I am standing on the front porch looking north east

I am facing East here

Here is a little better view, I walked out on the side walk.

I am still looking east, you can see Utah Lake

we have beautiful sunrises

my favorite is when the full moon rises over the lake, there is a glittery moon path on the water,
it is stunning.

Here we are looking out my back door.

We are right up against 100 zillion acres of open land, out here in the western USA that mean a lot of sage brush and dry grass. Sometimes if we have a wet spring, there will be wildflowers, and sometimes, because of stupid people, there will be wild fires.

(I will do a post with wild fire pics another time)

Sometimes, late at night you can hear the coyotes calling.

There are also a lot of snakes, occasionally of the rattling variety.

We get a lot of deer too.

We have even twice rescued Jack Rabbits, who have become trapped in out window wells!

So there you go, my little slice of the world.
I absolutely love it!
There are some challenges living here.

It is really hot and dry (Utah is a desert after all)

We have had cattle and sheep make short work of our gardens more than once.

Grasshoppers ate the first tree we ever planted,

and the deer…well…we all know what deer can do.

I sort of feel like a suburban homesteader, and I am oh so thankful for the grocery store!

I am going to go out on a limb and tag non-family, so of my blogger friends that I have found while browsing the blogs!

so here goes…

I tag

Garibay Soup, Be It Ever So Humble, Mom to Five Kids

and Jesica

(ok fine one family member, she lives far away and I have always wanted to see her house.)