Sheriff has always had a weakness for boxes ;)

 Spring is gloriously here!


 Friday evening, we attended an evening session at a nearby conference. :) 

 People visiting before the session started...

Mr. T. introducing the speaker.  It was a great evening!

 Stephen, taking photos for his new blog...

 Making a jumper

 One of those misty April mornings


 Then -- the next day, errands in McKinney!

 We did something we've never done before -- Mom took us kids out to In-N-Out, since we were in the area!

 
 An interestingly-decorated doctor's office ;)


 New sandals!


 Quiet moments with an old tape player

 Mom's tomatoes


And an evening badminton game...

Christ is Risen!

Christ the Lord is risen today,
Sons of men and angels say:
Raise your joys and triumphs high,
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.

Love's redeeming work is done,
Fought the fight, the battle won:
Lo! our Sun's eclipse is o'er;
Lo! He sets in blood no more.

Vain the stone, the watch, the seal;
Christ hath burst the gates of Hell!
Death in vain forbids His rise;
Christ hath opened Paradise!

 Lives again our glorious King:
Where, O Death, is now thy sting?
Once He died, our souls to save:
Where thy victory, O Grave?

- Charles Wesley
 Mom and Stephen, taking care the ducks in the morning!

 Water boy!

 Sherman Symphony practice season is on! 
The next concert will be fun and beautiful songs from various operas, and will be held on May 2nd, at 7:30 p.m. :) 
Hope to see you there!

 We got chicks! (100 meat chicks)

 Babies and mama

 They're so cute right now -- but just wait a month... ;)


 And... I apologize in advance, but I'm going to post quite a few redbud photos -- because I love redbud! If you think it looks awful, then quickly scroll past the next few photos... ;)





 This little dell in the trees always looks so invitingly peaceful and pretty...

 Blackberry blooms -- note where they are now, and in a month or so you can find blackberries there!


 Just talking :)

 Stephen has started a blog (yes, really!)! He's been pretty busy taking pictures for it. :)

 Shadows and contrasts


 Taking a walk (I'm almost always lagging behind these two, stopping to capture the little beauties on our road...)

 Ummm?

 Kateyn's beautiful rose

 Oops, sorry! I forgot to warn you earlier that there would be more redbud pics further down in this post! ;)



 Green idyll

 Abundance

 Ben's goat Nabisco had twins yesterday afternoon!!!

 They're a pale reddish color


 Taking care of her little one

 Why is this dog running?

 Because Sheriff is chasing him!
(A neighbor came over with a weedeater for Andrew to fix, and brought his dog. When the dog started loping around our property, Sheriff started coming up after him -- though thankfully for the dog, it left with its owner before Sheriff arrived to lay down the law! ;)

I'll close with a fun picture Andrew took -- he's been helping out at the local airport, working as a ground crewman for several cropdusters. :) Here's one of the planes!

Conference Audios


Just wanted to let you know that some of the speeches from the KBR conference are now available in audio format here: