Cardi spa Birthday!

Close up of Luna in the pool.  Notice the chewed pool edge..yea, Luna has a thing for plastic!  Hose sprayer handles, a hose and anything else she can get into!  Gotta watch her but she is a puppy still.....  Her 1st birthday is today!  Happy birthday to her brothers and sister: Byron, Morgan, Paco and Alice!!  You are the last puppies I have had at Cornerstone.

Luna and her Mom, Nibbles.  Ah, ya think Luna came by her chewing plastic honestly?  Nibbles learned/outgrew the inappropriate chewing, so should Luna.

Peeker (age 10 1/2) in the pool with Luna.  Her Dad, Nickolas, supervising.

So, a family celebration.  I hope the rest of the litter has a great Birthday too!

Summer on the farm/rescued pup

Morning glories grow wild all around up here on Sand Mountain.  I've been encouraging the ones at the fence line.  Just lovely!

First bloom!  Pam says they were not planted in the proper sun area, but we are getting some that have the best sun starting to bloom.  We'll have to move them later and hope for a good transition for next year.

FIGS!  Sorry for the blur but I want to show how big they are this year.  That is a quarter in front for size comaparison.

Just some of the Cardis playing around.  DeeDee the oldest one looks to be playing the most in this scene. 

This is a rescue puppy with her new owner and a friend!  We found Dobbie in a bakery parking lot 2 weeks ago.  She was thin, wormie and alone.  I figured her age to be 8 weeks then.  Of course I took care of de-worming her, giving her a vaccine and high quality food.  With Pam's help I made up a flyer complete with an adorable photo and posted them at various places.  The lady holding her saw it at a pet shop in Guntersville, called and said, I have to have her!  So, happy ending for Dobbie.

First egg! First Blackberry Pie!

We have our first chicken egg!  And I made my first blackberry pie from blackberries I picked on our farm.  David and I had a slice after dinner-yum!  Yes David is here for a long visit.  We go to pick up Samuel in Hunstville today (I'm posting after midnight).  So we'll be together for a few days until they all drive together and go back to Kissimmee.  Hannah will fly back after a short visit there.

Pretty soon I hope to be able to announce a real and final retirement for David.

I hope you are all enjoying your summer!

Hunt Club Green & chickens

I just wanted to show how much my chickens are growing up.  They are only 5 months old.  I did send 3 Roosters to the neighbor which is good.  I have one nice rooster and 7 hens.  Just right.

 The dogs are good with them now.  This is Peeker, she never was a problem with the chickens.  I do have 2 cardis that are so intent on herding them...high drive...so I can't leave them with the chickens or they'd never be able to relax and just be chickens.  They'd be in a group all the time and not allowed to get away.

 Here are my newly painted shutters!!  I LOVE how they look now.  This is 'Hunt Club" green.  They were an off white and to me they just looked blah.  Now I think the new color looks classy.  Here are 3 views.

Happy Summer!

Visitors and yard time

We had visitors to see our cardis today!  This young man wanted to pose with some of our guys.  Pretty sweet.  I think they liked it!  First is Rio...

Next is Bubbles...

Then came Lily...

After our visitors left we went out and played.  Here is Peeker cooling off.

Luna was trying very hard to get someone to join her in frizbee chewing...

oh, come on!

       Luna and her Mom, Nibbles.  It was too hot to stay out  long.                                                                   

You all have a great Independence Day weekend!

New pics- Luna and Zsa

2 year old Zsa Zsa.  I bathed 3 of my guys today and asked Hannah to help me photograph these two.  I need some for the web site too, so these wil be a start.  I also have a lovely professionally done head shot of Zsa for the web site.  Thanks to Pat Sawtelle. 

9 month old Luna

Luna being her cute self.

cat places

All cat owners know that recycle boxes must be throughly inspected and enjoyed first.

Our neighbors Karen and Brendan gave us this cat tree.  Karen wanted to know if they are using it.  I should try to get a photo of them scratching on the posts and lying on top as well.  Yes, very grateful to have this cat tree.  The one we had, got used up and trashed before the move.