I really do cook occasionally

I know way back when I started this self indulgent blogging boogey - I said I'd be sharing recipes and lots of food ideas. Welllll today I made chicken spaghetti and a citrus pound cake for a sweet young family who just had a baby boy - HI Hollis - cutest little guy I've seen in a long while. It was fun doing this - chicken spaghetti is one of those things I almost never make for our household (too much food, too rich and DH prefers chicken and dumplings if I'm doing the boil a whole bird thing). The cake was made with both lemon and orange. Just a touch of amaretto to give it a complexity - that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Might eventually post recipes but most likely - if somebody asks I'll email 'em. don't want to keyboard for that long tonight. We are still controlling cholesterol and fat so had very controlled dinner here in Buhlaland - but a gal can dream can't she?

Ever think they are circling?

Vulture floating on thermal above our house - Hmmm - I guess I need to be a lot more active? Even vultures have their role, cartoons portray them so dumb - but they are the clean up crew of nature. Wish they did windows? Just a thought

Autumn Glory

Definitely just an exercise in ego if I try to say anything smart or clever about the beauty of autumn coming to our little piece of Texas. Views are early in the morning, looking mostly into our back pasture areas, not as vibrant a display of color as other parts of the world - but maybe that is what I love, the subtlety of change. It is pretty this week on Buhlaland - but then I've said that before! Great quote from Jim Elliot : "Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God." Autumn is definitely the will of God - so live it up!

Funky cats

Moe is the black one, Seal is the grey one. They are truly the odd couple. Moe is our barn cat - he came to us when we moved into the infamous apartment in the barn/workshop. Seal is supposed to be a house cat, pureblood Devon Rex. Seal is happier now than he seems to have ever been. Although he definitely spends more time indoors than out - most mornings he can hardly wait to go outside, butt into Moe and take off to see what they can find. They occasionally mix it up - Seal loses those arguments. But in these two pictures, they were following us out to the goat pens,(shadows are the front gate to pens) . No great meaning to the pictures, just tickled me that they were watching out for our dogs (the picture where they are both turned away) and Seal was concerned about the loud sounds of acorns hitting the roof of the metal building next to the pens. They know they belong here. Just goofing around in the sunshine with my cats (they believe I am their person not they are my cats). It is often just this exciting on Buhlaland - and I like it like that!