SISTERLY AFFECTION

I have four sisters, and three of them live within an hours drive from me, and for that I am very grateful.  We regularly meet at my Mom's house for "Sunday lunch/games Day".  However, my fourth sister, Donna, lives in Cody, Wy. and we don't get to see her very often!  So, I thoroughly enjoyed her visit to Texas last week.

Tom & I went to Mom's last Sunday for lunch/visit and that evening we drove Donna to a hotel near DFW, where she planned to stay before her early morning flight back home to Wyoming on Monday morning.  How lucky I am to have such a wonderful loving family!  

                                                      Donna & Me

Spring has Sprung!!  The grass is green (and growing) and needing mowing regularly, wildflowers are in full bloom!  The bluebonnets, crimson clover, indian paint brush, and so many others are just beautiful everywhere, and especially along the roads as we drive!  I must get some photos soon!

Is it snow??   No, that's where I brushed my horse, Tex, before saddling him yesterday morning before my Thursday Saddlebags Ride!

Tom is preparing the soil for our garden!  I love smelling the freshly turned dirt! 

Our neighbor has leased the twenty acres behind our house and is preparing to sprig it with coastal bermuda hay, great for his cattle!

We are having a carport/storage/shop area added onto the west side of our little house next week!  We are excited!  Since turning our "backroom" into a nice little dining area, we had no place to put Tom's workbench, and all the other things we had in that backroom!

So, I can see a lot of painting in my future!  I've already painted that dining area and our kitchen and part of our front room.  Now, I just need to finish the front room, then paint our bedroom.  Then comes the exterior of the house.  Our little house has been green for many years, but we have decided to go with a much lighter color.  Sort of a cream color with a burgundy trim!

Spring is a busy time of year for us!  Last Spring, I missed out on all the "fun" here by being out on the Appalachian Trail hiking to Maine!  I felt guilty a lot of the time while I was hiking, because "Pyro" was here doing all this Spring work here at home alone and I was just getting up each day and walking in the woods!  I am very happy to home and I'm relishing all the joys of Springtime in Texas!