"Mama, Everything is New"

Well, isn't it? Doesn't spring just keep coming year after year and we're astonished every time? The little ones and I are exclaiming on every corner of the property about the bloomingness of it all.

February went out and March came in with lightning, wind, hail and tornadoes. And cloud shows.


June, is that you? March got so warm, for so many days, that we couldn't be sure..

Here are the 7 new chicks. Naming debates have begun. "Name them all Dave," says one. "How about Nick, Sally and Shelly?" says another. "Mom, which one is yours?" For one thing, they're all supposedly pullets; for another, I just can't get Sally Mae, Slim, Loper, Hank, Drover and Pete out of my head. We've been on a Hank the Cowdog kick. And another thing--five of them look identical. How about we name them all "Egg?" By the way, this is the two-room cardboard house the kids made them in art class. The house got named "The Cozy Cone." All that loving care, and the chicks outgrew it in a week anyhow. But that's part of the miracle of spring.


Here are some new-to-us little gals that moved in recently. Looking out over the treeless plain above my morning coffee, I shake my head and think, "Am I seeing things?" Picturesque as they are, I vote we don't name them this time. K?


And it wouldn't be spring in kid land without PROGRAMS. I also have to shake the cobwebs off my eyes at this little church family. Am I seeing things? So much out here hasn't changed since the one-room school house days.

So go get a little dirt under your fingernails, already!