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Thursday, July 25, 2019

Our New Herb Garden

 This is a sphere our daughter-in-law, wife of our youngest son, welded. She welded this sphere out of horse shoes our son removed from horses to replace their worn horse shoes. Every amazing item our beloved daughter-in-law welds is composed of used horse shoes she has to clean of rust and dirt before she can even begin to create her works of art. There is a whole lot of hard and very dirty work involved in simply making the horse shoes usable in her horse shoe compositions.

 My husband built the pergola in the background last year. This year he made an herb garden. The main feature of our new herb garden is the two spheres welded by our daughter-in-law, and the herbs.
 We are going to mount the spheres on tree stumps from our woods, soon.

 The herb garden also borders the driveway and our front yard. The sidewalk divides the herb garden from the front yard and walkway from the driveway.
 My old cat Miss Marple likes to sun herself in the new herb garden.


Even more is going on in the back yard and gardens. Our deck was rebuilt last year, we are in the process of making an outdoor kitchen/cooking/eating area now. Life in this part of Washington is coming to terms with the high and dry summer heat and learning to live with it and love it.We will have a covered eating area near the barbecue and smoker.This corner of our new (replaced) deck is where I've placed pots of herbs and flowers that will be moved later when our outdoor kitchen is done. My new chicken house is the building seen here in the background.

Life here has been glorious, we're so happy and blessed to live here. We're enjoying the many blessings of being near our sons and their families and also, now that we're retired , we're enjoying and appreciating the ability to set our schedule and time for ourselves. ( Hey, if we want to take a nap or just kick back and read a good book, we can !)

We have made many changes to our new home and farm for the better. We've improved our pastures, made vegetable and herb and flower gardens. My husband has invested much time and money in making our bee yard better for the bees and for increasing our honey production. Our poultry yard provides more eggs than we can use, but we're able to share the bounty with family and neighbors. My sheep have increased beyond my wildest dreams simply because sheep really do thrive on pasture ... amazing ! My husband and I love our new home more than we could have ever anticipated and I am thankful beyond what I can express. God is so good !

13 comments:

Leigh said...

The horseshoe spheres are really impressive. And they look so good in your herb garden. Your whole yard is really attractive! You've put a lot of work into your place and it shows!

De said...


Everything looks beautiful! My brother-in-law is a farrier so I understand a bit about how much work went into those spheres. They are amazing.

Theresa said...

OH MY, that horseshoe sphere is BEAUTIFUL! My Nephew have lots of horses and I just might share this with them. A great way to use those old horseshoes when they are taken off the horses. Enjoy your day dear friend, HUGS!

Henny Penny said...

That horseshoe sphere is amazing! It's beautiful! Your new herb garden is also beautiful. I love the picture (side bar) of your son and grandson and the flag made from horseshoes. That is so neat. Your farm sounds just wonderful.

Deborah Montgomery said...

Hi Kathy! So happy to see you are back blogging, although I know it's been a few months. I have been AWOL a lot lately, so it's nice to catch up with old blog friends. Your new place looks beautiful. So nice to hear that the chickens and sheep and bees are thriving. Your herb garden is beautiful, and so are those amazing spheres your DIL made.

ellen b. said...

The spheres are really cool. A nice feature in your herb garden. Your property is looking lovely and well cared for. Love the pergola.

FlowerLady Lorraine said...

Dear Kathy ~ what a joyous post to read and I love the photos. Your chickens have a wonderful house to live in, the horseshoe spheres are fantastic, job well done by your DIL and they look great in your new herb garden. I am so glad to read that you are happy living in your new location and that you've been busy improving things. Thanks for the update. Love, hugs & prayers ~ FlowerLady

Texastracking said...

so glad y'all are getting to reap the benefits of retirement - it is a glorious time of life when one has family , faith and health enough to stay active! Loving the improvements you've shared with us and hooray for pasture raised animals - they do love that roaming and eating!

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Unknown said...

Those sculptures are gorgeous, as is the herb garden!! Everything looks just lovely, you truly are surrounded by blessings!

Laurel Wood said...

I love your herb garden. The horseshoe sphere is wonderful. It is nice to see Miss Marple enjoying herself. Thankful you are so happy there.

Deb said...

Wow... you have been busy. Everything looks wonderful and I love the new chicken house. A dream for me. :-) "Good morning Miss Marple. "

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