Sunday August 9th

Pics from the river last week.........

Coolness.

Me and Tux

Monique and Brandi

Brandi and Tux

Since last post I've had more company, got the 4-wheeler fixed, got the mower fixed, caught up on all the yardwork......Today I'm cleaning and packing so I can leave in the morning for Louisiana.

Monday August 3rd

A few more pics from the Vegas trip......

Pierre and Estelle

Monique and Liz

Monique

Eric, Me, Monique

Cheryl and Estelle

I'm still super busy running back and forth and trying to keep up. Came home friday before last with Monique and Brandi, we had a great time hanging out at Buffallo River, even went canoeing. (pics next post). They left last wednesday. Since then I had to put Cheyenne down, destroyed the deck on the mower, and have been trying to get my place back in order so I can leave again.

Friday July 17th

Boy am I behind! It's been a hectic couple of months.

Since last post I went home to a disaster of electrical problems. Seems lightening struck my power line, messed up the transformer, and I was getting way more juice than I was supposed to. Half my electrical stuff was fried and it took a week to get things back to normal. Also a critter chewed through the wiring to the well so I had no water till I fixed that. Thank God my house didn't burn down! Spent another week getting every thing else caught up and then came back to Louisiana and the very next day.............

Hopped in an RV with 10 other people and went to LAS VEGAS! Talk about FUN! One of the best trips ever!

Half the crew....Me, Monique, Cheryl, Estelle, Liz

We left a day early and came back a day late, 9 days total. Ha. More pics when I'm back on high speed internet.

Anyway, came back from Vegas, worked a week in louisiana then went home with my carpenter cousin Russell and his wife Cynthia to finish up the last of my construction projects. (We did! YAY!). They stayed a week and I spent the next week painting mostly - and mowing. Then I came back to Louisiana last friday and I'm here till next friday.

When I go back home I'm bringing Brandi with me (my 9 year old niece), the following week the rest of the family will come up. The following week I'll be back in Louisiana.

Whew........

Friday May 15th

I'm in Louisiana doing some work on the farm. Been here since last friday and I'll stay until the 25th or so. I've had internet problems, that's why no updates but I think it's fixed now.
While I was home there were storms for the entire two weeks and then forecasts for more storms the next 3-4 days. Ugh! My nerves can't take much more of that!
Right before I left Tux was barking at something in the yard - it was a copperhead snake. Eeeeek! Glad I killed it before it bit him.

Wednesday April 29th

Some pics I took about a week and a half ago of my middle woods project. The cleaned up parts and the not cleaned yet parts. Still lots to do....

Not clean
Clean

Not clean

Clean

The "Garden" is looking nice. Fruit trees are finally growing.

Tuesday April 28th

I'm still doing spring clean-up when it's not raining. Nothing exciting but I'm making progress and the place is looking pretty good. Just got home last night from a trip to Louisiana to visit family. It was nice seeing everyone! Time to get back to work though........if the rain ever ends!

The little bird that builds her nest in the porch eaves every spring is getting much better at it.

Inbetween storms a couple of weeks ago the sun came out for a few minutes and so did this great rainbow!

Saturday April 4th

Nothing exciting going on, I've been busy with spring yard clean-up inbetween spring storms. Things are turning green! Yay!

I saw five deer the other morning which is surprising since the feeder has been empty for over a month.

(Pay no attention to how trashed my middle woods are - It's next on my cleanup list. Believe it or not, it was looking nice just a few months ago! Ice storms make a mess. Ugh.)

Saturday March 28th

Gerald & Mom

It was great spending time with Mom, Jack, and Gerald. The trip was way too short and I'm home now after 3 days (27 hours) of hell drive. Bad weather, bumper to bumper interstate traffic, wrecks....sheesh. Glad that's over.

Since I've been home we've had more storms but it looks like they're cleared out now. Hopefully we'll have nice enough weather for me to catch up around here. My place is a total mess after 3 weeks of neglect.

Gerald & Me

Gerald, Me, & Jack

Mom

Tuesday March 17th

Yikes! They don't have these in Arkansas!

I can't believe I've been here over a week now and less than a week left before I head home. Here's a few pics, above is one of the iguanas that stalk the back patio. I had no idea they swim! When you walk up to them they jump in the water. Below is Mom's house.

And the view from the dock..........

Saturday March 14th

I've been in Fort Lauderdale since monday evening but haven't taken any pics yet. Here's one of Brandi and Tux for now.
I'm loving the weather - blue skies, sunshine and 80 degrees. What a difference from home. Last time I checked it was 31 and sleeting. Ick! I'm sick of winter and glad I'm missing it!
More later when I remember to take pictures. Ha.

Thursday March 5th

Looks like I skipped the entire month of February posting. It's just WINTER. Nothing interesting to write about and nothing new to take pics of. I don't know if anyone reads this or cares anyway, so I don't have a lot of incentive. Ha.

As usual at this time of year I have serious cabin fever and can't wait for spring. The daffodils and crocus are popping up so that's a good sign!

Cheyenne hasn't been doing well, having trouble getting around and some days couldn't even get up. I thought it might be time to have her put down so I took her to the vet last week to find out. He said she's in the best health of any 15 year old he's seen! Turned out she has one bad hip is all. He gave her a prescription for anti-inflamatories and since then she's been prancing around like a puppy again. Amazing!

