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The return of the Huckleberry Hounds

Category: misc. rambling | Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:29 pm

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Some of you may remember this story from before I restarted my blog. For the new members and to refresh the memories of the older members I'll retell the story of the Huckleberry Hounds.
Here's the pic of the hounds:

Sadly Bert is not a member any longer. I sure do miss that boy! :(
Ok now here is the story of the Huckleberry Hounds:
When we were clearing our property to have our house moved in we found a huckleberry tree among the grown up brush. I love huckleberries! We decided the tree would definitely stay. A few years ago I noticed our dogs out by the tree scrounging around. I walked out to the tree and realized they were eating the ripe huckleberries that had fallen to the ground!:) It's the funniest thing to watch them, so that is how they received the name of the Huckleberry Hounds!:)I go out and pick handfuls and feed them to my dogs and they love it. This year I had to clear around the tree because when we mowed we would leave some of the growth around the tree for bunnies and birds to hide in but this year I cleared all that out because it had gotten way out of hand. With all of it cleared out the dogs have plenty of room this year to enjoy the berries. They are in hog heaven,ahem... I mean doggie heaven! LOL


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My,my it's been awhile...

Category: misc. rambling | Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:22 am

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Hey everyone!! I know it's been too long since I've been on the Stew!! Shame on me I'm a bad member! :(
I see there are a lot of new members here!! Congrats to the Stew and our friendly little gnome leader!! :)
A lot has happened since I last visited!I'm a Grandma again, well actually Maw-Maw as first grandbaby Evan says (and you know he is the boss around here now!!hehe). Our newest member is Seth O'Bryan Roark and what a sweetie he is!!! It doesn't look like the Irish will be coming out of him as much as his big bubba Evan!! He has very dark hair instead of red!!
Meet our little Seth

This is me with both my grandbabies. I look so weird in this picture.As usual I was talking and they snapped the pic!! haha!!

Evan is running around all over the place now!! I'm very proud of my family!! :)
Alan (my youngest) is now a Sophomore in High School!! He will be staying home from school today to go see the doctor! He is running a temp of 104!:( I think he has the virus Evan had last week. My day will be spent as nursemaid!! I do hope he feels better soon!!!
I'm sad that all my kids are growing up!! Soon I will be an empty nester, but it won't be very empty with the grandkids around!!hehe!!
My garden has been pretty neglected lately due to my health! I do get out and water and that is about it for now. I still have lots of kidney stones that keep me in lots of pain quite regularly. I need to find my gardening motivation again!! I think I really need to visit the Stew more often and that will surely get the gardening bug going strong again for me. Maybe by Spring I'll be ready for the planting season!!


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My grandchildren!

Category: my family | Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:45 pm

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Just wanted to let everyone know we now know the gender and exact due date of our second grandchild! It's another boy!:D David and Rachel really wanted another boy.:) The new due date is now September 30th. Rachel is really starting to show now too. They moved into a home of their own last month. They live in a garage apartment. It has 2 bedrooms. It is really cute.
Evan has also grown so much. He brings so much joy to his Grandpa and Grandma!:D He is already starting to pull himself up on the couch and tries to walk. He is everywhere! It is soooo funny to watch him crawl. He doesn't crawl on his hands and knees the normal way, he gets on his hands and knees and then throws his body forward onto his belly and does this over and over until he gets where he wants to go! It's hilarious!
Here's Evan with his Grandpa


See! I told you he has gotten so big! Oh,I almost forgot to tell ya'll, he is saying Mama and Daddy now too! Isn't he the cutest?

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Just an update

Category: my garden | Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:42 am

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Well everything is growing and doing well in my gardens! I haven't done a whole lot in my gardens this year. I've been doing alot of scrapbooking and staying indoors since I've not been feeling well lately. As you can tell this year I've kinda gotten hung up on vines!!:) I have 4 clematis(2 blue and 2 pink), corkscrew vine, passion vine, gloriosa lily, wisteria, cardinal vine, cup and saucer vine, honeysuckle, moon vine( I have white ones and lavendar ones)heavenly potato vine and of course morning glories.
My blanket flowers are doing great!


I'm growing a type of Zinna I've never grown before this year. Peppermint Stick is the name if I recall rightly.

I have another one blooming now that is white with red stripes. They are really pretty, the photo does not do them justice!
This is my lavendar lantana. I have a little shephard's hook with a windchime hanging on it. Callie runs by it and hits it with her paw to make it make noise!hehe

Here's a few more of Callie being a silly willy girl!!


This is my new ice plant. It has green and white leaves and it's blooms are small and purple. It is a eye pleasing combination.

Our veggie garden is doing good although we have not weeded it at all this year:( It really needs to be weeded as the weeds are out growing the plants. It is not like us to neglect our gardens but this year has not left us very healthy! We did dig our potatoes last weekend and our plants produced 30 pounds!! Which we thought was very excellent since we only planted the eyes of 3 pounds of starter potatoes! Our squash are starting to produce and I can't wait to have a big helping of squash cooked with lots of butter and sugar! Yummy!! Or fried would be nice too! We also have corn growing and our green beans are starting to bloom. The collard and mustard greens need to be picked. I'm not too big on greens but hubby loves them so I'll cook a batch for him soon!! We also have okra, cantaloupe and watermelon growing. The snow killed all but one of our cucumber vines but hopefully the one will produce a few. Well that's about all I have to update for now.

