Springtime!

This is an old picture of Cassandra and her bottle lamb Tiny.

Gotta use green for SPRINGTIME! It's spring! Now, we don't have the gorgeous flowers that my cousin Vanessa has in Arkansas. In fact, the trees are just budding out and we had snow just a couple weeks ago. But hey, it was 70 degrees today! The robins are taking over the world! Well, in my yard anyway. We have 3 new baby kitties in the calf hut outside, and a lot of really fat waddling mama cats to go. The other night nobody had brought in the mail, so about 8pm, after the rain had stopped, I walked out to the road to get it. The smell of fresh rain and nightcrawlers was definitely a Spring smell. Yesterday my husband started planting corn. He was one tired "pup" when he came in last night. He got rather out of shape over the winter and it is wearing him out carrying and emptying all those heavy bags of seed corn into the planter. They are talking more rain this weekend, so the rush is on to get the seed into the ground first.

Several years ago, I wrote a poem and called it Springtime In The Country. I'll share it with you.

Springtime In The Country by Linda Tiemessen

The sun is brightly shining,
The sky is blue and clear.
The birds are sweetly singing,
Butterflies flutter near.
A kite is soaring brightly
Dancing in the breeze.
Newborn lambs come skipping
To rub against my knees.
Mother duck quacks sharply
As her parade she guides.
Both the cow and mama cat
Have babies at their sides.
The new colt in the pasture
Kicks up its heels in joy.
The neighbors down the road
Have a brand new baby boy.
It's Springtime in the country;
The fields are newly sown.
I'm surrounded by more treasures
Than most have ever known.