from San Antonio and using the backroads to get home. We came to the small town of Poth, TX and I saw this antique store as we were driving through town. I asked my husband if we could stop just to look around. He turned around and we went in. I wasn't really looking for this in particular but I have been wanting to find a desk to use with school pictures. My husband walked into the back room of the store and then yelled to me to see what he found. There were two of these back there. This one was in better shape than the other. The price on the desks was $110 each! I knew there was no way I could afford to pay that much for it. My dear husband asked the girl running the store if she thought they would take $50. She said she would have to call the actual owner and find out. She called and the woman agreed to sell it to us for $50! We went on Thusday to pick it up.
I have washed it with Murphy's Wood Soap to clean it up but it really needs to be restored somehow. I am not sure how to do that or what I should use.
Hopefully I can find something online that will tell me what I should do and what I should use. I can't wait to get it looking good and using it in pictures. Stay tuned......

Chloe

This is Chloe. She is a new member to our family. We got her a little over a month ago after rescuing her from a local animal shelter. She was scheduled to be put down the next day. But we brought her home and she became a member of our family.
She is such a sweet dog. She loves to go for car rides and if she is outside when you get in your car to leave she will most likely jump in and look at you like, "OK. I'm ready! Let's go!"
She knows what the words "out" and "outside" mean. And if you ask her, "Do you need to go outside?", she jumps up and starts to run around in circles and bark.
She loves our chickens. Especially the baby ones. When we first brought her home she wanted to chase the chickens. But I scolded her and she hasn't chased them since. She walks up to them and you can tell she would love to take out after them but she holds herself back. The little ones she tries to herd together.
She broke her jaw at some point in her life and it healed crooked. It adds character to her face and actually looks like she's smiling.
She loves to be brushed. She doesn't mind getting a bath or being blow dried. She loves to sleep on our bed right in the middle.
She loves dog bones. And don't try to move it or take it away from her while she's chewing on it. She'll take you hand off.
She loves to go for walks.
She is just a sweet dog. And I am so glad we have her.
The vet couldn't tell us how old she is exactly but guesses she is between 6 and 8 years old. She has had a hard life up until now but is still sweet in spite of it.
I'm glad we adopted her.
She's pretty too!

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