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Rest in Peace my little Bertie Boy!!

Category: our animals | Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 4:22 pm

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Yesterday was a very bad day for my family!! We lost our dear furry friend and companion Bert!!:( He was like a family member and I can't believe he is gone!! I tried to prepare myself for this day because we knew it would be soon, but you really can't prepare for this kind of loss!! I just lost my baby girl Bebe just a few months ago, so it is double hard this time!! Bailey and Duke are very depressed today also! I hope they will be ok! They won't play or eat even!!
We got Bert from friends of ours in 1995. He was about 11 months old. Our friends worked during the day and had to leave him alone, he chewed a few too many things and Gale told David either the dog goes or I do!! Well that's how we ended up with the great fellow!! He never chewed up anything of ours, but I don't work and I was able to be right with him!! John worked with him and trained him to be a bird dog! He went along with John on many duck hunting expeditions and was a great bird dog! He loved to ride in the back of John's truck!! He was your typical loveable Chocolate Lab!! He filled many of our days with laughter due to his cute little antics!! He lived his life with lots of love and will be missed greatly!! Rest in peace my dear friend!!


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Peguin the Hermit Crab

Category: our animals | Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:24 pm

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This is Peguin,Alan's hermit crab. I have no idea where Alan came up with Peguin for his name, leave it to a teenager!teehehe!!! His shell is painted blue with skulls and lightening strikes drawn on it. He is pretty cool looking!


Be very careful with hermit crabs! Although they seem harmless, they have claws that pinch and can reek havoc on your fingers! This happened while I was trying to get his photo. Guess he doesn't like to be photographed!lol! My finger has been cleaned and bandaged now!! OUCH!!!

To take care of him daily we have to make sure he has 2 little bowls of water- one freshwater and one saltwater. We have to add a little sponge to each bowl to add humidity to the air of his home. We feed him several hermit crab food pellets along with some dehydrated fruit that we add a little water to, to rehydrate it. We have to spray his sand and soil with freshwater in a mister bottle daily to help keep up the humidity also. We have to also make sure he has another shell that is bigger than his current one in his home because as he grows he will emerge from his current residence and shed his outer shell grow any lost claws back and then move into the larger shell.
Well as you can guess Mom does most of the daily routine and Alan gets to say Hey he is mine!!LOL!!
You have now had your animal nature lesson for the day!lol!!

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@>------Welcome to my garden! ------<@

Category: my garden | Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:15 pm

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Things are really starting to take off in my gardens!Luckily the snow we had a couple of weeks ago didn't harm many plants. Snow in April in Texas? Weird I tell you!!:) We had a blast, it never snows here!!:D

Well enjoy the look around my gardens!!

Blanket flowers and Blue Bonnets(gotta have Blue Bonnets in Texas!!:D)

My Clematis is blooming! Something has found a couple of it's petals very tasty!:(

The Blanket Flowers are doing very good as usual. They never stopped blooming! These are the same plants that were growing last year! Normally they die back every Winter!

The Blue Salvia is looking great as my ceramic duck serves as a look out!

Callie had made my little wishing well her napping spot before I planted the double Petunias in it! Luckily she has found a new place to nap!:)

The double Petunias planted in the wishing well.

Can you see the little bat's face?

Hope you have enjoyed!!


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Welcome to my blog again!!

Category: misc. rambling | Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:53 pm

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Ok for those of you that have been here awhile you all know I had a blog here before but deleted it! I regret doing so, but now I can start fresh for the 2007 growing season. So here I go!
Welcome to my blog!
As I stated before some of you already know all I'm going to add to this entry so please bear with me!:)

I'm married and we have 3 sons. They are 22,17 and 15. Our 15 year old is our only child left at home! He is a freshmen in high school and skateboarding is his life! Our 17 year old lives with my Dad, who lives right down the road from us. He moved in with my Dad when my Mom passed away from ovarian cancer. He has helped my Dad tremendously just being there!! Since he is right down the road, it is like he still lives here!!Our 22 year old is married and has a 7 month old son and his wife is almost 4 months pregnant with their 2nd child. We are very blessed!!
This is my wonderful grandson Evan.

He has an amazing personality!(as do all my children!)
He is our little cutie patootie!!!:)

We have a zoo of animals around our place too! We have 3 dogs, 2 cats,2 parrots, a fish, a hermit crab, and 8 guinea chickens. We are supposed to have 3 cats but Stachie has been missing for about 3 weeks. He usually at least comes home to eat, but he hasn't even been doing that! I fear the worst!:(
My dogs Bert, Bailey and Duke have been mentioned several times here in Chance Security Systems!

http://www.gardenstew.com/viewtopic.php?t=1613&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=woof+posse

Use the above link and you will meet them!!:)

Well I guess this is enough for now!!
I hope you all enjoy my entries! I will try to keep from boring you all to tears!!:)

Happy Gardening
Julie


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