Photography Straight From The Heart

How can you resist that face?  Meet Chester, our Miniature Donkey.  He’s such a sweetheart and always hungry.  Chester is another one of our rescues.  He’s been lucky twice in his life.  The first time he was rescued off a trailer full of donkeys that were heading for the killers.  The people that rescued him from there fell on hard times and could not afford to feed him, so now he has a permanent home with us.  Babyface (our rescue Thoroughbred) and Chester get along famously.  They are tried and true buddies.  From the looks of their thick shaggy coats, it should be a cold winter.  They sure are fuzzy.

This is Spike.  Of course he had to have his nose in the middle of whatever it was I was doing out there at the fence.  Might miss a morsel.  Spike is also another rescue.  He was a tiny kitten that would barely fit in your hand.  He was dumped in the median of a busy 4-lane highway.  He is the sweetest thing and has grown into a beautiful cat.

Dana’s rescue is just about full!!  We have a horse, a donkey, 3 dogs and 4 cats.  All rescues or unwanted animals.  They will live out the rest of their lives here with us.  No more worries for them.

I loved the colors and textures of this poinsettia leaf.  It was a beautiful plant this year with the varigated leaves.  It’s starting to show it’s age, but hopefully I can keep it alive until spring and plant it in the garden.

It’s look pretty cool in a high contrast black and white.

This year I let Austin pick out the angel to top our tree.  He took a long time, looking at each one carefully before he decided on the Snow Angel.  He was so proud of it. When we got home my husband had rigged a gold lighted star on top of the tree.  It was all crooked and flopping over.  Austin though it was ok and he wanted to set his Angel on the table holding the tree.

Today my husband came to me with the Snow Angel and asked what happened to her wings.  After careful examination, I KNOW what happened to her wings.  Miss Sally Weiner dog took her pointed little micro snoot and flead them off.  There was not another mark on the angel at all.  Just the wings chewed down to nubbins.  I know it was her with that pointy little nose.  She’s a nibbler and I find her mark here and there.  Jack would have done the Jack Russel thing and ripped it to shreds leaving his evidence covering the entire living room.

So now we just have a Snow Queen……………

Hopefully we’ll have many more

Dad and his little dog Lola

A blue bowl of generic Fruit Loops.  Blahhhhhhhhh!  Ran that stupid carpet cleaner all day non stop.  I do have to say it looks great.  White carpet should be banned!  My Dad is so happy with it.  It’s worth the smile on his face.

I did, but not from drinking.  I did have two Bailey’s and Creme.  It was the ribs that my husband cooked on his smoker that did us all in.  He cooked 5 slabs.  We just had family over for a quiet dinner and evening.  Trouble was after we ate all those ribs all we could do was sit around and moan!

We started cleaning all the carpets in Dad’s house today.  Two rooms about 40 x 60 each.  We took a couple hours time out and took the boys to the zoo so they could burn off some energy.  It didn’t work.

I’ve decided to join a group of ladies in a 365 project.  One photo a day for a year.  You’ll never know where I might point my camera.  This could be quite interesting or boring as hell depending on your point of view.  I’m a little late in joining in on this, but I have been taking the photos daily.  As soon as I get my new computer up to speed, I can post easily.  For now, I’m on my laptop which jumps all over the place as I’m typing.  It’s not easy to process photos like this either.  I’ll be in heaven when I get everything installed on the desktop.  Maybe tomorrow, as all the family has gone back home after the holiday rush.