Photos
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- Hazel and LeAnn (April 2011)
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- Crocus Spring 2011
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- Crocus Spring 2011
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- Crocus Spring 2011
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- Crocus Spring 2011
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- Crocus Spring 2011
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- I am beginning to wonder if I will ever see green leaves and Rugosa roses on my rose bush (March 23, 2011).
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- Even the big pine tree on the north side of the yard was weighted down with snow. (March 23, 2011)
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- The mound of snow in the picture was much bigger, but thanks to warmer temperatures before the snow of March 23, 2011, about half of the pile had melted.
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- One day it was starting to look like spring, the next day it was not. (Blizzard March 23, 2011).)
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- The little lilac in the west side yard was covered with snow, too, March 23, 2011.
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- Another pine tree by the driveway was almost bent to the ground with snow after the storm March 23, 2011.
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- Because of the heavy snow March 23, 2011, a jack pine fell across the road. When the patrolman plowed snow, he pushed it across our driveway.
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- The pine tree and the small cedar tree and the hen house and the chicken run were all covered with snow after the blizzard March 23, 2011. The chickens didn't know *what* to make of it all. . .
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- Bird feeder in our east side yard after the March 23, 2011, blizzard.
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- Pixie loves to rub her face and her sides in all of the fluffy snow we've been getting this winter. (Feb 2011)
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- My newest great niece, Isabella Mae. She was born in June. (January 2011)
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- My great nieces and nephews at our Christmas party on January 16, 2011 (from left): Alex, Trent, Asher, Sam, Evelyn, Eli and baby Isabella in the front.
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- My great nephew Alex is 3. He is learning how to sing songs -- and will not hesitate to tell his mom (who admits she can't sing) that she is "not singing it right." (January 2011)
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- My great niece Evelyn is 3. When she smiles or giggles, her whole face lights up. (January 2011)
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- My great nephew Asher is one year old. He has recently learned how to give kisses and is very good at it. What a little charmer! (January 2011)
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- My great nephew Sam is 2 years old. He likes trains. In this picture, he has a tiny chainsaw. . .
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- My great-nephew Trent will turn one year old in March. At Christmas on January 16, 2011, at Norton Church, he thought Randy was a suspicious character lurking around with the camera.
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- Tom Sawyer revealed his name by his adventuresome nature. (December 2010)
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- If you look closely, you can sort of see the tufts on Roberta's ears. (December 2010)
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- My 10-year-old orange tom, Gilligan, is bemused by the kittens. (December 2010)
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- Julia, who was the tiniest of the kittens when we brought them in the house, has now caught up with the others. (December 2010)
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- This little tom, who has not revealed his name, likes my big orange tom Gilligan. (December 2010)
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- Lunch time (four weeks old) in the middle of the plate. (Fall 2010)
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- "Pretty little girl" on the books at 5 weeks old. (Fall 2010)
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- After my six babies have some formula, they like to sleep in my lap for a while (Fall 2010).
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- Kittens at four weeks old liked to help Randy with the computer when he sat with them.
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- All those little striped faces sound asleep in the rocking chair make me smile. When they
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- Tuxedo Tom and his sisters are always interested in what I am doing. In this photo, Tux jumped up on the rock table to observe what I was up to. (October 2010) Tuxedo Tom has a deep, rumbling purr, even though he is not quite six months old. (October 2010)
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- The trees across the road turn brilliant reds and yellows and oranges during the fall. It won't be long before the leaves are gone and the frost is replaced with snow. (October 2010)
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- Before the sun came up all of the way, white frost blanketed Rural Route 2 one October morning. My old horse, Kajun, was pacing back and forth by the fence, waiting for his breakfast. (October 2010)
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- Even the little maple trees had turned brilliant colors on a cold October morning (2010).
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- Early on an October morning at Rural Route 2 in 2010, the box elder tree by the garden looked ghostly after it had lost all of its leaves.
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- The Morning Glories and Rugosa Roses were still blooming at the end of September. It won't be long before the flowers are all gone.
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- My long-haired orange kitty cat, Mary Anne, likes to sit on the bench beside the chicken run. She causes quite a stir among the chickens. They don't seem to mind the other cats.
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- Our Buff Orpington, Laverne, allows herself to be petted. (September 2010)
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- Laverne and Shirley, our Buff Orpingtons, started laying eggs in August of 2010.
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- Our Americauna chicken, Gingersnap, is molting and looks dreadful. She must not have wanted her picture taken because she kept running back into the hen house.
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- Gingersnap, our Americauna chicken, lays lovely blue-green eggs. They are much larger than Laverne and Shirley's eggs. Laverne and Shirley are Buff Orpingtons, but they're still really just pullets
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- Gingersnap is molting and she looks pathetic. (September 2010) If you look closely, though, you can see the feathers starting to grow back in on her back.
