Winter is here. We put up a gazebo over the hot tub. Now we can be out in the tub in the rain and snow. I also do not have to shovel the top off. The top is new and we don't want it ruined by weather. I decorated it with lights inside. It is neat. Notice all the wood that is ready for the long cold winter. Craig and I just both had our right hands operated on so we are both very sore and not lifting alot.

I just found a web site for making puzzles of your pictures. Its jigsawPlanet.com Below is a puzzle of mine with my dogs

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Going into fall

Got back from Shane & Kristi's beginning of Aug. we spent 1 week out there. My mom passed away Aug 25 so suddenly. I have just been trying to get back together since then. She is really the last my relatives that give a hoot about me. Now I have just Shane, Kristi, Craig and Helen and Wayne.
My garden did somewhat good. Tomatoes and Asparagus. A few peppers. Pulling the boat in the next week. Time to stack wood. They start delivering in 2 weeks.
I am posting some pictures of out in WA state w/ the kids.

Yard Sale Aftermath

Community yardsale yesterday. Always second sat of May. I had stuff from grams estate and other stuff that needed sorted out and finally do something with it. Craigs mom brought down some stuff too. She came down to help. We ended up making about 130$ and Anna's 2 girls and 2 boys came up for a cook out and to visit. Amish kids. They are so good.

After the kids left and we relaxed it was time to break out the beer. Helen wanted a drink of Craigs and I snapped this picture. She said during the day, if she was younger, she would buy a trike motorcycle. She was wearing my harley davidson hat all day and got a great picture of her. We had fun.

Gardening

Thru later months of winter we started feeding wild turkeys. We had 50 birds a day coming in. 20 large gobblers, the rest hens and young jakes. They were going thru 50 lbs of corn and grain per week. I loved watching them. We quit feeding them early April so they would leave due to an overactive neighbor with gun sights on them. I miss them.

Started a garden yesterday. The day was in the 50's but windy so it was too cold to ride motorcycle and the garden needed digging. I started digging but it was too much for me so I recruited muscle to help. Craig dug while i picked up the soddy grass top and moved it. This week my friend Anna said we can come to her farm to get horse fertilizer and I will work it into the soil every couple days until we can safely plant after the frost. Its still getting down to 30 on some nights. This is the first year that we are putting in a large garden due to prices at stores and bad economy. I plan on tomatoes, for sauce , green peppers, lettuce for salads and cauliflower. Some how I will have to keep the dogs out of the garden when the fertilizer is on it. They love rolling in stuff. Bubbles just started rolling and she was always the princess before. I guess living with a hog like Skipper all these years is finally wearing off on her. I will post garden updates thru the spring and summer.

SUB ZERO TEMPS

Last night it got down in temp to -10 below 0. Of course this morning we had frozen water pipes. Worked and worked heating the line and no go. No cold water at the sink. We have water everywhere else. If the pipes burst, then I am so tired of this every winter, we will move the pipes into the house. Couldn't get the diesel tractor to start to bring in wood so we had to use the truck. We are both so tired of cold and exhausted trying to keep this house running and warm. We need to move to WA state. Shane and Kristi are riding their motorcycles now. I am putting in a picture of Kristi's new bike.

Winter is here

Boy have I been sick. Took a trip to Niagra Falls over Labor day on the motorcycle. Came back and had terrible pain in my back. It turned out to be not one but 3 kidney stones. One did come out but I am still stuck toting 1 around in each kidney. After weeks of testing they put me on a special diet of what I cannot eat anymore. Chocolate and Tea being the main ones. Thats bad. I love both. Then on to the next big health issue. I had a total Hystromecty Oct 15. I am just now getting back on my feet moving around. But still no heavy lifting or staying up long walking. It took alot out of me- like 8 lbs!! And if not for the incision, I feel wonderful. What pain I was in for years before that. You get used to the pain then when you don't have it, you just cannot believe how it got that bad. So, Our first big snow came Nov 20. We got about 8" and its been snowing ever since. At night it got down to 15 to 20 each night. Winter jumped straight into January cold and snow. I hate it, I hate snow and cold. I cannot be outside , cannot ride my motorcycle or be at the fish pond or in the garden. We really need to relocate south. I am working slowly on quilting projects that needed finished up. Pictures coming later.