G'Day everyone, Dutch here! Welcome to my little place in the Universe!

Going to do a short blog here, had a busy weekend in the yard and garden, “spring cleanup” as it’s called … also some maintenance items… for the next few blogs gonna play the music I grew up with… some is kind of hard to find a half century later because that was BEFORE country wasn’t cool..

anyway I met this person on a couple of occasions.. Mom and Dad had a local band and they would play on the radio, at dances, fairs and the like.. he was known as the “Tennessee Plowboy”, Eddy Arnold… I use to listen to him quite a bit on the WLS Barn Dance.. but first a little something from the Barn Dance…

Sooooooooooooooooooo put your troubles aside, pull up a chair and visit a spell… I danced many a dance to this one…

was a busy weekend trying to tidy up, looks like a stormy week…just remember it’s subject to change... here’s the latest for my place in the Universe..

here is today’s outlook from Norman, Okla.. so you folks down wind to the SW of here keep watch on the weather… possible tornadoes, large hail, strong winds along with more rain…

this is the way things are shaping up for tomorrow….

so needing to get some loose ends finished today and “batten the hatches”…. this was one of my mom’s favorites…

this was how things looked here when the sun come up this morning…

with the weather being so nice, Bree has been going at a dead run sunup to sunset trying to keep the neighborhood under control.. crashes and burns around 10 PM and won’t move a muscle till sunup and then do it all over again.. feed her two pounds a food a day and she burns up three..

< here’s a picture of a blackbird standing watch…>

they are starting a nest in the top of the pine.. a pair of doves have a nest started just below them… he’ll sit there and sound the alarm if anything approaches and soon you have a flock of them there ready for a fight.. All kinds of birds use those pines for different reasons as well as other trees… they, along with other yard folk here, have food and water here and no one bothers them...Bree and Miss Daisy see to that…

well I had better scoot, got to go finish up the day… gonna have grilled pork cutlets and leftovers today, beef stew on the agenda for tomorrow.. Soooooooooooooo everyone have a smilin' gooooooooooooooooood day full of Peace Love and Happiness and I'll see you next time if the good Lord's willing and the creeks don't rise....