I can't believe it has been a whole month since I updated from the homestead!  Of course, the weather had turned warm so I have spent all most all the daylight outside working in the yard.  Other things need done too.  Tommy adorned his protective eye-wear and helped load hay into the barn the begining of the month.  The horses should be eating less with it getting warmer now. After putting the hay in, Tom has to greet his little friends!

Woke up to a beautiful clear sky one spring morning.  Even though the sun wasn't up yet, the sky was blue and the moon was full over the south-west sky.

Tom is getting anxious on cleaning out the wooded area out back for a picnic shelter.  It is going to take a lot of raking and burning, but it will be nice when it is done....eventually.  Jessalyn was even out there getting a work out.

Jake brought Becky out early one morning.  I had told him I heard turkey out back about  6:05 a day or two before.  Sure enough, the morning they came out,  I heard a shot at 6:10!


It was also nice enough to get out on the horses.  Jess and I got out twice in one week!

Mid month storms came through.  Didn't get to cool with the rain, and it brought hail on and off for about 1/2 hour.  It looked like we landscaped with white stone, but it is all hail!  It didn't  melt fast either.,









Prom time came, and Jess' friend wanted me to do her hair.  I used bobby pin curls and sprayed it to death,  then swept everything off to one side, giving her bangs and a little lift on top.  She brought a flower clip we put in too.

Then Mother's Day.

 

Ken brought  fresh flowers and a decoration for the garden.  Becky brought flowering plants.

There were nine of us here that day!

Sabrina's kids loved being outside despite it being chilly.  They played on the slide and ran around the yard.   Jumping on the tramp and enjoying all the animals.

Time came to get into Mom and Dad's.  Thought with Jess having to go into Big Town for testing three days in a row, it would give me a good chance.  I did some weeding up front, picked up the branches and sticks that fell over the winter, and mowed  3/4 the yard. I hated to do the back hill as the one side was just filled with wild violets.  There were so many that the purple color just about blinded me when the sun shone!

It won't be long and they will be back for the summer.  Then work really begins!