Inside ....
And Outside ....
Taking the dogs for a walk is really an awesome experience now with the clean, cold, crisp air and the leaves on the road .... it feels so good and the dogs love it! Here's what our street looks like right now ....
Friday, November 5, 2010
Cold
It got cold ..... 27 degrees tonight ..... brrrrrr .... but I'm prepared!
Inside ....
And Outside ....
Taking the dogs for a walk is really an awesome experience now with the clean, cold, crisp air and the leaves on the road .... it feels so good and the dogs love it! Here's what our street looks like right now ....
Inside ....
And Outside ....
Taking the dogs for a walk is really an awesome experience now with the clean, cold, crisp air and the leaves on the road .... it feels so good and the dogs love it! Here's what our street looks like right now ....
Thursday, November 4, 2010
A Post A Day Challenge
I really let my postings slip so I've decided that I will make a daily post even if it's just one picture or just one video or just one wise statement. Now we'll see how long I can do this :)
Fall is fading as the wind is blowing all the leaves off of the trees ..... it is so beautiful I can hardly stand it. Here's a couple of photos ....
You all know that's the view from our deck but here's a pretty little tree at Lake Cherokee about 1/2 mile from our house.
Fall is fading as the wind is blowing all the leaves off of the trees ..... it is so beautiful I can hardly stand it. Here's a couple of photos ....
You all know that's the view from our deck but here's a pretty little tree at Lake Cherokee about 1/2 mile from our house.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Just In Time For Halloween
The Birds!
Shot this about an hour ago off our deck .... very spooky. Not sure what kind they were ... hawks? .... vultures? .... black birds? .... it was pretty dark but they were very big and very quiet. This is a most unusual occurrence ... at least for us .... and it was amazing to watch them. This video doesn't do justice to the poetry of motion these birds displayed but here it is anyway ....
Shot this about an hour ago off our deck .... very spooky. Not sure what kind they were ... hawks? .... vultures? .... black birds? .... it was pretty dark but they were very big and very quiet. This is a most unusual occurrence ... at least for us .... and it was amazing to watch them. This video doesn't do justice to the poetry of motion these birds displayed but here it is anyway ....
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Screen Door, Halloween, Stone and Sydny
I've never built or hung a screen door before but the outside door to "the cave" is an odd size and I can't find one to fit so I had to make one. I surprised myself on this one ... it's sturdy, tightly screened, hinged well so it swings easy, fits and latches .... wow.
"The Cave" is the dirt floored basement that I make the PEG'S in and even though I'd open the screened window and close the door to the finished basement, the resin odor would still get into Lea's shop and even up into the house. I tried just opening the cave door but all kinds of critters kept coming in so I really needed this screen door. Everyone in the household is much happier now.
So I finished decorating for Halloween last week (inside and out). Here's some shots of the outside ....
I told Lea that I've been getting lots of emails requesting more Sydny videos so she's promised to do one this week. For now all I have is this shot I got of her last night while she was coming out of this cool rock cave that Lea made for her .... she's sooooo cute and sweet .... we really love her. Oh .... it's kinda red because she has a red heat lamp. She also has a UVB light that's on during the day so she gets vitamin D to keep her shell growing strong. I actually stuck my hand down in our water meter hole yesterday to try and catch some crickets for her .... they're hard to catch and all I got was icked out. No shots of that :)
Here's the latest on the pink bathroom ....
We dug through our rock collection and threw some into the mix. And .... Yes .... we're regrouting all the white grout in the pink tiles to black. This whole pink bathroom thing is really crazy and I'm convinced it will never go away and be a never ending ongoing project ..... next week purple walls! OMG! What are we doing?? I'm writing that with a smile on my face because it's really fun when you don't have anyone telling you that you can't do that. WE JUST LOVE BEING ORPHANS!
"The Cave" is the dirt floored basement that I make the PEG'S in and even though I'd open the screened window and close the door to the finished basement, the resin odor would still get into Lea's shop and even up into the house. I tried just opening the cave door but all kinds of critters kept coming in so I really needed this screen door. Everyone in the household is much happier now.
So I finished decorating for Halloween last week (inside and out). Here's some shots of the outside ....
I told Lea that I've been getting lots of emails requesting more Sydny videos so she's promised to do one this week. For now all I have is this shot I got of her last night while she was coming out of this cool rock cave that Lea made for her .... she's sooooo cute and sweet .... we really love her. Oh .... it's kinda red because she has a red heat lamp. She also has a UVB light that's on during the day so she gets vitamin D to keep her shell growing strong. I actually stuck my hand down in our water meter hole yesterday to try and catch some crickets for her .... they're hard to catch and all I got was icked out. No shots of that :)
Here's the latest on the pink bathroom ....
We dug through our rock collection and threw some into the mix. And .... Yes .... we're regrouting all the white grout in the pink tiles to black. This whole pink bathroom thing is really crazy and I'm convinced it will never go away and be a never ending ongoing project ..... next week purple walls! OMG! What are we doing?? I'm writing that with a smile on my face because it's really fun when you don't have anyone telling you that you can't do that. WE JUST LOVE BEING ORPHANS!
