Memorial Day

To those that have served

Those that are serving

and those that will serve

Thank you!

Signs of Summer

Keeping it cool

Our NEW Pool

Even the piggys

get into keeping cool

they were even 

blowing bubbles!!

Bonding hour

Have a rootin tootin good time

They're Here

Wilbur, Patty, Link and Ziffel

Pallets turned pig house

Moon over Cedar

Finally we have our piggys

They are friendly and funny

Hard to go back to work

after watching them...

VERY entertaining!

HERE IT IS

Per the request of MANY

http://barefootbroccolini.blogspot.com/

A blog for all the 

reasons to LOVE 

Leelanau County and surrounding areas!

Rude Awakening...

Saturday morning around 6:30 am we heard the rumble of a LOW flying plane

 thinking for sure it would be followed by a Crash - 

we both jumped out of bed ... running... 

we noticed a crop duster dumping some sort 

of chemical over the neighboring hood... 

After a phone call or two 

we found they 

we dumping a mystery chemicals on the trees etc.

to destroy the "tent worm"...

Our concern is that we were not given notice of this... 

and have found out since that they advise people to stay inside -

 as well as their pets....

WHAT ABOUT OUR ORGANIC farms 

 and animals 

were we suppose to roll up the fields

 and put them in the barn for a day or three?

I have made a few phone calls

I have sent a few emails...

and yet the 

name for this chemical

remains unknown?

Adding to our skepticism...

Maybe its harmless...

you know like Agent Orange was??

In the mean time I have been walking

around tearing apart the nests 

I can reach with sticks...

the birds are LOVING these tasty morsels

Remember...
When you mess with mother nature

she comes back with a vengeance!

http://www.petoskeynews.com/news/article_89b0626c-5dcc-11df-9463-001cc4c03286.html

Perfect Day

Beautiful Morning today... 

Breakfast on the back deck

watching our Blue  Friends

The Steers ran everywhere they went today

A perfect day for me is one I can spend 

OUTSIDE

After hauling manure and mulch to the neighbors

I finished up mulching our flower gardens

while Bruce worked in the shop

I worked (played?) 

with John

He is awesome...

He makes work - FUN!!

What I didn't know is 

Bruce was taking pictures :-)

Then when my body said enough

the front porch called my name

while taking a does of Vit. D

I spied 4 baby Killdeer in the pasture

...A Perfect Day

Middle May

Beautiful sunsets this spring - -
Even with our fair share of rain in May

the sunsets have been... well... see for yourself

For the first time in awhile 

Lake Leelanau

 will host a Walleye Festival this weekend

Blaze and I watched this front moving in on 

our hike this morning... 

Its been cool enough that the Tulips are still bloomin

and the Lilacs are afraid to bloom

Happy Mothers Day

A woman, renewing her driver's license at the County Clerk 's office,
was asked by the woman recorder to state her occupation.
 She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself.  
'What I mean is, ' explained the recorder,  
'do you have a job or are you just a ...?'
 'Of course I have a job,' snapped the woman.

'I'm a Mom.'

'We don't list 'Mom' as an occupation,

'housewife' covers it,'
Said the recorder emphatically.
I forgot all about her story until one day I found myself

in the same situation, this time at our own Town Hall.  
The Clerk was obviously a career woman, poised,
efficient, and possessed of a high sounding title like,
'Official Interrogator' or 'Town Registrar.'
'What is your occupation?' she probed.
 What made me say it?  I do not know.  
The words simply popped out.  
'I'm a Research Associate in the field of
Child Development and Human Relations.'

The clerk paused, ball-point pen frozen in m midair and
looked up as though she had not heard right.  

I repeated the title slowly emphasizing the most significant words.
Then I stared with wonder as my pronouncement was written,
in bold, black ink on the official questionnaire.

'Might I ask,' said the clerk with new interest,
'just what you do in your field?'

Coolly, without any trace of fluster in my voice,
I heard myself reply,
'I have a continuing program of research,
(what mother doesn't)
In the laboratory and in the field,
(normally I would have said indoors and out).  
I'm working for my Masters, (first the Lord and then the whole family)
and already have four credits (all daughters).
Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities,
(any mother care to disagree?)
and I often work 14 hours a day, (24 is more like it).  
But the job is more challenging than most run-of-the-mill careers

and the rewards are more of a satisfaction rather than just money.'

There was an increasing note of respect in the clerk's voice as she
completed the form, stood up, and personally ushered me to the door.

As I drove into our driveway, buoyed up by my glamorous new career,
I was greeted by my lab assistants -- ages 13, 7, and 3. 
Upstairs I could hear our new experimental model,
(a 6 month old baby) in the child development program,
testing out a new vocal pattern.  
I felt I had scored a beat on bureaucracy!
And I had gone on the official records as someone more

distinguished and indispensable to mankind than 'just another Mom.'  

   Motherhood!  
What a glorious career!  
Especially when there's a title on the door. 

More reasons to LOVE LEELANAU

To never take for granted 

the beauty of where we live

We take the time to play

tourist

Every now and again

 www.sleepingbeardunes.com/

Sleeping Bear Dunes at Sunset

Pierce Stocking Drive - 

Springing Along

This beauty was found on a hike 

with Julie in their woods

Three pairs of hands 

make for half time 

poop scoopin

THANK YOU

Jeremy!!