Wednesday September 26th

Backyard, Middle Woods and Garden Area

(way in the back, through the woods)

Monday I went to Conway to bring the fold-up wheelchair to the Hospice office. It was sad but hopefully someone needy will enjoy it.
While I was in town I stopped at Lowes and picked up paint, a chainsaw blade, tin snips, and a stovepipe cleaning brush. Obviously I have some fun stuff ahead of me. Ha.
Yesterday I started painting the living room/kitchen floor. Moved everything to the center and painted the rest. 2 coats. It's been raining since yesterday afternoon so this morning the paint is sticky. Guess I'll have to wait another day to move furniture back and paint the middle. Ugh.

It's getting to be that time of year - last week I set up the corn feeders and sunday evening there were eight deer in the middle woods and the garden area. One looked like a nice buck but it was getting dark so I couldn't tell for sure. Planting the winter grass in the garden is on my to-do-soon list. Don't want the critters to go hungry over the winter.

Sunday September 23rd

Floyd's Pond

I meant to check in sooner than this, time just gets away from me. Not much interesting going on just general day to day stuff.

Oh, Floyds place is officially for sale now -
http://www.idxvow.com/cgi-bin/pman/brockre/vlm.cgi?view=res.cgi&show=yes&id100=847
Anyone want to be my neighbor? :::smile:::

Late every afternoon I take Tux for a walk, last sunday we walked to Floyd's pond and it just looked perfect for fishing so monday I brought my fishing pole and fished awhile. Brought home eight nice Brim and threw back at least twice that many small fish, brim, goggle-eye, and bass.

Speaking of walks, the other day the girls (Coco - 11, and Cheyenne - 14) were hopping up and down like puppies so I let them come too. We went down to the garden to check the fruit trees. The dogs were milling around the corn feeder and I was standing at the edge of the garden looking over the clear cut. I looked down and not 10 feet away was a Doe deer laying in the brush staring right at me! She must have had a baby with her or she would have left when she heard us coming. So I called the dogs away and we went back to the house. I didn't want them seeing and chasing her.

Thursday September 13th

I've been trying to decide what to do with the blog.
I guess I'm going to keep it since everyone already has the address and it's a great way to share pictures. (If anyone wants to save any of the pictures on your own computer just right-click then select 'save as'). And if anyone wants to keep up with my doings they can check here, but it won't be daily updates - I just don't have that much interesting to say.
In the last month I've mostly been getting things in order after months of neglect. Yardwork, housework, paperwork. Still not caught up.
Went to Louisiana for a week to visit family, got back last wednesday night. It stormed all thursday, friday, and saturday and rained all sunday and monday. We desperately needed it, everything outside was suffering from heat and drought. Since tuesday the weather has been perfect, low 60s at night and low 80s daytime. Hard to believe winter is just around the corner already.