So we had our oil changed at Walmart the other day and when they were done and I was paying they told me that our battery tested bad and we needed a new one. So this morning we had to go to the dump to recycle the cardboard boxes that we took out of Lynny's garage and were occupying way too much space in our car (we missed the Lions club recycle hours on Wednesday by 15 minutes). So we figured we could go to the dump recycle center and then go back to Walmart to get our battery ..... but .... we got a flat tire after coming off the dirt road to the dump. I've never been much of a AAA person but it just so happens that we joined before the moving trip out here. Wow ... it came in handy .... stuck on a lonely road with a flat. Anyway the roadside guy put on that little bicycle tire looking thing and we were on our way. We really needed new tires so we went to a local tire shop where they use men to change tires and dogs to check under the car ...... really .... I have proof ....
So we went into Hardy today to visit a couple of our favorite shop owners .... one that writes me checks and the other that we write checks to ... the second being The Hardy Pottery Shop. We wanted some nice stuff for "the pink bathroom" since ..... it's pretty much done! We ended up getting a couple nice throw rugs and a couple of clocks. Here's the one I got for "the blue bathroom" .... It's a fish and it has 2 pendulums .... 1 is a worm and the other is a sailboat (which is the one that's on there now)
I should have shot a close-up of the one in "the pink bathroom" but you can see it in this shot that I did to show off our progress .... It's a turtle! I'll shoot a better one soon ... I know you can hardly wait :)
So now that everything's cleaned up in there ..... I'm ready for a bath ..... I've been waiting a long time to take a bath in that bathroom ..... so tonights the night ..... and when I'm done ..... I'm gonna watch the first movie on this :) "The Egg and I"
And from my "studio" ,,,, Millie will hang out in any room that music is playing .... she likes my guitar playing ok but really loves Lea playing the drums
You may remember a few weeks ago that a Hardy shop owner gave Lea a couple of tree burls .... I posted some pictures of her power washing them off ..... well .... here's an update showing her carving one of them .... it's amazing .... it looks like a giant leaf!
And the greatest news of all ..... Lynda's house closed on Tuesday!!!!! John and her will be here next week! We went by the house today to start doing some cleaning for her .... won't need much, it was left in nice shape. So here ya go Lynny .... here's what it looked like today with a lot less leaves on the trees ..... it's such a cute house and the property is soooooo beautiful!
I made Toll House cookies this evening and they just cooled off enough to grab a hold of one .... if I could pass it through cyberspace to you ..... I would .... but I can't ..... so I'm going to eat yours :)
So we painted the "pink bathroom" dark purple, it almost looks black unless the light hits it right. We also regrouted the tile black and recaulked the bathtub (no ..... silly .... not black .... it's white). So here's a small section .... once it's all cleaned up in there I'll shoot a picture of as much of the bathroom as I can get in a shot.
At some point during the installing of the rock, one popped out so instead of replacing it with a rock .... I built a "PEG" into the hole .....
Every time we walk into that bathroom it gets more bizarre ..... we just can't seem to let it be .... but it will have good energy! :)
So Halloween is over and our yard was a HUGE success with the kids ..... they loved it! So now I'm starting to think about holiday lights ..... this is going to be fun. I know for sure that I'm going to invest in LED's to save energy and I'm going to put it lot's of hooks so I can hang them easier in the upcoming years. There's a website that sells lots of lights http://www.christmaslights.com/ so what I can't get at Walmart I'll have to get there.
So far here's what I like at Walmart
Yes that's a picture of the box on the shelf ..... they had their holiday stuff out the day after Halloween ..... kinda early but it's got me excited so that's ok :)
Here's the view from the deck this morning .... the golf course has been frozen every morning for the past few days ....
So yep .... it's cold but so far it's only cold at night and early morning. It was 27 day before yesterday, 32 yesterday and 32 this morning .... but .... it was 72 this afternoon! I love this weather!!!!!!
Our fireplace heatilator system works really good. There's 2 vents into the family room, 1 into the living room and 1 into the "pink bathroom" .... so .... we need to keep ourselves well stocked up on wood. This is me today looking like a mountain woman heading off into the woods with my little chain saw to cut downed wood ....
And when I was all done ..... Millie gave me a big hug and bunches of really wet and sloppy kisses ....
Kinda reminds me of this .... Millie loves Ellie! Pass that on :)
I recently came upon a container full of crystals that Lea and I dug up last summer on a mountain top in Nevada. It reminded me that Lea made a video of our day trip to Crystal Peak, so since I'm doing a post a day and I've been spending my entire Sunday working on my website (which I did manage to get a PayPal shopping cart up and working) I thought I'd post that video. Bobbie would say .... "I did nothing interesting today" which may be true ..... but if you dig around in your closet a bit you can always find something interesting to share .....
Last night, during feeding hour when no one was watching after the baby, Sydny managed to get on top of her Flintstone house (that Lea built). Problem was .... she couldn't get down. Lea came in for the rescue and Sydny hurried to get on her hand and off the roof. All was captured in Turtlevision for your Sydny viewing pleasure :) She's soooooo cute, we love her ..... and she loves Lea! And just in case you're wondering ..... all that yucky looking stuff in the green dish is Sydnys food .... it's grated yellow squash, worms and shrimp, sprinkled with reptile vitamins ...... yummmmmmmm!
Today we made our over the border booze run into Missouri and stopped at Mammoth Spring to eat our Sonic Burgers and take the dogs for a "nature hike" before heading home. It's such an incredible place ... so beautiful and so magical .... we love it there and it's only 18 miles from home. Mammoth Spring is a very large spring and is the largest spring in the state of Arkansas and the 2nd largest spring within the Ozark Plateau region. Rainfall in southern Missouri seeps into the water table and flows through a vast system of passages and cavities. These cavities form a main channel and the groundwater reaches the surface at the town of Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. The emerging water forms a 10 acre spring pool that drains over a high stone dam. The spring generates a flow of 344 cubic feet per second. The water emerges at a constant 58 °. The spring itself cannot be viewed at the Mammoth Spring site because its mouth is more than 70 ft below the surface of the large spring pool. The spring's large volume of water travels a few hundred feet before merging with the Warm Fork of the Spring River to form the Spring River headwaters. The Spring River is one of the best float rivers in the nation.
Here's Lea today with the girls doing their best pose in front of the spot that the water emerges ... note the white dog poop bag hanging out of Lea's pocket .... seems we picked up a habit that's hard to break :)
And a fact sign .... you can read it if you click on it to make it bigger
And last .... a photo I took on another day. It shows the water spilling out of the pond and becoming the Spring River ....
Don't worry .... there won't be a quiz on this later :)
