BACKYARD 08~ Life of a backyard junkie~~

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Oh just thinking about how fun life 'can be' in a backyard ~~

~~Ryan~~

~~Carter~~

Ryan Carter's daddy when he was about the same age.. he looks alittle older not sure how old he was here forsure(:) bad bad mom ~

~~Carter chomping on pretzels~~

Backyard Fun

Carter with his little finger poking his chapstick~~

'his new chair'

Just exploring(:)

Me, Carter and Pill BUGS or Curl-ups ..we call them

update(:) Robin @ bittersweetpunkin said they call them Roley-Poleys..LOL

well they have mulltiple names I guess..

Curl-ups or pill bug

they are tiny about 1/4 inch

they curl up into a tight ball so cute.........LOL(:)

Whenever Carter my little grandson (14 months old now), and I go outback and sit in the flowerbed and look for curl-ups(the little bug that rolls itself into a ball) Its so fun to find them~~ they crawl up his tiny palm he gets so excited they don't bite so its a safe toy ..Ofcourse I taught him to be very careful with them -you know me I don't like to kill anything living(:) I used to do this same thing with his daddy when he was a tiny little one..

I suppose I would never eat meat if I saw the process ..ugh (:(

I have family stories of how my mother- in -law used to chop off the chickens heads an they did run around for a bit OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH UGH ~~double UGH!~~~~I sure wouldn't like that job .. She was a wonderful cook though delishious fried chicken,pies,etc

My garden '07'gourd stockpile~~

Where like to have me lemonade under the shade of the trees surrounding the deck..(:)
as cool a place as there is without going into the AC'd house...


The chicken in the flowerbed has some hens'n'chicks in it~~



The yellow chairs and table I got this year..
The groundcover all along the fence is wonderful comes back every year and hold back all weeds(:) A VERY good thing~~Weeding isn't a fun thing ..is it??



My garden is doing well as of early June~~ So far so good~~


The Japanese Maple is lace and huge it covers my kitchen window , adding some cool shade..



looking out my kitchen window~~

This tree is another keeper comes back every year bigger and better then the year before.. a green japanese maple~~it is airy enough that even though it blocks my Kitchen window I can still see through the lace leaves.. It gets really hot here in the summer(90-105) so any shade is a good shade~~(:)

One of my kitties enjoying a cool drink~~~