Feeling Groovy

Finally!  What a relief!  I am feeling groovy.  I haven't done too much in the last week, as I have made it a point to take it easy and thoroughly get over this nasty bug I have had.  My Mom and I went to see Brooklyn.  Ahhhh, we both loved it!  It was a lovely film.  I just adore the styles that they wore.  Really a good movie!!    On Sunday, Greg and I went to see Revenant.  SO good.  Not a feel good movie. But a good, good movie.  Again, the period was done so well.   Leo, you have an academy award coming, I am certain!
Yesterday the grand kids were all off for Martin Luther King Day.  The girls came over a few hours and we had a great baseball game going in the front yard!

They set their game up with no help from me at all.  I worked in the flower beds and watched and listened with a smile!  They used trees as their bases, and took turns pitching to each other.  Soon, Christopher next door came over to play with them.  Oh Clairey, I do believe you struck Christopher out!!

Here is a great action shot!

And after much debate on the play, Gramma declared the runner was out!

"Home run Hannah" coming in for the score!

What fun they had!  And what fun for me to watch them play.  It sure brought back some memories from when my brothers and I, along with the neighborhood kids, would turn the end of our culdesac into a baseball field.  We would play for hours!!!
Look how brown and drab everything looks!  Sure does look like winter!
The other morning when I got up, it was really foggy.  I thought it looked so pretty.

On Sunday, Greg and I went out to the grove and picked a big wagon full of fruit.  The oranges are so good this year.  I think I may say that every year though!

Right now we have navel oranges, pink grapefruit, yellow grapefruit, lemons and avocados that are ready for harvest. 

There is Geeps, loading up his bag with oranges.

We only have two lemon trees, but they are both loaded!

The "girls" have really worked over this load of mulch by the garden!  I believe that's Big Red there on the right, just getting the start of a Cock-a-doodle-doo off!

He really is a beautiful creature!  I hope we can keep him!  We have researched purchasing an incubator, and hope to hatch some of our chickies!!  The photo below is blurry, but I love how he has his hackles up and is in full crow.

This Spring we will doing some improvement to the existing coop.  It has served us well for the past 5 or 6 years though.

When we took our pool fence down, we used that to make a new enclosure, or run, if you will.  It is quite spacious for them.  When I collect eggs around 1:00 or so, I let them all out, to have free range of the property. 

That's Rebbie up there on the roof.  Her name is Rebel. She refuses to roost in the coop, but rather she climbs atop coop, then to a limb on the avocado tree above.  Now she has another one of the young girls doing it with her.  That small cage on top is a cage I use if ever I have a sick chick and have to cull her from the flock.  The raft is on the roof to prevent a leak we have in the roof from dripping over the roosts.  The white stick is a herding stick I use if I ever have to get them all gathered up quickly, and put back into the safety of their enclosed yard.  It works very well.
Yesterday I did my Valentine decorating.......ready?

I am working on a little wall quilt right now.  I have a 12 month series called Button Up's, and have had these patterns for years, and only done Oct-Dec.  I am going to try to get them all done!  This is January, so I had better hurry up!

While cutting these pieces out at my cutting table on Sunday, I reached behind me to pick something up, and the stool went straight out from underneath me, and I landed on top in a heap!  OUCH!

I need to go find another chair for my cutting table, now that I am used to sitting while there. 
I have an entire day of freedom, and have no idea what I am going to do with it!  Thrifting?  Movies?  Clean house?  Nah....scratch that last one.  This is too good to waste on a cleaning! 
I hope whatever you are doing, and wherever you are, that life is good.
See you soon.
XO  Kris