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A Spring Day

When all you need is a kiddie pool, a blanket, and a few armfuls of pillows to have a happy day. Posted using Partiko Android...

Hey there!! I am alive!

Wow! I have been gone for quite a while from the Wide World of Steem! I am doing well. Finally on a good medication and getting therapy to get myself back on tr...

Fermenting chicken feed... Why bother?! 'Cause it's fantastic! Here's how:

I ferment my chickens' feed. Full disclosure here, fermented feed doesn't look very pretty. It's actually kinda gross-looking. &160; That's okay though. The ben...

Steemit Portrait Photography Contest Week 37 STARTS TODAY!!! 1st 2nd and 3rd place STEEM PRIZES!!!!

Week 37 Starts TODAY!!!! The theme is Creative Lighting and @razipelangi is the judge!!!!!!!! Interpret this how you will!!!! Lets see some CREATIVE LIGHTING!!!...

Walk with Me - Sometimes When You Wish for Rain... (Pics and Video)

...You actually get some! We had a surprise pop-up thunderstorm last week that instantly cooled us off from the 90's to the 70's! It was pretty sweet. https://y...

Macrophotography - Finding Beautiful Things to Photograph

Viola I like to walk around the yard with my camera (actually it's my smartphone camera) and grab photos of anything that catches my eye. Sometimes I'm lucky an...

Floating the Jacks Fork River - My First Float in Over a Year

Last week I was invited by my two oldest and bestest friends, @melodyrussell and our friend TC, to float a small section of the Jacks Fork. All of our men were ...

Tree Tuesday - Ozark Trees - Wild Black Cherry

Prunus serotina This common Ozark understory tree is the Wild Black Cherry. It is a medium to large tree with a straight trunk and a round spreading crown. This...

The New Herb Garden all Planted

Row 7 is the bottom of the photo… On Sunday I finished planting the New Herb garden. There’s 3 rows that need mulching, when we finally are able to get it. Here...

Walk With Me - See What I See - On Into the Night

Asiatic Day Flower It's time to go with me on another stroll around the Hill Homestead. There are different things blooming all the time. I like how my gardens ...

Wide Open Daily: Day 69

Over the weekend we went camping with @mikeyatez and after all the kids went to sleep we talked mike into going down to the river after dark and take some pictu...

My Flower Gardens - Volunteer Petunias and Volunteer Squash/Gourd

I have always bought petunia plants from local greenhouses and garden centers and grown them in hanging baskets. I have never had them come back or seed themsel...

Ozark Insects - Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly

This beauty chose me as its own personal salt block after I had spent the day on the river floating with friends. I was pretty sweaty and gross. Butterflies lik...

Ozark Insects - A Little Inchworm Friend

I found this little critter on my hammock chair a few mornings ago. I had my macro lens out and took these. Inchworms sure move quickly! After the short photo s...

Our Chickens - Dust Baths and Sleepovers

Egg photo shoot in the beautiful green grass The chickens are doing well. We've been getting between 4 and 7 eggs a day. Two went broody but I don't have a suff...

The Contest of Petals - A Hollyhock for PinkFlowerDay

This is my entry to @petals Contest of Petals. PinkFlowerDay is on Wednesdays but I thought I'd get this posted while I was thinking about it. This is a macro s...

Ozark Mushrooms - Fawn Mushroom

Pluteus atricapillus If I have identified this correctly, and I think I have, this should be a Fawn Mushroom. Their season is from May to October and occur sing...

Tree Tuesday - Ozark Trees - Hickory and Its Nuts

On our 10 acres homestead we have several hickory trees. There is a fairly large one in our front yard, a couple by the sheep, and countless ones in the woods. ...

Our Greenhouse - 'Maters and Peppers!

Baby Vernissage 'maters! The garden is doing great. The cabbages are still in the process of closing up. I have to water about every 24-36 hours. If I miss a wa...

Ozark Critters - Wolf Spiders

Tigrosa aspersa...or Tigrosa something-or-another...They're hard to tell apart. This "little" lady wandered up on my porch the other morning. I told my husband ...