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- Long John Silver (August 2010)
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- "She thinks if she crouches down, I'll put my head down, too. Well, I guess I will. . ." says Isabelle (July 2010)
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- "This is ridiculous. How many pictures does she need?" Isabelle wonders. (July 2010)
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- "This is my best side. If I perk one ear, it makes me look contemplative," Isabelle says. (July 2010)
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- "Maybe if I look pathetic enough, she will give me my breakfast," Isabelle says. (July 2010)
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- "I can't believe it. I'm waiting for my breakfast, and all she can do is take pictures? Yes, I know I'm handsome. I might be nearly 30, but I'm still handsome. . ." Kajun says. (July 2010)
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- There's that thing again. Maybe if we watch it and don't move, it will come closer. . .(July 2010)
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- I am sooooooooooo comfortable in the tractor bucket. (July 2010)
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- Hey! Something's moving! Can we catch it? (July 2010)
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- Peek-a-boo! (July 2010)
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- What's that down there? (July 2010)
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- Are you going to bring breakfast or what? (July 2010)
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- The Tuxedo Tom from the 2010 litter of kittens.
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- The little tortoishell from the 2010 litter of kittens.
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- Two of the gray calicoes from the 2010 kitten litter.
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- My little tabby, Bobby Cat, likes to help me play the piano. She spends much of her time outside in the summer and inside during the winter. (July 2010)
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- Our little red hen house is built on an old boat trailer so we can move it when we want to. The run also has a set of rigged-up wheels so we can move that too. (July 2010)
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- The old fashioned day lilies are nearly done blooming by July 7. Usually they are only getting started around the Fourth of July. (July 2010)
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- The Tiger Lilies I ordered from the grand-daughter of a neighbor who was selling them to raise money for her school are breathtaking. (July 2010)
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- Our little black kitty cat, Dora, loves to sleep on shoulders. (July 2010)
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- I planted some new rose bushes on the bank where the power company destroyed my trees last year. They add nice bright spots of color, but plants have wicked thorns. (July 2010)
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- The galvanized tub of purple petunias and white petunias sitting on a large sandstone rock near the porch are lovely this year. (July 2010)
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- The Candy Stripe petunias have a variety of patterns, I am surprised to see. (July 2010)
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- My red tabby, Gilligan, likes to help whenever I am weeding in the garden or doing anything around the yard. (July 2010)
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- Fall leaves we saw on a walk about a mile from our house.
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- A pine plantation about a mile up the road from our house.
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- A Morning Glory here at Rural Route 2.
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- I believe this is the proper way for me to be photographed -- with as little of me showing as possible! Well, hey, at least the cookie sheet is clean and shiny. . .
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- My big brother, Ingman, who is 21 years older than me, helped me open my first Christmas present in December 1958.
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- From the time I was a very little girl, I liked to be out in the barn with Dad at milking time.
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- Thanksgiving 1958 -- From left, my mother, Norma, father, Roy, brother, Ingman, Uncle Sigurd and Aunt Othillia. I am in the baby buggy.
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- A January sunset here at Rural Route 2 in 2009.
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- My great-niece, Evelyn, Easter 2008. (Such a face!)
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- Randy and my great-nephew, Alexander Matthew, Easter 2008.
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- My great-nephew, Eli Roy, Easter 2008.
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- My Shetland Sheepdog, Pixie, after a snowstorm in April 2008.
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- The ridges around our house in west central Wisconsin were covered with snow after a storm in April 2008.
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- The sun shining through the "big pines" across the road from our driveway after a snowstorm in April 2008.
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- Snow in April in 2008 weighted down the pine trees and the small cedar in our yard.
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- Shirley is a youngster and will not start laying eggs until this fall. (July 2010)
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- Laverne is the one in front. She is a little darker. Shirley is the lighter one. They seem to have more of an affinity for people than the other chickens. (July 2010)
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- Our big black tom cat, Rocky, likes to watch the chickens. I hand-raised him and his sister, Juliette, from newborns. (July 2010)
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- Bluebell is a Hamburg. We named her Bluebell because she has blue ear patches. (July 2010)
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- Betty White (July 2010)
Betty White (July 2010) is one of our three (three!) laying hens. She is the flock leader and was named because of her white ear patches.
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- A blue moon rose here at Rural Route 2 on New Year's Eve -- the last moonrise of 2009.
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- The last sunset of 2009 filled the sky with pink and magenta and lavender.
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- My great nephew Sam Bradley decided he wanted to taste the dinosaur we had given him for Christmas here at Rural Route 2 on January 2, 2010.
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