More Photos

Nothing majorly exciting in general ... & only 3 ... but here are some photos I took while John & I were wandering about the property this afternoon.  Alas, it was almost 70 degrees & before we had even reached the gate to "the back 40" (which is actually the back 11 or 12) I was already miserably hot.  Oh how I dread the warm weather months   : (

While on the back 11 or 12 we saw a neighbor's cow in the distance ... a black one.  Then we saw a brown one.  We haven't seen them before & they looked rather young so I'm guessing they are new residents to the area.  (As you can see, neighbors aren't too neighborly around here.)  The young cows were very inquisitive.  I'm assuming this was because it was their first time seeing us as well   : )   I thought about walking down along the fence to where they were in order to properly introduce myself but it would've involved more walking in the aforementioned sweltering almost 70 degree heat & I promptly decided "forget it."  Instead I used the zoom on my camera once again & took a photo of the black cow.  The brown cow had decided to play hide & seek behind a tree.

After re-entering through the gate I got these 2 closeups of flowers growing in my weed gardens.  Morticia Addams would be horrified!

I probably could've attempted to try taking these photos even closer but did not want to spend any more time in the oppressive heat than I had to.    

It appears we have gremlins or perhaps poltergeists in the garage.  Remember that flat tire on our riding mower?  It actually went flat last fall.  We had to search all over the central Kentucky area to find a replacement tire & did find one in late October/early November I believe but, masters of procrastination that we are, we never did anything with it.  We thought about it a few times the past month or two but never followed through.  About a week or so ago we actually attempted putting on the new tire.  What we discovered was that although the tire was the correct size, the rim was for an entirely different mower.  On Wednesday we ended up taking the new tire & the flat tire to a local tire shop where they simply pulled off the new tire & placed it on the old rim.  This morning we put the new tire on the riding mower & all was well.  I decided to start the mower so we could attach the little wagon to it to pull some stuff down to "the back 11 or 12."  The mower wouldn't start.  It made a noise but wouldn't turn over.  John said we should just let it go & try again later.  It's later now.  We went out to try to start it again but when I sat on the seat something didn't feel quite right.  The mower was leaning.  Can you believe that tire is flat again?  What in the world is happening here?  I'm going to call the repair place tomorrow & just have them come to cart it away to give it a good tune-up & figure out what's happening with the tire.  This is beyond weird.  Meanwhile I looked up the nearest mowing service to see if we can get them to do the mowing.  Hopefully they will actually answer the phone when I call, talk with me & schedule a time to come here to give us an estimate,  & then actually show up when they say they will.  Wish me luck with that.  Things don't usually follow this pattern in central Kentucky.