Hardy, Fall and 3 Babes At A Beach Club

Another beautiful day in the Ozarks with our town looking gorgeous!




And a shot down the side of our place this afternoon looked pretty too ..... We can see this tree down our hall looking out the side door through the carport so we've been watching it evolve into all it's glory ....


It was a little rainy and thunderstormy at times today but we promised Lynda a trip to the Hardy "Beach Club" ..... I dressed first and they copied me ..... how embarrassing .... but we still look pretty sexy don't you think?


Lynda's working on a silk scarf and I finally broke out one of the 30"x30" silk pieces to paint ..... almost done but I may add some stick trees to the scene


Julie .... the 30x30 silk satin is awesome ... but I haven't steamed it yet

There's very good reason for the thumbs up here but I think I'll keep the surprise for another day or two :)


Of course I'm always accepting of anyone wanting to take a guess

The Monster Mash

Starring the usual "creeps" ...

View From The Deck This Morning

Halloween Rap

Our Halloween Rap starring Lea as the Witch, Lynda (Lea's sister) as Frankenstein, Ozzie as The Mummy, Millie as Dracula and me as the DJ (of course). Don't wear it out :)

Sorry that it's slow loading but it's High Definition so it's a hog, just pause it a bit ....

Burls, Cauldrons and Fly Fishing

The guy who owns the shop where we sell our art gave Lea 3 wood burls yesterday. One was really heavy and Mark helped us get it in our van but it was up to us it get it out (we have that problem a lot). We got it out and it rolled down the hill but Lea was able to roll it back up and take the power washer to all 3 .....

Lea will turn these into beautiful works of art

Our "cauldron" is working great ....


And we've started decorating for Halloween .....


Can never seem to get enough Silk painting .... now Lynda's hooked :)


We went down to the river around 5pm this afternoon. Lynda did watercolor ....


While Lea and I Fly Fished ....


Did you notice the purple sun ray on Lea .... cool huh

And yes .... we each caught a fish and let it go ....

The Rope

Yesterday we crossed the Mississippi river into Memphis to pick up Lea's sister, Lynda, from the airport .....


The dogs thought they were going to sleep all day but we took them with us ....


Saw Elvis on a Fire Truck on the way home ....


So here's a self portrait shot of the 3 of us down at the river ....


And the star of the post today is "The Rope" .... and I'll end it with that :) love the rope

Wood, Kitchens and Bathrooms

It's really feeling like Autumn now with the cold nights and cooler days. Still, next week is supposed to be in the mid 70's for highs and high 30's for lows. The leaves are just starting to show hints of turning color. The farmers are setting up their pumpkin stands on the sides of the roads and we're loving every minute of it. Bought a huge, and very heavy pumpkin the other day on our way back from a Lowes run to Mountain Home so you should be seeing that come up in the blog soon.

We've got the chain saws buzzing and we're starting on cutting up all the slash on the sides of our property. If we're lucky we just might be able to get enough wood cut for the winter without having to buy any. Here's what we were able to cut in a couple of afternoons ....

This will have to be full and then some but it's a start ...


And some for the "cauldron" ....


And although Millie is displeased about not having her own personal patio anymore she still enjoys the area ....


We didn't care much for this sink in our kitchen .....


So we replaced it with this one .....


The dishwasher that was in the house didn't work and after much back and forth thinking on whether we should replace it or not, we finally decided to do it so here's a shot of the sink and the new dishwasher ....


Thanks to Diana and Nancy for turning us onto James .... a great plumber/handyman who did the sink and dishwasher install in 4 hours. Next up for him is some needed roof work .... time to fix those little leaks :)

Lea and I are still working on that darn pink bathroom. We spent over a week getting the carpet adhesive off the tile floor so now there's no way that we're not going to love and embrace the white and pink tiled floor :) Our challenge now is to do whatever it takes to the cabinets and countertop to try and subdue the pinkness of the room .... yea right. Ok so we stripped all the paint off the cabinets, cut a new countertop and cut in the sink hole yesterday. Today we'll mount the sink and plumb it, paint the cabinets black and then later this week we should be getting the black pebble stone we ordered to cover the countertop with ..... whew!

So here's what it looks like this morning .....


We'll see what it looks like this afternoon if we don't get sidetracked into doing something fun instead :)