What kind of birds are these?

Close up at dusk...



On the ground, dusting and eating bugs?








We see them every evening around 6 o'clock, sometimes earlier.












This is the first time I have saw so many on the highwires.









About 6:15 most days, they will be swooping down near the ground catching insects on the fly. They have to be a kind of swallow. Their underbellies look golden as they fly in the distance and they have a bright reddish ring under their chin. The tops of their bodies are very dark, blue to black.






They have to be some kind of swallow. I have searched the web and decided they are barn swallows. They must roost in either Clayton's or Frank's barn as I do not have a building close by for them to roost in.

Cleaning the fence row

Rain on the Just...

You will have to ask the other sisters about rain on the Unjust...

One hunderd degrees in the shade...

BTW, I really like the new Blog List. Each day I check our family blogs to see who has posted something new. Some, like Patsy, posted every day. Some, like me, posted at least once every two weeks. Now, with my blog list, I can just go to my own blog and see if anyone has posted something new. No more checking the blogs of lazy people like me each day to see if they have a new post...

Thanks, Patsy, for showing us how this worked. I had seen that they had a new My blog list, but did not think it would interest me. It is just the ticket for lazy browsers...

But this is what he was supposed to be working on...

We are hauling gravel from the creek and making me a patio out front by my new deck. Then I am going to make a couple of sidewalks. Eventually the whole area in front of my house is going to be creek gravel. We have about 4 loads to go, but George stalled on me last Monday and started mowing the pasture instead of hauling gravel.



The deck hand in Junior George. We are going floating on the Buffalo today, so they stayed the night last night, the boys with us and the girls with the other grandma. The two Adays that get up at the crack of dawn to go to work are the only ones awake at this hour.

We have the lumber to finish the railing around the deck also, maybe next week end we will get that done. Today we go have fun. You won't be seeing pictures tho. I am afraid my camera would wind up in the river, so I am leaving it at home.

George had been working

Pastures are now neat and clean.