--I took a trip to visit my mother with my sister. During the visit we got a chance to spend some time with friends who raise goats. When not during their climbing and jumping hijinks, goats like to be petted just like any other animal.
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| My goat friend sticking her nose through the fence looking for some petting. |
--Ward and I spent an afternoon exploring the neighborhood. It turns out that Ward's ancestors had a large farm not far from our house. There are even roads named after them. His grandmother did some research years ago that found out that much of her mother's family was born close to here, but Ward did not remember anything about it. It was fun to discover a family connection to our new area. I may have to stop calling it new soon. We've been here over a year.
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| It was pretty fun to find these intersecting road signs because Ward's Great Grandmother Gillis married Mr. Perry, his great grandfather. |
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| There are still several large farms in the area. |
--And speaking of Ward, he had surgery on his wrist this week and is going to be on light duty for a while.
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| Ward decided that his light duty should involve working a puzzle. |
--As you know, we got new windows last week. Now we have to do some painting and cleaning around them, but they look much better already.
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| A picture of one our old windows that seems to give a new meaning to "picture window". |
--Overall the weather is definitely warming and the yard is responding to this. Birds are singing and leaves are emerging. We're not out of the woods yet as far as snow and cold weather go, but it's been nice to have some warmer days sprinkled in here and there.
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| A few forsythia are starting to bud. They will probably freeze, but I give them credit for trying. |
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| The crocus I planted last fall are coming up. Yea! |
I guess if you fill in the rest of the month with all the regular things like work, grocery shopping, and taxes (how could I forget tax prep?) maybe that's enough to fill February. Tomorrow we get a fresh new month to fill up. It's great how that keeps happening. :)