Friday, October 22, 2010
Bathroom, Firewood, Bike Path and Colors Update
We pretty much have all the adhesive off the pink bathroom floor but it still needs work. We've moved on to stoning the countertop. Today Lea will seal the stone and by tomorrow or so we should be able to grout it .... black grout of course. We've also decided to paint the walls .... again .... probably a dark purple. It's like .... nothing we do could make it worse :()
I've resumed cutting wood since the only people we found to buy wood from broke down just short of making it to our house so we took it as a "sign" and I'm now continuing to cut our own wood. What you see in this carport photo is about 1/2 of what I have cut .... we have wood storage down by the basement porch entrance too. There's sooooo much wood on our property .... mostly oak, hickory and aromatic cedar .... it's all downed trees just laying on the sides of what was cleared by the previous owner to create the view we have.
Yesterday was our day to go to the big town (Mountain Home) and do our PetCo and Lowes shopping. We took the dogs with us because it's now cool enough for them to stay in the car while we shop. On the way home we stopped to walk the dogs at the park in Salem Arkansas which is about 1/2 hour from home. It was an interesting surprise because you can't see much from the road and we've passed this park maybe 50 times and didn't realize that there's a walking/bike path that goes around a lake. We've been looking for place to take our bikes since you can't ride them on the streets around our place (way too narrow and dangerous).
Last but least for this morning is my "fall color" report ..... here's the what we were looking at while drinking coffee and eating cheerios this morning ...
I've resumed cutting wood since the only people we found to buy wood from broke down just short of making it to our house so we took it as a "sign" and I'm now continuing to cut our own wood. What you see in this carport photo is about 1/2 of what I have cut .... we have wood storage down by the basement porch entrance too. There's sooooo much wood on our property .... mostly oak, hickory and aromatic cedar .... it's all downed trees just laying on the sides of what was cleared by the previous owner to create the view we have.
Yesterday was our day to go to the big town (Mountain Home) and do our PetCo and Lowes shopping. We took the dogs with us because it's now cool enough for them to stay in the car while we shop. On the way home we stopped to walk the dogs at the park in Salem Arkansas which is about 1/2 hour from home. It was an interesting surprise because you can't see much from the road and we've passed this park maybe 50 times and didn't realize that there's a walking/bike path that goes around a lake. We've been looking for place to take our bikes since you can't ride them on the streets around our place (way too narrow and dangerous).
Last but least for this morning is my "fall color" report ..... here's the what we were looking at while drinking coffee and eating cheerios this morning ...
Sunday, October 17, 2010
The Weekend
We left the dogs home with their kitty on Saturday ....
And went for a drive out to Martins Creek but first we stopped at the park in Hardy to see what was was going on. There was an arts and crafts show (yes.... we knew about it but couldn't get our s**t together to do it) and a VW car show ....
If this one had been for sale we probably would have emptied out our bank account to buy it ...
We moved on to Martins Creek road (about 10 miles from home) and drove about as far into the hills as we dared and then came back .... we just love driving on the back dirt roads into the hills. We stopped at Martins Creek Watermill on the way home ....
Today .... being Sunday and all ..... was nature hike day with the dogs. So here it is in all it's 9+ minute glory :)
And went for a drive out to Martins Creek but first we stopped at the park in Hardy to see what was was going on. There was an arts and crafts show (yes.... we knew about it but couldn't get our s**t together to do it) and a VW car show ....
If this one had been for sale we probably would have emptied out our bank account to buy it ...
We moved on to Martins Creek road (about 10 miles from home) and drove about as far into the hills as we dared and then came back .... we just love driving on the back dirt roads into the hills. We stopped at Martins Creek Watermill on the way home ....
Today .... being Sunday and all ..... was nature hike day with the dogs. So here it is in all it's 9+ minute glory :)
Friday, October 15, 2010
Thumbs Up!
Lynda and John are packing up and moving from Huntington Beach Ca. to Cherokee Village! Lynda bought this really cute yellow house on 2 lots sitting across the street from Lake Navajo and across the lake from Diana and Nancy. What doesn't show in the photos is the second lot that looks like a park in the forest. Lynda is an artist so in this environment she won't have to go far from home to paint. The house also has an attached garage with lots of windows that will be perfect for her studio. We're so happy for her! Way to go Lynda! The thumbs up photo was taken about 5 seconds after she got off the phone finding out she got the house.
The leaves are falling and the colors are still beautiful. We went for a little hike near our house next to Otter Creek which is pretty dry right now but as you can see in this photo .....
it carries a lot of water at times
But for now it's really fun to walk around in ...
With just a trickle of water running & sounding so pretty .... I must take my field recorder and record the sound for you next time I go.
We took Lynda to Memphis yesterday so she could go home and pack. It's a long day so we take the "kids" with us. Millie held onto Lynda almost the whole way there ...
Yes ... I took this while driving :)
We stopped at the "Turtle Creek" mall in Jonesboro on our way back, it's about an hour and 15 minutes from home so we don't go to the mall as often as we used to but it does make it special.
The place is huge with all our favorite stores ....
Put your Sombrero back on get your taco off the floor Bobbie ..... you know the real reason we stopped at the mall was because I wanted to go here ....
Because I love to decorate for Halloween!
Boo! :)
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