Hello Friday!!
Hello longer days!!
I know we still have a lot of winter like weather to endure….but there is a hint of what’s to come!
Like birds chirping outside the kitchen window, and daylight after 5 p.m.!
It’s been a good week here at Adoni Acres Family Farm!
How about for you all?
Our new puppy, Jax, had a little surgery a week and a half ago – we had him fixed.
Poor boy!
Jax came home from surgery wearing a cone on his head!
The vet said we could come back and get a cone if he bothered his stitches – and I said “No way! We will take one NOW!”
Jax has been around long enough that I just knew he would need it right away!
The first night he figured out how to get that cone OFF.
Seriously.
SO, we duct taped it together.
Then he figured out how to bend just right to get to those stitches.
Seriously.
SOOOO….I pretty much kept a close eye on him, and thankfully at night he could not bend that way with the cone on in his crate!
YES – we still LOVE this pup!!
This is the only photo I could find of him with the cone on!
Eliza drags him behind her with that toy rope all the time!
Yesterday we got this big ole farm house all shining so a realtor could come take a look!
It seems the first sign of me feeling better is that my eyes seem to see things that I do not see when I don’t feel well!
Like – WHAT IS ALL OF THIS?
Good grief.
I just don’t go down to that dungeon basement very much.
When we showed the realtor the basement, I have to say that it just struck me so vividly the history in this place we call home!
Just look at this basement wall!
That was built stone by stone in 1877!
CRAZY to think about!
Then it got me to thinking about the bricks on the main part of the house.
The outside walls are three feet thick of solid bricks.
They were laid brick by brick as well!
In 1877!
Isn’t that amazing?!
I have some plans to try to bring some life back to some of our things after we move.
We got this church pew off Craig’s List years ago for $100.
It is from a small country church in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Me and a can of Annie Sloan black chalk paint have a date with this beat up old thing!
Our snow is melting!
It is supposed to be above freezing during the day this whole week – so I bet all this snow will be gone quick.
Down in town there is hardly any snow!
We still have quite a bit though.
Every morning I pull up the front of Eliza’s hair.
With a tiny rubber band.
And every morning she asks me “Mama, can I pick the band aid?”
And every morning I say “You mean the rubber band? Sure, honey!”
And then we do it all over again the next morning!!
So much I never want to forget.
Just so it’s not lost on you either, just look at our sweet baby cuddling a doll.
That, folks, is healing!
When our sweet baby can nurture a doll.
It makes a sob catch in my throat.
You just have no idea.
I am hanging on SO tight – because I have been there and done this before – and my big kiddos looked like this JUST yesterday.
Since Jax made Fun Facts Friday, I thought I would give our other two pups a spot on here too!
Sadie is one very well trained dog.
No, I had not one thing to do with that!
She is Chad’s – and he has done AMAZING with her!
I cannot wait till spring when she can run the farm with the kids!
Sorry for the bad lighting the sun caused in this photo.
What am I saying?!
I am super happy that the sun did that!
First of all – it’s the SUN!
Second of all – it kind of made the messy boots behind Sadie a little blurry!
It seems Sadie is always chewing on a bone like she is here.
Zoe is our old pup.
She is 15 years old!
She is always freezing cold, so the kids make her a little warm spot.
Sweet girl.
She still loves to be loved!
I am sure you know what Friday means for me and my crew!
I have a GREAT crew!
Addie Mae took Eliza as her grocery helper today, and I thought Eliza was going to split in half she was SO excited!
My boys are working on some school we did not finish this week, and Tate is playing nicely.
I better get after my own Friday chores, because I have some grand babies coming over later and a date tonight with the most amazing man!!
Happy Friday, everyone!!!
