Orange-you-glad you stopped in

June has been event-ful.  With a horse clinic and art gallery and shows and nature showing up

in orange this year.

We have Orioles feeding at our place!

We were in Swift Current visiting our blessing, Tom.

See below pics of his yard.  He has beautiful evergreens.  He also has some

different "accents" placed around the place.

I see face with a downward smile and the arm reaching up.

He must be doing something with this Mask -
I think he said he is making a body for it.
  It's a bit spooky sitting out in the sun room.

An old shed came with his property.  The shed is pretty decent inside with work bench and space for storage.  

The basketball net came from our acreage outside

Swift Current.  

South West Art Gallery June 8, 2019

Tom's Pokemon Puppets

He also has his FNAF and marionette puppets (14 total)

on display at The Lyric Theatre in Swift  Current until the end of August.

Here's a couple of Iphone videos.

Tommy's Puppet Lab

As a developing Artist, my son is quite excited right now!


Grace at Horse Clinic....

A horsemanship clinic at Springside was on June 1, 2; so who participated in this?  Not me this year.
 The only horse we had that really needed to be around other horses and a new situation was Grace.  Brian rode her and I watched Friday night.  We learned that this mare is a highly sensitive horse and she needs to be treated with very light reins and subtle consistent cues. She was the only mare at this clinic so she was busy flirting and being distracted on the last day.  So thankful Brian went with her this year.

John Tilley (Tilleys Custom Colts & Horsemanship)


June is a wonderful month!

moments at the side of the road

 I turned in for a little stop (nature calls), on my way to Regina.

I had my new camera in the back seat, to my delight..  

It was so relaxing to just shoot nature.

Rodents Beware Read If You Dare

Moles are so ugly.  I have not seen one face to face so I looked it up

on google images.

I was grossed out when I saw this image of a Mole

Brian is pretty good at trapping them and preventing an onslaught

of this dirt digging rodent in our horse pastures. Ugly right?

If the monitoring of Moles was not done our pasture would be full of

deep holes for the horses and us to trip in;  could be serious leg injury for

animals.

boring video on setting Mole Trap

facts about Moles

Since we moved here 5 years ago,  hubby has had to purchase traps

and learn about how to trap them.  

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onto another rodent.......

We have Voles scurrying under our

deck this spring.

This is our Vole trap

click here for facts about Voles

We have also seen Badger holes on our pasture walk recently.

This is what a Badger looks like.

This is a Badger pasture hole

Other than these rodents, besides a few gophers, (we have one striped gopher

that we keep as a pet.)

  He is very harmless and doesn't dig big destructive holes.

If you read to the end of this post , good for you!

rain sprinkle and B & W

Rain came yesterday, for a short time, and I thank you for that.

I know more will come again at some point this spring.

 It was so much greener and fresh in our yard, I thought

changing photos as black and white would be fun.,  Flowers, not so much,.

They need to show their beautiful colours.

We can't imagine an acreage without a tractor and it's front end loader,

 and a snow blower, picking up bales,  harrowing the garden,

weed control with a sprayer.  Nope! Just can't imagine life out here without
these pieces of equipment. 

snow blower and harrower attachments

Sprayer

front end bucket

Attachments to tractor sit back of the barn shed as we do not have a Quonset or covered

area.  Our rain water system is attached to the barn eavestrough into a white tank

then spills into large black water tub.

Colour!

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Pink Geranium

Those paddles we were not using.  We criss crossed them and stood them up here in our

back deck flower bed.

Our South view from the back deck

The garden is planted!

I prefer coloured photos but it was fun to change them.

cool pix (literally) on Victoria Day

Excited to pick up just a few petunias

to toughen up until planting weather. 

 Strength, power, vulnerability, beauty as only nature can start popping out for show.

 We want warmth but

we still have nature in its harshness.
 Instant promises of colour to contrast the green of spring

working hard to come through for us.  

so many shades of green for all of our companions

Rocky is aging at 23 years old.   The sway back is very prominent now.
You can see the shades of green in this landscape,

I'm excited!