Saturday, July 24, 2021

No Longer Under Fire Warning

 We are no long under a fire level. There is still lots of smoke in the area depending on where the wind is blowing as there are interior fires to the west and that large fire in Oregon is south of us. Also west of us on the other side of Idaho in Montana. So smoke. The road home today.

Just normal work here and also rearranged the living room. The first time in like four years because of how things have gone health wise. Very nice for a change. All vacuumed and cleaned.








Friday, July 16, 2021

Yard Cleaned Up From Tree and Wide Area Fire

It took about 2 weeks to get the wood and branches cleaned up and out of the front yard.  That included days we didn't work on it and Sundays off.





Blessed it hadn't come down on it's own with the rot inside.

Clean up.

The sun in the smoke filled skies. They lowered the danger today back down to level 1.







Friday, July 9, 2021

July some old maples coming down

The Electric company came up on July 1 to take down down of the branches on our 90 year old trees that have been going bad and becoming a danger. Especially going over the electric lines to the house. One is down and many branches on another.




Dave cutting up the down branches and tree.

 

One of the great grands was here from 1 July to 4 July.

Monday, June 14, 2021

June Wow.

Okay the year is just about half over.

We have to replant some of the garden but the potatoes are doing just fine.

Hubby has been trying to get some of the things he wants to do outside done and that is taking shape little by little. The chicken coop is cleaned again so another item off the to do list.

 Always mowing to do, the 2 front wheels on the riding mower had to be replaced, couldn't keep air in them but for one mowing. Come to find out they were cracked with age. Some of the work like around the creek is hand mowing.


This is pretty much a every morning visitor.

The visiting mules are most always waiting for their treat in the morning. Peach is on the right and won't even look at you until she has her treat. Then she will grace you with eating hers. Stella will grunt and make all kinds of noises at you until she gets hers.

The well equipment had to be replaced, ack, ack, but was and had been giving us fits and trouble for a couple of years or more. We replaced a control but that didn't do it. The well head was 45 years old and the well guy said that was good use.

These 2 were bedded down up by the well house.

This was the inside of the well house.

                            Now the inside. We will wrap the pipe later for winter again.

 The 45 year old well pipe was a glued together mess.

Sunset the other evening.

                                        June daytime moon.











Saturday, May 1, 2021

May 2021 Garden tilled.

 A son came up on 30 April and helped rototill some and so the garden area we are going to use is ready for planting.

28 April 2021, leaf buds on the lilacs.


30 April 2021 Midway

Barrowing the tiller.

30 April sunset

Our good friend Jim Mc died this afternoon at 4:50 PM. He went peacefully in his sleep. 










Friday, April 9, 2021

April Snow/Rain days

 Our weather has been going back and forth. Cool, warm, cold, snow, hail, rain and back to snow.

This was yesterday morning again. It had put down an inch overnight, which wasn't bad at all it was all pretty much melted by mid-afternoon. :) Supposed to do this again tomorrow as well. But we have a day off from it today.


Hubby has been fixing, putting back  and etc. from what happened to the yard over the winter and the tractor taking out sod.

I knitted a pair of slippers for something different.

I have been working on family history, sending and receiving old pictures from cousins for hubby's and my side of the family. Really nice.

This is the Allen Horton Foster family hubby's side. Cousin Allen was a farmer and was born 8 April 1838 Hopewell, Bedford, PA. His wife Harriett F. Fuller born in 1847 Mason, Grundy, IL. They married in IL. and raised their family of 8 children all tole. 












Tuesday, March 9, 2021

 We are down in the way of snow quite a bit around the creek.


Snowed Sat. the 6th of Feb.

Latest mitts I knitted

Not much else but work going on around here and doing family history, etc.