This And That

Good afternoon!

Well at least for some of us it's afternoon ;)

Things have been pretty quite 

as far as me blogging goes. 

Since Christmas and bringing home

the horses we've been working around the 

farm fixing buildings etc.

Typical things when you live in the country.

I must say though that even though

I've only gotten on Rosey's back

once since we bought she and Hope home

New Years Eve

I've been spending a LOT of time outside

which is a good thing because I

can sure use the exercise!

It's amazing how much poop

horses make in just 

a couple of days

and every

couple of days I'm out

scooping it up.

Our gardens will certainly appreciate

it eventually :)

Before I headed outside to shovel

more...STUFF this morning... I grabbed my camera

and walked around the house snapping photo's.

Now that the tree and decorations are down

things are back to normal again.

I haven't really made any New Year's resolutions

other than the usual trying to eat healthier

and being more active...

I think I've got the second one taken care of

thanks to the horses. 

We'll see about the eating healthier part. 

We have no plans to start renovating

the kitchen and back porch/laundry/entry

this year but you never know.

Hubby may get a bee in his bonnet

and decide to dive right in. 

I overheard him tell someone the other day

that if they come to visit this summer

they'll see a new screened porch

on the house.

I'm going to be smart and not even

mention it...sometimes things work better

that way ;)

As I was putting the decorations away I found

this old stained glass window that

came from an old house in 

British Columbia.

I had wrapped it up for one of our moves

and forgot all about it!

It had an old white chipped paint 

wooden frame around it when I bought it

about 30 years ago but in those days no one liked

that look. SO...I had it removed

from the frame.

I know...I'm still kicking myself over that one.

It got a little beat up on it's trip

down here to Kansas nearly 12 years ago

but it's still in one piece.

It's from the mid 1800's.

See the little antennae sticking out 

from the glass? 

This spring we'll be starting to paint

a few of the old buildings on the farm.

As much as I like the old 'chippy' look

somehow it doesn't feel the same when

 it comes to old buildings...at least not to me

and most especially to hubby.

Also if you want to preserve the old buildings

you have to protect them from 

the weather.

So you'll be seeing lots of 

barn red

with white trim

and visa versa 

in a few months. 

Hopefully all this outside work 

will help get me back into shape.

Now if I could only keep

my hand out of the 

cheese curl bag!

Do you have any projects planned for this year?