Lynda & John Arrive In Cherokee Village

First off .... here's the sunrise this morning .... it's a little hard to see but there was a low lying fog layer along the river ....


Poor Lea's been sick with a cold for the past few days, she hasn't been too happy about me taking photos of her during her sick days so in this one I cropped her out but she and the dogs were all cuddled up with tons of blankets on the couch .... here's what I could show :)


And last for today is another "home movie" .... I shot the drive down Lynda's road to her house yesterday (we went over there to air it out and do a little cleaning) and then our meeting up with them today at the Sinclair station in Cherokee Village which is the U-Haul rental place. John needed to return the car trailer so he could back the U-Haul up their driveway. No video of this but we were like a caravan from there driving down the road .... It was me in the lead, followed by Lynda, followed by Lea driving John's truck and then John in the U-Haul. Tomorrow will be the unpacking of the U-Haul day ... oh boy :)

Mr. Horrell's Furniture Store

Lea wanted a chest of drawers so we went from the park to the best furniture store in the county .....

A Walk In The Park

We took the dogs with us to town today and stopped at Loberg Park in Hardy for a little walk .... couldn't resist posting the video I took. It's over 9 minutes long and there's even a "Part 2" coming tomorrow .... so don't say you weren't warned :)

Rain and Cardinals in the Dogwood

We have a Dogwood tree in the front yard and right now it's lost most of it's leaves but it's loaded with red berries. For a while the Squirrels were eating the berries and they'd get kinda drunk like on them .... now it's the birds feasting on the berries. The tree is right out of my studio window so it's really a pleasant distraction to watch them.

Cardinals are hard to photograph because they have camera radar and fly away the moment you start to raise your camera but Lea braved the rain this morning and was able to catch a few seconds of the elusive Cardinal .... if you turn up the volume on your computer, you might be able to hear the rain ....

Some Assembly Required

The sunrise this morning ....


And then the big truck arrived with a big heavy box on this pallet and the zen like day was forever changed ....

We pulled as much out as possible to reduce the weight

Dragged the box with a cable around it through the leaves to "the cave" entrance" (easiest way with heavy stuff into the basement)

Laid some of the stuff on the basement porch

Dragged the heavy box through "the cave" entrance into the basement and squeezed it through between a wall and the stairs...


Started laying the stuff out .....



And by the time the sun was setting we had it put together ....


I bet you knew what it was from the very beginning :)

Saturday Morning

Yesterday ..... Saturday morning ..... the dogs and cat are still trying to sleep in, Alex was still covered in his cage, Sydney was buried, a college football game just started (Ole Miss and Tennessee) and Lea was the only one hard at work. I had just finished exercising and decided to pick up my iPhone and do a quick walk through .... here's what I found ....


Hopefully YouTube won't flag this because of the background music ... they have pretty tight copyright scanning robots .... we'll see.

The Birds 2

I'm totally fascinated by these vultures ..... on the ground they're so clumsy and kinda ugly (although I really hate to use that word because ugly is in the eye of the beholder) but in the air they're so graceful and beautiful. This is the second time that the gathering flock flew around our place and the second video of them. So this won out over the video I was going to post .... lucky you :)


Hitchcock would be proud :)