This is my baby.

The red flower basket DH got for me and the last 2 I purchased yesterday.

Picture of our frontyard fish pond. Haven't worked on it yet this year besides the four pots of flowers that I planted today. Pond has to be pumped out and cleaned and the rocks for the waterfall will get redone. Normally our fish live thru the winter but this year we lost all. 1 pot is all hummingbird--pinapple sage, cigar plant, and hummingbird sage, another is a red ger., one is lantana, creeping zinna, verbera and some type of blue flower and one is the red million bells. Day lillies need to be divided this year. The other plant is a spinning evening primrose that I got starts from my grandma from. It blooms yellow and opens its flowers at about 8 p.m. at night. Smell great when they open. Blooms drop off next day. They spin open.

Simple Chocolate Cheesecakes

24 vanilla wafer cookies
2-8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
2 tablespoons flour
3 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
Topping (recipe follows)
canned cherry pie filling, chilled

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin pans with foil baking cups. Place one vanilla wafer in the bottom of each sup. In large mixing bowl beat cream cheese and sugar. Add cocoa and flour. Add eggs, beat well. Blend in sour cream and vanilla. Fill each cup almost full with cheese mixture. Bake 15-20 minutes or just until set. Remove from oven, cool 5-10 minutes. Spoon heaping teaspoonful topping on center of each cup. Cool completely and chill. Garnich with cherry pie filling before serving.

Topping
In a small bowl combine 1 cup sour cream, 2 tablespoons sugar, and 1 teaspoon vanilla, stir until sugar dissolves.

The same co-worker brought these and the Double Chocolate Fantasy Bars (recipe below) to work today. Both were VERY GOOD!

Double Chocolate Fantasy Bars

1 chocolate cake mix
1/3 cup oil
1 egg
1 cup chopped nuts
1 (14 oz) Eagle Brand Milk (sweetened condensed)
1 (6 oz) pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla
dash salt

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, beat cake mix, oil and egg on meduim speed until crumbly. Add nuts. Reserving 1 1/2 cups of the crumb mixture, press remainder firmly on bottom of greased 13 X 9 baking pan. In a small saucepan, combine remaining ingredients. Over meduim heat, cook and stir unti ships are melted. Pour evenly over prepared crust. Top with reserved crumb mixture. Bake 25-30 minutes or until bubbly. Cool. Cut into bars. Store loosely covered at room temperature.

I am posting a few pictures that I took today. Remember if you click picture it enlarges. See the bluebird better. That is my favorite bird.

Orange Poppies
1 of our 5 Clematiss that is blooming
Eastern Bluebird by our pasture
Eastern Bluebird our one of the blackberry post. We are taking those post out and putting it up on hedge post
5 baby bluebirds--the first fledging of the season. They will leave soon. The parents weren't happy with me messing around there.
Our kitten. It is named "Little Tommy" She just had 1 and my DH totally has taken to this one. He is even considering putting a kitty door in the new shed we are putting up for it.