Remember this?

It has been fixed, or so the road department says. I'm not too sure.



After driving over it a few times it feels real soft. I don't know why they do such a halfway job on these roads. If they would just take the time to fix them right the first time they could probably forget about it for a while.



They pushed a great deal of rock to the side and almost into the creek. I can just see Jones right now as I try to get her to cross it. There is no way she will and you know what? There is no way I would even try to make her.

On another note our neighbors Mr and Mrs Cannon have sold all but 7 of their Texas Longhorn cattle. I'm gonna miss these guys.



But the ice storm we had in late January did it. It caused so much damage that had to be cleaned up. Mr and Mrs Cannon have had enough of it. They just couldn't keep up with the work anymore. Mrs Cannon cried when the guy came to get the cattle. She didn't want to let them go but she knew she had too.

Sometimes you do what you have to do. But it's ok. It always works out.

There is always something good

if you look hard enough. As much as I didn't want to get out of the bed yesterday morning it was truly worth it when I drove down the driveway and was able to see this.



There is just something about this time of the morning in the spring that is gorgeous.



And all I had to do was get out of bed to see it. I believe that is true for everything. No matter how hard it gets there is always someone somewhere worse off. That sentence has literally seen me through many hard times in my life. My mother taught me that.

Thanks Mom.

UGH!

Well, the fun's over. It's back to work for me today. Actually it wasn't that bad. Even though I did have a bit of trouble going to sleep last night. I was still on vacation time in my brain. When the alarm went off this morning I heard the birds chirping outside. What a welcoming way to wake up. We have a family of barn swallows building a nest right outside our front door. It will be interesting to see what happens when they have eggs and we walk outside. Hummmm.

I am hoping the weather keeps up like it has been. But I know that one day we will wake up and summer will be here overnight. It happens every year. But I tell ya what. I was looking through some pictures of our ice storm this year and I'm not going to complain about hot weather. Enough said about that!

Let's everyone had a great day and say.....let's smile at a stranger and see if we get that smile back.