CAN IT BE...????

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.

~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard~

 

Can it be that March is upon us??  The month when lambs are born and lions roar?  Robins, blue birds, even our much anticipated purple Martin scout has visited and checked out the gourds we have hanging and waiting!  It's still cold here at AWESOME ASS ACRES, but I know it won't be long before the garden's plowed and vegetables are ready to can!  I'm always amazed at the changing of the seasons, but spring is my favorite.  It doesn't matter one's age, everyone still looks forward to the awakening of life that spring brings...baby animals of all types, tender new sprigs of grass, flowers that burst from buds, even sounds that happen no other time of the year!  

I hope you enjoy every minute of the "show" ahead...with the trials in our lives, it's such a pleasure to experience this gift of nature!

   

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

~Virgil A. Kraft~

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

~Mark Twain~

A LOOK AROUND AAA

The weather is beautiful here at AWESOME ASS ACRES! I can barely stand to stay inside and paint...Larry's prepping the garden spot and everything's bursting in buds, blooms or foliage! The lambs are doing so well...growing and now eating 3-4 times a day! This year we finally got to hang martin gourds...always wanted to, but we'd always wait too long, didn't have the time, the gourds, wondered about location...but, this year, THANKS to a wonderful, sweet friend, Elaine, we hung 12 and already have residents!! She had several that she was planning to use, but her property was too "woodsy", so she gave them to us!! Larry used a small cable and devised the perfect way to raise and lower them for cleaning and upkeep. They hang between the house and barn and the martins seem very happy here at AWESOME ASS ACRES!! Between them and our thriving guinea flock, we should be rid of alot of pesky insects during the hot weather coming up! We're planning on 2 garden spots for corn, squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans, okra, eggplant, watermelon, cantalope, beets and peas. Larry's keeping close watch on the Almanac to make sure he plants when the signs are right! We're both from families that really believe in going by the signs when doing anything on the farm...from digging the well, planting the garden, weaning livestock, to castrating livestock. Past generations have taught us and now, we're passing it on to our kids.