Strep infection in the middle of summer?

I have been longing to take pretty photos to share here with you. It has been awhile since I have been able to do that and it is driving me crazy. I even took a long way home today to see if I could find something I wanted to photograph and NADA! NILCH! NOTHING!  So , I pulled out the old homestead card again and just walked around my property. Love this tub filled with white flowers on my deck. I had the same thing in it last year along with  white allysum that somehow got left out this year. Hmm...someone obviously was not paying attention. *Smile*

I would love to find a whole field of Queen Annes Lace, but little bits here and there will have to do for now. I do love that prairie weed ...I mean flower!

This has not been a pleasant week around the Boothman house. It started with me on Tuesday. I got out of bed and felt like a mac truck had ran over me. My throat was sooooooooo sore and I just ached all over. I figured a 24 hour bug that would disappear fast. Not. So. Much.  It hung on and hung on...just started feeling somewhat normal late yesterday and today. Still have a little sore throat , but nothing like it was.

IN THE MEANTIME...

Hubby came home from work Thursday at 9 am. Now this is not a good sign when he normally gets home at 3:30 or later. He was full blown SICK! Same as me, but it hit him even harder...so hard that I hauled him into the doctor yesterday. You have to understand that this man NEVER goes to the doctor and NEVER misses work. He has full blown strep infection and is a mess. He is on an antibiotic and I am praying that it starts working extra hard soon so could you please pray for that too?  He is still having a lot of pain in his throat and his glands are swollen etc.   Oh yes, when he came home early Thursday, he told me that he had started to doze off on the way to work and also ended up hitting a small deer. Lord have mercy!! It didn't hurt his battered , old, pickup truck, but I think it was about the last straw for him the way he was feeling. Thank you so much for your prayers!! 

For the love of old barns

Well ladies, guess what I did yesterday and will probably do

today and tomorrow...err...maybe just Saturday.

I went to *part of* the *World's Longest Garage Sale*.

It was humid, hot, and craaazy!!

It starts just a few miles away on route 127

and ends in Alabama.

Hmm...I am thinking next year maybe go the whole

way and stay at my niece's in Alabama where I have never been!

I figured out quick that this is not the life

for me UNLESS it is 70 degrees...then it would be great!

I would also like every bit

of it under a big tent to hit it all at once. LOL.

But I digress...on to the barns!!

I just had to include my little *barn chick*

...3 year old granddaughter Annika.

She will be happy to take you on a tour

of beautiful old barns that I photographed

in the past few weeks.

I love this gray barn and thought it would look

neat with a postage stamp frame.

This barn is just up the road a few miles and I love the Queen Anne's Lace in the foreground.

Just had to include this one with the huge chicken.

Immaculate farm and upkeep of the barns.

Love the stone foundation on this beauty.

This barn was my husband's grandfather's many, many

years ago. It stands a few miles away from us and this is the best shot I could get.

Don't you just love this old weathered gray barn?

Just the right amount of chippiness...pure beauty!

I have seen a lot of round bales this year and

they look right at home in this 1900 barn.

I just love these next few pictures of several

old barns in one place.

Another barn made into a postage stamp. I am thinking the postal service really ought

to make stamps of old barns.

{I found this poem online}

Old Barn by Vance Oliphant

Just down the road...around the bend,

Stands an old empty barn; nearing the end.

It has sheltered no animals for many years;

No dairy cows, no horses, no sheep, no steers.

The neigh of a horse; the low of a cow;

Those sounds have been absent for some time now.

There was a time when the loft was full of hay,

And the resounding laughter of children at play.

At one time the paint was a bold shade of red;

Gradually faded by weather and the sun overhead.

The doors swing in the wind...the hinges are loose;

Windows and siding have taken a lot of abuse.

The fork, rope and pulleys lifted hay to the mow;

A task that always brought sweat to the brow.

But those good days are gone; forever it seems,

And that old barn now stands with sagging beams.

It is now home to pigeons, rats and mice;

The interior is tatterd and doesn't look very nice.

Old, abandoned barns have become a trend,

Just down the road....around the bend.

This concludes our tour of beautiful old

barns and I hope you enjoyed it.

Please visit Brayton Homestead Interiors

for more barn chick posts and have fun~

Blessings~

Loving the Country Life

Have I ever told you that I love living in the country? I have been a country gal all my life and I just

can't imagine living in the city.

I love all the beautiful old barns that we have in

our area and yesterday we took a drive and I

photographed a few.

This setting of barns and old buildings was just amazing. I want to go back and get some better pictures when

I am by myself. Most of these were taken out of the

car window as hubby was beginning to be

*nervous nellie*

with the traffic. He gets that way...not me!

I just want pictures! LOL

I will say that these were on a very busy corner of a

highway so next time I will have to probably park

the car in someone's driveway and walk, but

I think it is worth it! I just love chippy old buildings!

No matter the angle of this setting...pure beauty.

I would love to live here. There was a house , but it was not close to the buildings, so we don't know if it was the owner or not.

The two photos below are how Queen Anne's Lace grows in our area! All along the roads, fields, etc. We literally saw fields that were full of it.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes,

they have very little of my love and admiration.

I long for rural and domestic scene, for the

warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

~John Adams

It is only in the country that we can get to know

a person or a book.

~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, 1945

Blessings and happy monday!

White Wednesday~

I purchased this piece of ironstone at a garage sale

on the way up to my daughters house last weekend for $2.00.

Love it~

My beautiful White Phlox and Queen Annes lace

Mirror reflection ~ Home Goods deal also on the way to my daughters... Tea canister for 5.99~ Wish we had smellaputer so you could smell the intoxicating fragrance of these flowers~

Enjoy your White Wednesday today.

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