Farm Life

Well, it is a sad day on the Hag Ranch as one of our very first animals to arrive has died. She was our banty hen named Blondie. She was a mama to most of the young chicks as they were growing up. But, that is the way of life. We buried her in the back pasture.

Ice?!

one inch thick on dog bowl

one and one half inches thick on horse trough

Early January brought some colder than normal weather for us southern Texans - it was in the 20's(!!!) at night for 4 nights in a row. So the ice was pretty cool looking - but the pictures don't capture the reality, oh well.
Now we are all wishing for at least slightly warmer weather - at least something enjoyable. :)

Christmas!

Kayla's long-awaited new belt :)

my stocking!

Bret's new gloves from his girls

Kayla's gift to Alissa

Alissa's gift to Erica

Is there an ipod to go with that?

Alissa's gift to Kayla

Kayla's gift to Erica - she made the calendar with pictures from our computer! very cool!

Erica's gift to Alissa

rain coat for Lamar! the scarf and hat are fabulous!

Kayla's bookmark for me, she designed & cross-stitched it! :)

Erica & Alissa got me a new cool wallet!

well, there's that ipod! :)

New boots?? really?

Ready to go!

Merry Christmas to all! It was fun to celebrate the birth of Christ with gifts for one another. There were other gifts - but no more pictures! Kayla made Bret a CD of piano music she played. We were listening to it for the rest of the morning. We had a slow day because we left the next day for North Texas and Arkansas for a funeral and then to celebrate & visit friends. Funny, our Christmas dinner was soup - but that's okay because we were with family and everything is better with the ones you love. Hope everyone had a wonderful celebration!