In other news, I'm heading out in the morning for Fort Lauderdale, Florida to spend some time with Mom and Jack. Hopefully I'll have some interesting pics soon :)

January 30th, 2009

We had an ice storm this week. Pics are from a break in the weather tuesday afternoon. Tuesday night we had much more ice and the power went out. Wednesday was too dangerous to get out and about because trees and power lines were snapping.

Yesterday (thursday) we started to thaw and ice chunks were falling out of the trees like rain! I'm very fortunate to have power back already. In the northern part of the state 230,000 still without and they're saying it'll be weeks till it's all fixed.

January 15th, 2009

Fifteen days into the new year and this is my first post! There's just nothing interesting going on and nothing interesting to take photos of. It's winter. Right now we're having a cold front, 1p.m and it's 18 degrees. Tonight expected to be somewhere between 3 and 8. Brrrr! Me and the dogs are staying in the house where it's toasty warm with the woodstove going.

I found someone willing to cut up my downed trees for firewood so on the good weather days we've been doing that. Here's a pic down in the garden from a month ago....

And then about 2 weeks ago.........

Since then we've cut up a few more - only 10 or so to go - yay!

Merry Christmas

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Thursday December 18th

Home Sweet Frozen Home

Looks like snow - but it's not. It's frozen sleet. When you walk on it, you walk ON it and don't even leave a footprint.

Icy!

Tux wants to play.

We were supposed to thaw out yesterday - and didn't. Today it's just starting to thaw into a nice muddy mess. Ha.

Nothing else new to report, lots of projects on hold till the weather clears up.

Sunday December 7th

A couple more pics from the yard. The turkeys were last monday, the deer about 3 weeks ago.

Forgot to mention in yesterdays post how nice it was to have Men Who Do Things around for a few days. They inspected my roof, put up a shelf, fried a turkey (yum!), fixed the trailer tongue, installed a bamboo shade on the porch, fried shrimp and frog legs (yum!), cleaned a deer, and assorted other handy things I can't remember offhand.

Saturday December 6th

Brandi on Pulpit Rock

Sorry about the lack of posts in the last 4 weeks. It's been hunting season. I managed a doe for freezer meat, that's all. (Still have the Christmas hunt dec 26, 27, and 28 to look for the big buck). Besides that I haven't had any new pictures and besides that I was getting ready for company for Thanksgiving. I had six people for five days. Monique, her husband Roy, daughter Brandi, mom Velma, brother Russell, and his wife Cynthia. Of course I forgot to take pics except when we hiked saturday afternoon.

Monique, Brandi & Roy

Brandi went hunting with me thursday and friday and really surprised me with how quiet and patient she could be. Even though we didn't see anything, she didn't get discouraged. Saturday she hunted with uncle Russell and they got a small buck so that was great. Wouldn't you know it, the BIG buck was seen from the living room window by the non hunters friday afternoon! Ha!

We had tons of fun, tons of food, and a great time. The weather had been miserable, cold, windy, and rainy but cleared up for the visit with sunny 55-60 degree days. It's back to cold and windy now. Ugh. Yesterday the HIGH was 38.

Dena & Tux

Saturday November 8th

Opening morning of hunting season.

I had a hectic and frustrating week so didn't have my gear together to go out hunting this morning. I'll go later today. Looks like the view from the house was better anyway - I had 3 deer right outside the window! (A doe and 2 babies) Yesterday evening there were 8, also does and babies, but it was too dark to get any pics.

Saturday November 1st

Fall view from the back yard

Nothing new to report, just thought I'd check in because it's been over a week. We had our first freeze already, last monday and tuesday nights. But weather is gorgeous now with highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s. Lots of does and yearling deer coming to the yard feeder, sometimes they come right into the yard. Yesterday morning one was about 10 feet from the living room window!

Tuesday October 21st

I got tired of carrying enough water for both me and Tux when we're hiking, so I bought him his own backpack. I was afraid he wouldn't wear it but he LOVES it. He's so proud and important now. Ha. So far it's survived 2 hikes and he already gets excited when he sees it.

Spent the weekend cleaning house and working on trails and deerstands. Deer season starts Nov. 8th.

It's definitely fall now, leaves are falling and the temps have been in the 40s the last few nights. Brrr. Time to get the winter clothes and blankets out.

Friday October 17th

Paula, Aunt Sue and Me

Oct. 17th 2003

Another old picture. This one from my birthday in New Orleans five years ago. I sure look more than 5 years older than that pic now. Today I turned 50, my big excitement for the day was getting my drivers license renewed. Ha.
I've been kinda cranky about it, then I think about Mike and how he barely made 45 and it puts things in perspective. I'd give anything if HE could've seen his 50th birthday.

Thursday October 16th

My laptop crashed and I lost all my recent photos so I was digging around on desktop and found this pic of Cheyenne and Tux from 2004. What a difference a few years makes! Tux is a big as Cheyenne now and Cheyenne is aged, deaf, and barely getting around.

Not much going on since last post except I've been doing lots of running around. Today I'm going to Conway for the THIRD time this week. Normally I go there once every month or two. Or less. Tomorrow I have to go to Clinton (in the opposite direction).

Mom comes back from France today - Welcome Home Mom!