A look back ~

You know how I love old images, illustrations and photos, right?

Well, I just recently discovered the Library of Congress website....

chock FULL of beautiful old photographs and other goodies ~

Here are a few that I fell in love with:

I've edited and cropped these to my liking ~ maybe to use in artwork?

You could too! These are all so, so very old.

I've been drawn to the precious children that worked in the fields,

as young as 3 and 4 years old!

So many of these sweet children don't even have shoes.

Life was so hard back then. We have it so good these days and don't even realize it.

Don't you love these amazing photos?

I just had to share them with you ~

Wishing you a wonderful Monday dear friends!

hugs and love,

Dawn

I don't know if I'm an "official farmgirl" but... we've got chickens!!!

I've always loved animals.

When I was just eleven years old I had about five rabbits

and even bred them for a short time!

The baby bunnies would just melt your heart....

Our new chicks (well, they are really a couple of weeks old) we bought

Saturday have already grown like little weeds!!

Here's some pics from Monday afternoon playing under the pecan trees.....

Ellie's being such a good sport and tolerating our new additions to the family!

We purchased two each of three different breeds...

Ameraucana,

Plymouth Rock and

Rhode Island Red ~

Here's what the little ones should grow up to look like:

SO.

Monday, my eldest son Brent and I

headed to Lowe's to buy a little bit of lumber!

You know I'm always trying to watch my pennies so we

ended up spending about 60.00 on lumber

and some metal roofing

to make a coop for them!!

In just three hours Brent finished it!!!!

Here is a photo he sent me with his phone right before finishing the roof ~
I just LOVE IT!!!

He's going to make a plank to go from the ground up to the door ~

I'll show a few more pics as soon as I can of the finished piece.

Now I just have to paint it to protect it from the elements!

Now I need to buy wire and lumber for the protective pen area outside of the coop.

Oh....and look at the eggs these sweet babies are supposed to give us:

Do you think Lowe's could color match that gorgeous shade of blue using an egg????

Thank you so very much for your wonderful anniversary wishes and

sweet words about my altered box!!!!

Wishing you a beautiful Tuesday my dear friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn