Wednesday, May 16, 2007

'tis the season

...for this:

I love baseball season. It's my son's fourth year (if you count his two seasons of t-ball), and it's like a yearly rite of passage when that first game rolls around and all the parents come out of the woodwork to unload camp chairs from their vehicles, clean their camera lenses and chat up other parents they haven't seen for a while. Our team's first game was last week, and the kids looked so spiffy in their new uniforms. Kicked some Little League tail, too. :-) I must blog about my friend April's fingernails, which never cease to amaze me, and which I was admiring at the game. They're perfectly manicured, with tips that look like OPALS! And she even has horses, which is just inconTHIEVEable to me (movie reference pop quiz: Let's see who can identify the origin of that word the fastest). I need to do a photo comparison between April's nails and mine so you can get the full effect.

I'm putting the chicks (I guess I can officially call them pullets now) outside during the day, in a temporary pen. Angel is happy about this. They seem to bring out her latent livestock-guarding instincts. (heh. As if. You just know she's thinking, "Chicken. It's what's for dinner.")


Unfortunately, it's also weed season. This double-whammy, dandelion/foxtail combo is the current bane of my existence:
Fortunately, though, where there are weeds, there are also these (I don't know what they're called, but they're very delicate and paper-like):

And these wild Irises:

This is one of my favorite sights of all, come spring. No one shoes a horse like that husband of mine:

Now I gotta get back to work.


4 comments:

  1. YEAH! Go Pirates!! And, thanks to you, I DO have horses in my life, again! Great flower, er... weed, pics :-) And you do have a great horseshoer there, aren't cowboys the greatest eye candy? ;-)

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  2. Anonymous4:44 PM

    Princess Bride. Done. Got it. My fav. Wallace Smith, actor. Hah.

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  3. Anonymous5:51 PM

    Darn, she beat me by six minutes! That's one we own.

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  4. You gotta watch that Lorelei, M. She's got a serious trigger finger. :-)

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