Outdoor Wednesday

Sunday, March 6, 6:45 pm

Monday, March 7, 6:30 pm

What a difference 24 hours can make, huh? I thought there would be even more snow today, but it rained!

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A White Outdoor Wednesday - again!

It's snowing again! I'm getting a lot done, painting my ceiling in my sunroom, and shampooing carpet. Have a great week, and celebrate that every day is one day closer to Spring! I'm connecting with the below links:

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Outdoor Wednesday - Cancun Vacation 2010

It took a little bit, because some of the members our group got to get "personal" with the TSA at the airport!

But we were happy to be out of the cold and wet, and into the warm and balmy weather of Cancun. We had never been to Cancun, and were really looking forward to it. Our resort that had been chosen 1 year before - caught fire 2 weeks before our arrival, so we were moved to a different one. One that was new, under 6 weeks since it's opening. We even enjoyed some of the funky things along the highway on the way to the resort.

We spent a lot of time at the pool, which was beach-side.

Sparkles like diamonds!

I noted that the color of the water is different on this side of Mexico than on the west side. I think the water is more turquoise on this side.

The landscaping and buildings were beautiful. Instead of a room, we each had a condo of our own, with either one or two bedrooms, two or three bathrooms, living/dining room and kitchen. We spent 5 days enjoying the sun and fun, the first week of December (my birthday!).

On our last morning, this is the little guy that watched us eat our breakfast, in the dining room. He's really intent in looking me over, as I am him! The waiting staff said it was a Spider Monkey.

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Our horses, getting ready for a cold winter!

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Outdoor Wednesday Mosaic

Here are some photos I took last weekend while out at the pasture with my DH. So many pretty things, I didn't even know these weeds could look this good! Happy Outdoor Wednesday, and I'll use it again next week for Mosaic Monday!

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Outdoor Wesnesday

Driving to work is such a treat some days. I've gone by here for weeks, watching the grass turn from green to brown, the water from dark blue to blue, and the sky from blue to grey. But, finally remembered my camera! Enjoy! And when you are done, go over and look at more Outdoor posts as the link below:

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Outdoor Wednesday - Missouri Style

Here is DH and I on vacation 2 weeks ago. We are on our balcony, which overlooked Lake of the Ozarks, at Horseshoe Bend, Missouri. We had a great time, spending it with our kids and gkids.

Love the chairs, hated the $300 price tag. Really wasn't too bad, for hand painted, and they were put together very well.

Got rained out while on the go carts, but went back later and had a great time!

We did rent a boat on Monday and went out on the lake. Wow, houses that I can't imagine!

We have only one question = who in the world could afford a place like this?

Bat(?) Boat, fake palm trees, and a helipad? Wow, no wonder American's are considered so greedy! Hope you enjoy your Outdoor Wednesday! I plan to join the others and check out more outdoor posts.

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As beautiful as this photo is, this is what followed 6 inches of rain in less than an hour, and flash flooding that swept cows away as we watched. The clouds were building for another downpour about an hour later. So beautiful, but so dangerous! Thanks for joining me as I participate in Outdoor Wednesday. Find more at the link below:

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Hope these photos look okay once they get on. We had the most beautiful rainbow today. It went ALL the way across, and was beautiful. I love the fact that I caught it in our favorite place in our yard -on the other end of the bridge!

Here's the top of the arc - over the trees.

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Pull up a chair and grab a glass of something to drink, I gotta story to tell about these two rock posts, and I think you'll want to hear it...... The above rocks, sticking out of the ground in our yard, are limestone posts. In the middle of Kansas, many people years ago used them as fence posts. They are so heavy that you can only haul 3 in the back of a heavy duty pickup. They are usaually about 7-8' long so that they go in the ground at least 3', with the other 4' sticking out for the wire to be strung on. If you drive through Kansas there are many areas with limestone posts, but the middle of Kansas is most well known.

