Welcome to my morning....welcome to my day. I'm the one responsible.... I made it just this way.

The opening remarks of my first blog. My kids always inspire to me to try new and exciting adventures in my life and since my girls have become awesome bloggers, they've got me to give this a try. I guess that makes it sound like I have a really dull life if my biggest adventure is to start a blog....my life is my family and that's a pretty big adventure to keep up with though....especially with all my kids and their families do. When they were growing up, we led them along on adventures and now they're the ones we are tethered to that take us to exciting places.

I know pictures say a thousand words but I have to closely monitor what pictures I will post as my girls especially are very critical of what is put up on the internet for all to see....I get caught up in the excitement of what was happening in the picture and memory it evokes and fail to see that piece of spinach in their front teeth, or that it's a bad hair day, or that smirk was really outrageous. So pictures will be slow in coming and well thought out....so with that disclaimer stated....I will closely scrutinize a family picture to post. And with that in mind, I post our first pictures of our family that I think my girls will approve of.......

Let me introduce to you our four legged family members......First is Wally....or Barkley.....or Smudly.....or whatever other "eee" ending name you can think of. We just got Wally a few weeks ago from the pound in Red Bluff. Thank you Maggie for helping us to find him. He was left by some homeless people who just dropped him off and didn't even tell them his name......we just know he comes to any name ending with the "eee" sound. He's a real sweetheart and is a great addition to the family so far with his one blue eye and one brown eye. We think if we still had Anna and Tank, they'd give him a full thumb's up (or paws up) cuz he has a lot of the same easy going loving character they had. As you can see by Anna and Tank here though, it takes quite a stretch to be as good and faithful as they were.

Then there's our cat Babe. We've had Babe now for probably 10 years as best our memory is. Every animal we've had has bowed down to Babe....she's the Queen of Beasley Farms. Even the coyotes that cross our acreage daily don't mess with Babe. She's our only cat who has survived the frequent "picking off" of the coyotes. In fact I'm not even going to mention Tevia, our other cat, because I have not seen him for a few days now and could very well himself be the demise of a coyote. You can see by this picture the love and pampering our Babe gets and very well deserves.

So that's the start of our blog. Very low key of which I hope my girls approve. This has been fun but I've gotta get to work....as ususal.