The old fashioned butcher shop has become extinct, except here. When you want the freshest meat possible in Hendricks County, Moody Meats in Avon is your local meat market. They’ll even tell you the best way to cook your choice of meats and provide recipes. Check to see if you’re in their delivery area for home delivery. Moody Meats is located at 235 SR 267, just north of US 36.
Best wishes for a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!
After the sun melts the snow and the temperature drops. ICE!
The horses don’t mind though.
The first snow is always the prettiest. After that, not so much. Unless, of course the first snow is before Christmas, then snow is beautiful on Christmas Day. Hopefully, this year will bring a white Christmas to Indianapolis.
I actually didn’t have to change the picture to black and white. The sky was grey, the tree branches black and the snow, a beautiful layer of white.
Since I could relate to this letter in so many ways and my instructions were to send it to as many Mom’s as I could, I decided to post it here. Although mine are grown, I do remember……………
Dear Santa,
I’ve been a good mom all year. I’ve fed, cleaned and cuddled my children on demand, visited the doctor’s office more than my doctor and sold sixty-two cases of candy bars to raise money to plant a shade tree on the school playground. I was hoping you could spread my list out over several Christmases, since I had to write this letter with my son’s red crayon, on the back of a receipt in the laundry room between cycles, and who knows when I’ll find anymore free time in the next 18 years.
Here are my Christmas wishes:
I’d like a pair of legs that don’t ache (in any color, except purple, which I already have) and arms that don’t hurt or flap in the breeze, but are strong enough to pull my screaming child out of the candy aisle in the grocery store.
I’d also like a waist, since I lost mine somewhere in the seventh month of my last pregnancy.
If you’re hauling big ticket items this year I’d like fingerprint resistant windows and a radio that only plays adult music, a television that doesn’t broadcast any programs containing talking animals, and a refrigerator with a secret compartment behind the crisper where I can hide to talk on the phone.
On the practical side, I could use a talking doll that says, “Yes, Mommy” to boost my parental confidence, along with two kids who don’t fight and three pairs of jeans that will zip all the way up without the use of power tools.
I could also use a recording of Tibetan monks chanting “Don’t eat in the living room” and “Take your hands off your brother,” because my voice seems to be just out of my children’s hearing range and can only be heard by the dog.
If it’s too late to find any of these products, I’d settle for enough time to brush my teeth and comb my hair in the same morning, or the luxury of eating food warmer than room temperature without it being served in a Styrofoam container.
If you don’ t mind, I could also use a few Christmas miracles to brighten the holiday season. Would it be too much trouble to declare ketchup a vegetable? It will clear my conscience immensely. It would be helpful if you could coerce my children to help around the house without demanding payment as if they were the bosses of an organized crime family.
Well, Santa, the buzzer on the dryer is calling and my son saw my feet under the laundry room door. I think he wants his crayon back. Have a safe trip and remember to leave your wet boots by the door and come in and dry off so you don’t catch cold.
Help yourself to cookies on the table but don’t eat too many or leave crumbs on the carpet.
Yours Always,
MOM…
P.S. One more thing…you can cancel all my requests if you can keep my children young enough to believe in Santa.
Merry Christmas to all Mom’s everywhere………and Dad’s too.
It’s that time of year again!!
Did you look up in the sky and see them?
Did you hear their noise?
Did you see the little red caps?
Boy, you have to look really high in the sky as they fly past!
Noooo. It wasn’t Santa and his reindeer; it was the annual Sandhill Crane migration!
Each fall, the sandhill cranes leave their breeding grounds in Alaska or Northern Canada and head south to southern United States or Mexico. Tens of Thousands Sandhill Cranes make this migration. Hendricks County is fortunate to be just 2 hours south of the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area. This wildlife preserve is over 8,000 acres of marshes and wetlands. Each year, the Sandhill Cranes start their migration from Mid September through December and peak around mid November. They stop along the way at harvested fields, wetlands, and marshes.
The Sandhill Cranes are the largest type of cranes in the United States. Although there are 15 different species of crane around the world, only two are native in North America – the Sandhill Crane, and the whooping crane. Standing three to four feet high they have a wing span of six feet. The Sandhill Cranes mate for life, with the pair and their off spring migrating south together. The young cranes grow an inch a day and reach full size in only nine weeks. Cranes are considered the most accomplished dancers in the animal kingdom (the long legs probably help).
According to the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area, the migration count for the morning of 11/27/07 was 18,050 sandhills and 2 whooping crane! Generally early morning is the best time to spot them. This morning I heard the racket first. It sounded like the roar at a football game! It took awhile for them to come into sight, but there they were – high in the sky flying in a V formation. They tend to fly in circles letting the drifters catch up. Great masses of birds so high I was afraid they would tangle with the airplane traffic!
It is good to know that Hendricks County air space is used for more than the just the Indianapolis Airport. So next time you hear an unfamiliar racket high in the sky, look up!
Next time, it may even be reindeer!
Written by Linda Sandlin
Located next door to Saddle Up Riding Stables in Danville.
Bragg’s Saddle Feed & Tack Shop
(317) 745-9159
783 N County Road 200 E,
Danville, IN
IndyGo is the name of the public transit system here in Indianapolis. Thanks to the brilliant colors and Ossip Eye Care, I couldn’t miss this one! 
I know many believe this picture exemplifies all Indiana is. I have lived in places like California and Arizona and the perception of Indiana is………….
I love this picture! Believe it or not, it’s not something I see everyday!
I captured these photos while driving. It really was point and shoot! I wish they all turned out so well!
Tags: Indiana+Farm, Mooresville
We have been deluged lately with rain; it seems like every day for the past 10 days has seen some rainfall. I don’t mind the rain, except the gray clouds make for some lousy pictures. Standing in the rain taking pictures isn’t good for my camera either.
On Tuesday, after the rain, we had a spectacular sunset, which I captured to share with you. I couldn’t get a lighter foreground. I didn’t care though, the sunset showed up beautifully.
