Animals
- A Walk Onthe Wild Side
Week One The trail cameras have been up for only two days now.Hubbs and I took the dogs for an early morning walk into the 100 acre woodsto fetch the SD card from each camera. With excitement and anticipation, we hiked the half mile through light rain to...
- What A Difference A Day Makes
What a wonderful quiet weekend we had...Hubbs and I...and the dogs...and the critters! Saturday was a beautiful day...blue skies with temps in the mid fifties.We set out mid afternoon with Sam and Oakley for a hike in the woods... no jackets! Hiking...
- My Favorite Day
Have I ever told you of my favorite day of the year?You might try and guess...and you would probably say Thanksgiving or Christmas or someother holiday. But no,my most favorite day of the entire year was yesterday...the end of Daylight Savings...turning...
- After The Storm
Thank you all for your well-wishes over the past few days.I took all of that positive energy and sent it onward to those in need...to our eastern coastline communities. While we did receive a lot of rain and wind,we were lucky in that we sustained no...
- Dog Days
There's probably nothing that our dogs love more than the adventure of going for a walk.And especially now after all the rainy days we endured last week.(We received over a foot of rain last week!) (Hickory, our 16 year old partially blind gal, gets...
Animals
100% Chance of Rain
Today's forecast: 100 % chance of showers.
Rain.
Like we need it!
Knowing that today was going to be a rainy day,
I spent yesterday squeezing every last bit of sunshine and blue skies into my psyche.
I worked in the garden.
I hung out laundry.
I cleaned pastures.
I took the dogs for a walk.
We are in the midst of our fall foliage time,
but the colors are not what they usually are.
They are lovely...
but not breathtaking.
I suppose it has something to do with all the rain we received in the past two months.
Many of our trees skipped the color change...
their leaves ending up brown, dry and crunchy.
Others lost their leaves altogether in a couple of wind storms.
It won't be long until the color is gone
and my world will be plunged into that monochromatic brown/grey scheme.
So, while I had the time,
I took in as much of the color as I could.
I walked through the woods...
dry leaves crunching beneath my feet.
Oakley, Sam, and Maddie ran ahead of me down the trail
with their nostrils to the ground,
following the scent of all sorts of wildlife.
A flock of grackles gathered in a patch of nearby hemlock trees,
their loud, repetitive "readle-eek" robbing the woods of its quietude.
I had hoped to catch a few of our white tailed deer herd with my camera.
Walking down the path I felt their eyes upon me
from their safe, thickety hideouts.
Sadly, the only wildlife I encountered were 6 of these lovelies,
circling above
and finally settling to rest in the top of a dead tree...
a rather Halloween-esque picture, don't you think?
A face only a mother could love!
We eventually reached the camp and rested on the front porch for a while,
surveying the pile of wood that Hubbs had transported to the camp.
Amidst all of that hard, dark woody substance
was this delicate, ruffly fungus...
further evidence of the persistent precipitation.
While we were off galavanting in the woods,
our work crew was busy doing this.....
and by the time the afternoon was over,
they had placed almost all of the poles around the barn's perimeter.
With today's rain, however, construction comes to a grinding halt.
- A Walk Onthe Wild Side
Week One The trail cameras have been up for only two days now.Hubbs and I took the dogs for an early morning walk into the 100 acre woodsto fetch the SD card from each camera. With excitement and anticipation, we hiked the half mile through light rain to...
- What A Difference A Day Makes
What a wonderful quiet weekend we had...Hubbs and I...and the dogs...and the critters! Saturday was a beautiful day...blue skies with temps in the mid fifties.We set out mid afternoon with Sam and Oakley for a hike in the woods... no jackets! Hiking...
- My Favorite Day
Have I ever told you of my favorite day of the year?You might try and guess...and you would probably say Thanksgiving or Christmas or someother holiday. But no,my most favorite day of the entire year was yesterday...the end of Daylight Savings...turning...
- After The Storm
Thank you all for your well-wishes over the past few days.I took all of that positive energy and sent it onward to those in need...to our eastern coastline communities. While we did receive a lot of rain and wind,we were lucky in that we sustained no...
- Dog Days
There's probably nothing that our dogs love more than the adventure of going for a walk.And especially now after all the rainy days we endured last week.(We received over a foot of rain last week!) (Hickory, our 16 year old partially blind gal, gets...