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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
More kids!
We had four more kids born yesterday. There are so many now they look like popcorn popping on the pasture! When baby goats are born, they are almost instantly in motion, and one of their favorite activities is hopping, which is why they look like popcorn popping.
For Christmas this past year, my husband gave me two Longhorns. Redneck Belle (and, no, I did not name her!) is pregnant and due to calf in July. The second is Beau, a bull calf who recently lost is manhood to the vet's knife. Bulls are not fun to have around, as they tend to tear up fences and whatever/whoever else gets in their way, which is why we had Beau castrated. My husband refers to the two Longhorns as our pasture ornaments, as they serve no purpose other than they are nice to look at. :)
I have a wildflower meadow that I planted for my niece's wedding and it is currently in full bloom. Bluebonnets, poppies and daisies are the prominent flowers right now, but painbrush and others will soon join the display. I have a perfect view of the meadow from my office and I love looking out my French doors and seeing all that color in bloom!
One of my pet peeves is litter. Because we live in the country, we get more than our fair share of litter on our roadside. Beer cans, cigarette packages, fast food sacks, old tires . . .whatever people don't want, they toss out on our road. I finally decided that I'd had enough, and I organized a "Trash Off", which was in conjunction with the Keep Texas Beautiful organization. In one morning, my neighbors and I picked up 416 pounds of garbage off our road! I walk two miles every morning and two days after the "Trash Off" I counted 28 NEW beer cans on our roadside. Instead of being mad, I decided to take advantage of the situation. I now carry a trash bag with me on my walks and I'm saving all the aluminum cans to recyle. With the money I get for the cans, I'm going to buy wildflower seeds and plant them along our roadside. So there, litterers! I'm turning your trash into flowers!!!
Peggy
posted by Peggy Moreland at 9:01 AM
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6 Comments:
Playground Monitor said...
Kids, kids and more kids! Sounds like you have your hands busy. And I just love Redneck Belle's name. Of course, I'm from Alabama. *g*
I love your idea about recycling the cans and buying wildflower seeds. I just love seeing a field of wildflowers. I'm trying to convince the DH to let me plant the back of our yard along the wood fence with a wildflower mix. Not succeeding yet, but I CAN be persistent. *g*
Marilyn
3:38 PM
christa said...
Hopefully the wildflowers will be a deterent for some of the trash throwers.
We learner in landscape and horticulture class that plantings are a good way to break up the monotomy of a fence or wall etc.
5:55 PM
Peggy Moreland said...
Marilyn,
Keep hounding your husband! Wildflowers don't require as much water as other plants, they reseed themselves, thus making planting new plants a thing of the past, so go for the money-saving angle. Most men like saving money!
Peggy
7:31 AM
Peggy Moreland said...
Christa,
I'm hoping the wildflowers will be a deterent, too. Plus, they are beautiful to look at and make any area more appealing to wildlife---butterflies, birds, etc. I have a butterfly garden in my backyard and I thoroughly enjoy watching the butterflies and hummingbirds hover over the plants.
Peggy
7:34 AM
Bronwyn Jameson said...
Peggy, I love the popcorn/new kids analogy. I can just picture them popping all over your paddock! *g* And re the trash: our farm fronts a well-trafficked road and, like you, we got sick of everyone throwing their trash out along the roadside. So each year all our neighbors get together on Keep Australia Beautiful weekend and clean our piece of roadside. I do believe we're winning; each year there appears to be a little less garbage to pick up.
9:35 PM
Peggy Moreland said...
Bron,
I share your pain. We get so much litter dumped on us that we could start our own recycling business! Another problem we experience is unwanted pets and animals that people dump in the country. I can 'adopt' only so many animals, so many I have to shoo away. Within the city limits, they have animal control laws, but out in the country, we are stuck with the animals that are dumped here. Breaks my heart to see the starving cats and dogs walking around, looking for a new home.
Peggy
6:05 AM
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