My Mom gave these two posts to my daughters when they were young, for their birthdays. I know that sounds like an odd gift, but the girls were tickled about it, knowing the whole story. These two posts are from my Grandparents farm near Lucas, Kansas. You can search it on the internet, it's a very unique little town. Anyway, when my Grandmother was a young girl, she went with her father to the local quarry, where these posts were "harvested" for lack of a better word. That is where she met my Grandfather, and they lived happily ever after....

Now that's all well and good, but you have to think about this in a different way. I told you that they are so heavy that you can only haul 3 in a heavy duty pickup. What kind of implement would it have taken to haul these things in the days of horse and wagon? How did they get them to the fence row and put MILES of them in the ground? They are amazing to me, and to think of the WORK it took! The next photo points out the diffence in color in the stone. I'm told (and I can very well be wrong) that these colors show a difference in the weather during the development of the rock. They either show wet/dry years, but I'm not sure which is which.

The next photo shows the way they were "harvested" when Grandpa did it. The arrow show neat, round, "stake" shaped areas in the side. In the fall, a HAND drill was used to drill nice neat holes in the rock. Before the first hard freeze, and over and over during the winter, these holes were filled with water. The water would freeze, expand, and cause the rock to break, straight to the next hole, and so on.

Generally speaking, there are these drill marks on all 4 sides of the stone post, which means that it was a very long laborious task to complete. Than again, I say HOW DID THEY DO IT???? Oh my goodness, my respect for people who worked and lived in these days, just continues to GROW!

Ok, I'll get off my soap box.....ANYWAY! When these posts arrived, we were fortunate that they each had a hole already drilled in them, so that we could put a chain between the two.

With the chair between the two, it made the most unusual "hitchin" post that anyone ever had. You see, when the girls were little, they spent sun up to sun down on the back of the horses. And when they needed a potty break, or a snack, they would ride up, jump off, hook the reins onto the chain, and into the house! That's also why to this day, nothing grows well under these posts. Too much horse manure will burn the soil for many, many years! Thanks for stopping by my outdoor post for this week. Please leave your comments OR corrections, but it's my story and I'm stickin' to it! Love from me to you!!! Lets go check out the other outdoor posts, by clicking below...................

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I did a mosaic of this house a couple of months back, and got curious to find out more about this house. So this is what I found out.

This home was built in in 1880 and took 8 years to complete. In it's day, it had 14 rooms, all of which were large. The family that built it had 14 children, but 6 of them were grown and never lived in the home. It was very common in that time for Indians to come to the home and ask for food. The owners wife was continually baking bread, and when the Indians got the "whiff" of it, they would show up and take all that she had. In those days, they had to travel by wagon to Nebraska for flour, so it was a rather precious commodity. This house is located 3 miles from me, and MY house is 25 miles more/less to Nebraska. That was a long trip by wagon for flour! I'll have more information on another post, later on! Look at the awesome detail UNDER the eves of this house! Amazing!

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Outdoor Wednesday - Atchison, Kansas Friendship Forest

We're taking a tour of the International Forest of Friendship, in Atchison, Kansas. There was a bench just waiting for me to have my pix taken! As stated on the sign, the forest was started by the "99's", a group of women pilots that Amelia Ehrhart started, and continues to this day.

The gates were closed, but there is a road, so you can drive through the forest, or a you can abandon the car and take a walk on a nice day. And, we were lucky that it was truly a beautiful weekend, weather wise and OTHER wise!

The forest has a tree from every state, as well as a number of foreign countries. It's kind of amazing to see the tree from Israel, or the one from Eqypt. They look a lot like our trees, but there's a difference. A sidewalk takes you to through the forest, and it takes about an hour. If you don't read the signs, it probably would only take 15 minutes. But, you know me! I had to know as much as I could!

The above tree is the product of a seed that was taken aboard Apollo 14, in 1971. The seed traveled to the moon, then was brought back to earth and planted. So, in essence, this tree has been to the moon AND back! This tree has the plaque under it, to let you know you've got the right one!

The above memorial is at the foot of the moon tree.

Atchison is also the home of Mary Garrity, owner of Nell Hill's. She is one of the reasons we made the trip and are glad we did. There is much to see and do there, and we tried to take it ALL in, in 3 days!

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