The Maybrook

 

The Maybrook has more water now!

 

 

You can see it has more water in it today. I couldn't decide which picture I liked better? Which one is your favorite?

The Maybrook and Backyard Flowers

 

 

 

This is our Maybrook in the backyard. It is the overflow ditch that runs when there is alot of water coming down from Maple Mountain in the spring. It just barely started running. Someyears it doesn't run at all, but it has run the last three or four years. So far this isn't much water, it hasn't really warmed up yet. This is probably because we had almost an inch of rain yesterday. The other pictures are the lilacs and cherry blossoms, plus the cute flowers my dd got for her flowerbed.

Rat Tail Cactus

 

 

 

Several years ago my mom gave me this cactus plant. It has grown too big for the pot, and likes being root bound because it has given me a bounty of blossoms this spring. I neglect it woefully, but wanted to share it's beauty!

Merry Christmas!

This is just one of the beautiful pictures my friend Brekke took of little George when he was two weeks old. If you want to see the rest go to Brekke's blog at http://feltphotography.wordpress.com/
I have so enjoyed the pictures, my daughter made amazing Christmas Cards and Thank You cards with them, and we think Brekke's the greatest!
This Merry Christmas is day late, because tomorrow my family is opening gifts, so this is not quite, but sort of, Christmas Eve for us. We are all separated due to circumstance this year, my husband is with his parents this week and our prayers are with my husbands father, who is in ICU in Missoula MT and we are praying that all will be well with him.
Enjoy your Christmas, ours is snowy here in Mapleton UT, over a foot in my driveway this morning. Even the mail carrier got stuck in front of our house today! I brought her a shovel and shoveled a path in front of her, and eventually between the two of us we got her out. I am so grateful my eldest son shoveled my driveway this afternoon, it took him three hours...of steady shoveling with only one break. Yay for strong men!
Have a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

Grandbaby Boy has arrived!

I have become a grandma times two! Whoohoo! My new little boy arrived at 9:12 am on Saturday after a long and hard labor. He's a cutey and very bright and alert! 8 pounds 7 ounces and 20 inches long! No pictures to post, sorry about that, you will have to go find his parents and see if they will let you look. But I just wanted to tell you that Baby George's cousin is here and seems a pretty healthy little boy!

George Douglas Putnam

Here he is, our new precious grandbaby. He was born last night, November 27, 2008 at 12:52am. 7 lbs. 2oz, he's 20 inches long. Isn't he something? And me with no sleep at all, well maybe twenty minutes. His mom, our daughter Lindsay did great with an amazing four hour labor, and he was born with a knot in his cord, so he's a little miracle boy scout! We have so much to be thankful for today, Happy Thanksgiving!

Garden Eating Deer

These are the deer that keep coming back to visit, each day, several times a day. I really should work on getting a better picture of them. There are three, two bucks and a doe. You can only see two here, the other one is over eating the apricots. They pretty much eat all the fruit before it gets ripe, and as it falls off the trees. They also break the branches and eat them too. They live in our neighbor's backyard pretty much full time . Pretty soon I will name them...any ideas?