Thursday's Thoughts

O Golden Flower, Of Golden State!

California Poppies

Wordless Wednesday

Video ?

Nice day yesterday, cloudy and a little windy but not to cold.

Took some time and had coffee with my friend Carol and her

grand baby Seth. What a cutey and good baby too.

Then to work out in the orchard. We usually start irrigating

in May and if you remember we had to stake the trees last

fall, because of the heavy fruit. Well all those stakes have

to come out, kind of a "what gos up must come down' sort

of thing. The orchard needs to be mowed also and I don't

want to be running over them. OK, this brings me to the

video or in this case no video. I have my camera with me

all the time and it has a video setting on it. The wind was

blowing the grass around and I thought it would be really

cool to video it. Well there are 4 videos in my camera

but I can't get them to load to my computer?

So....if any of you camera, computer wizards out there can help.

HELP !!!

"55"

These Beautiful Roses showed up Thursday for my

birthday, from our girl in Sweden, Lise.

"55" Ya, most women don't tell their age but I've

earned every year. I like dragging it out

for as long as I can. I usually proclaim an entire week

as my birthday, but only managed two days this year.

I don't like surprises, "I like gifts" but mostly I just Like

having time to myself. I usually pick a project around

our placed to get done (or fixed). This year its cleaning

up were we park the over flow, looking good too.

Daughter Dawn and I took a half day Thursday and

went to Chico for lunch and window shopping. Then

some girl time, Dawn made us appointments for pedicures

at the 20-10 Solon and Spa. It was the best, they have

little Jacuzzi tubs for your feet. I'll I needed was a

reclining chair and I could have napped all afternoon.

"THANK YOU DAWN!"

Both the boys call me to wish me happy birthday and

I had numerous birthday wishes on face book. Thank

you every one, that was a "nice surprise". That night,

Dawn and Cory and JS and I went for pizza and beer.

Friday Mon and I and friend Patty went to one of our

favorite places Mendon's Nursery plant shopping,

and Mexican food for lunch. Thanks Mom, Great Day!

That after noon I planted what I had bought, if your going

to play you have to pay. Speaking of paying, I spent all of

Saturday cleaning house for Easter, "dusting and mopping"

Sunday was a nice easy day spent with family.

It was a great birthday and Easter, Thanks to all of you.

Pretty Picture Monday

"HAPPY EASTER"

"HAPPY EASTER FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS"

Sunday Stills, Wild Flowers

Wordless Wednesday

"Ode To Winter" or "Oh Crap! That's A Lot Of Snow"

Pretty Picture Monday

Farm Friend Friday

Spent yesterday cleaning, not the good spring cleaning

that my house needs, but got the big chunks. The old

barn is at the Daily ranch were we met for Cattlewomens.

It reminded me of Farm Friend Friday, that some of the

other bloggers are participation in . Photos of farming

and ranching life, so if you have a little time for

blog hopping, add it to you Fridays.

"Have A Great Weekend And I hope The Sun Is Shinning On You"

Thursday's Thoughts, The Past Two Weeks

I can't believe we've been home from Mexico for two weeks.

Our first weekend back JS got a call from a cabin neighbor.

The snow was so heavy that is was causing damage to his roof.

Zach, Cory, Dawn and extra son Jeff went up and

"shoveled" it off for him. They were a tired bunch.

We had a nice warm spell for awhile. JS did tractor work

around the place and I sprayed along the road and fence

lines. The USDA Bug Guys came and inspected the

orchards. We have a healthy amount of good bugs,

and a few leaf miners, to just keep and eye on.

Working at cleaning the yards, this is the Big dog Run,

all mowed. This use to be the kids sheep pin for 4-H.

Now it's Ranch Dogs run.

Got the yard between and house and the shop clean.

It even got hot enough for a dip in the pool.

The yard is really pretty now lots of thing in bloom.

This last Sunday all of JS's family got together for

his Mom and Dads 62ND Anniversary. JS and his dad

have several of these old cars that they started

buying when JS was in high school this is the last one

to be restored. Their is one for each of the grand kids.

"LUCKY DOGS"

It rained most of yesterday Wednesday, so the ground is wet.

I'm going to be a good girl and stay in the house and clean.

My trucks in the shop, little stuff, so I'm grounded.

"CowBelle of the Year"

Tuesday the Butte County Cattlewomen honored

Sarah DeForest as our "Cowbelle of the Year"

not only for what Sarah offers to our county unite,

but what she does for the cattle industry as a whole.

Sarah grew up in ranching in Northern California and

Southern Oregon. Her father Tom, worked for various

ranches while mom Kathy looked after their growing

herd of commercial cattle, plus Sarah and her sister

Becky. Both girls learned and help with all aspects

of ranching life. Sarah's mom was involved with the

Lake County Oregon CowBelles, so both girls grew up

going to Beef Promotions and Cattlemen's and

Cattlewomen's events.

Sarah, Kathy, Grandma Grace DeForest and Tom

While in high school Sarah became very involved with

FFA. (Future Farmer of America) She attended college

at Chico State University majoring in Agriculture.

A freshman honors student and became involved in the

Young Cattlemen's Association. Grandma Grace

encouraged Sarah to enter the Yuba-Sutter County

Cattlewomen "Beef Ambassador Contest", where

she went on to place fourth in the national contest

in San Antonio, Texas. This encouraged Sarah to continue

in public speaking and added Communication as a minor.

Upon graduation form Chico in 2000, Sarah was hired

by the California Beef Council. Fast forward, today she is

the Director of Development for the School of

Agriculture at Chico State University.

Sarah remains involved with her parent's cattle operation

in Adin, CA. and is currently the CA. State Beef

Ambassador Chairperson. Sarah DeForest is not only

a great ambassador and spokesperson for the beef

industry, but is one of the finest people you will ever meet.

Pretty Picture Monday

Sunday Stills, 4 points

West

North

East

South

Challenge, to stand in one place and take shots of the

4 points of the compass. We all have tendencies to

only look in one direction when we take photos.

For example sunsets, we never look behind us

to see how the sun light is shining on

objects such as trees, barns and so on.

I know I'm going to try it more often.

Arrr!

Everyday this ship sat out on the horizon, conjuring

up pirates, battles over treasures and maidens in

distress. Sometimes the sun would hit just right and

you could see the Jolly Rodger flying at the top of the

mass. At night after dark, completely outlined in

green lights it would glide into the harbor.

What a beautiful sight, perhaps the captain had

won the hart of the maiden on the high seas that day.

Then I found out if was the Booze Cruse.

Maidens in distress ?........most likely.

Yo Ho Ho and a Ship Full of Rum.

Thursday's Thoughts

The only thing that would make coming home

from vacation perfect, "Room Services" and

my tan to stop peeling off.

Moments in Mexicao