#GRATEFULVIBES - ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE/WEEKLY THOUGHTS - 16 APR 2023 - 24 APR 2023
Good morning, Steemians! 😊
My apologies to all for the delayed post. This week was extra crazy and just ran out of time to write it yesterday. I spent the whole day cleaning and cooking in preparation for our son and his family to come out for supper last night to celebrate our son’s birthday, which is today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, my boy! He probably doesn’t even read my blog posts anymore, but just in case. 😊
The three Tom turkeys, that we call The Triplets, hanging out with a couple of Cravens (Crows/Ravens combined as I can’t tell them apart,) in the front pasture. 😊
My handsome husband had the thought that, since a couple of our hatchlings were actually Phyllis’s chicks hatched out in the incubator and she was doing well with mothering the two she hatched herself out in the barn, that we’d see if she’d take to play mom to all the hatchlings, but it didn’t work. She was okay with most of the hatchlings, but she took an instant dislike to Floyd, her son, for some reason. I’m not sure if it was because we hatched out in here, because he’s a rooster or for some other reason entirely, but now we know. 😊
Phyllis and the two she hatched herself, Duo (with the two black dots on its head) and Lingo (the one that looks just like Pansy in the foreground) headed back out to the barn and the rest of the hatchlings didn’t seem to mind them leaving. 😊
I’ve got a question for everyone and anyone that might know the answer. Here on this screen my posts show up just after I post them, but when I actually click on the Veteran’s community to check the site my posts aren’t there anymore. Why? 😊
This is what it looks like when I actually click the Veterans community button, no matter if I’ve just posted or posted last week it always shows nothing current and everything is more than a month prior. Any help, tips, tricks, whatever that anyone can offer to explain this to me would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance to any and all that have any ideas on why they vanish. 😊
We had our official first barbecue of 2023 and it was so good. 😊
Snack and chat time with squirrels. 😊
Some of our Blackbirds stopping in for a snack 😊
Raindrops falling on our heads and cleaning our rock wall. 😊
Pansy standing up on the log watching me while I watch the other hatchlings. 😊
We had a new flock of Blackbirds and Red-winged Blackbirds come by this week and I caught their arrival in this shot that I was snapping of the rest of the Pigeons coming in for their supper. 😊
This week I took some homemade tortillas, coated them with cinnamon/brown sugar butter, sliced them up, put them through the Vortex Plus using the rotisserie and ended up with crackers that tasted like Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal. They were a huge hit with my handsome husband, and they did not last long at all. I think I’m going to try making some hickory barbecue ones this week😊
Pansy, a brave girl walking on and grabbing a snack from my handsome husband’s hand. 😊
Have you heard of the website Temu? I tried it, ordered a bunch of different things because the prices were so good. My first order made it safe and sound, but my second looked like someone had drop-kicked across a football field and when I opened it, this is what I found. I was so sad; this was the one item I’d been really looking forward to getting. I even ordered it in a protective foam, but it didn’t come in one, which probably explains the state of my poor tea infuser. 😊
A couple of visiting Ducks hanging out in our pond on Friday. 😊
We got to watch while our main flock worked on the garden on Saturday. 😊
After the main flock was done, we brought out the hatchlings to give them a chance to work the garden and find some nice grubs and worms, they had a blast. 😊
It was a lot of fun watching them play keep away when one of them found a nice juicy worm. I’ve got to get some of the video footage loaded into YouTube, then I can share it in my next post, if I remember and can get it to work. 😊
The hatchlings using my handsome husband as their protector when the main flock wandered back over to the garden. 😊
The sun was just coming up over the trees as I finished my morning walk to feed the birds. 😊
Homemade pizza pockets, messy but still very tasty. 😊
My first attempt at making French bread, didn’t turn out quite perfect, but they turned out pretty good and our neighbour really enjoyed the bigger one. 😊
Floyd (the dark brown one) blends so well with the garden dirt in this picture that I thought he wasn’t in it at first. 😊
Well, that was how things have been going for us here. I hope you have all been safe and healthy and have had an amazing week! 😊 I’m grateful to God for blessing us with another week to share with you here. 😊 God bless you all. 😊 Have an awesome week everyone! 😊
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(All photos taken by me or for me by my handsome husband on my Huawei P30 Lite or Samsung S20FE5G.) (https://frostyamber.picfair.com is the address for my Picfair site if anyone’s interested in checking it out.)