I think you can tell I'm doing a little bit better lately. I'm trying. Thank you all for your support.
I got the outside Fall/Halloween decorations up!!! Feeling good about it. Not as elaborate as we used to do, but it's something, better than doing nothing.
Starting in the back yard at the entrance I just wanted to add a little bit of fall colors back there. Nothing huge or wonderful, just a little bit. There's little pumpkins in front of the wagon wheels but they are so small and puny that you can't see them too good. Oh well I tried.
Still trying to hide that disgusting gas tank. I grew very good weeds there this summer.
And here's the front
Then I was visited by Lindsey, AKA Charmed Minis on Saturday as she treked her way camping through Tennessee. Dan and I picked her up at the State Park near my house and brought her over to meet the Prancers. We spend a lot of time yakking in the barn. Then I gave her the grand tour of the mountain including the backroads where the moonshine stills are, but don't tell anyone we went there. It was fun. Being the outdoorsey gal and nature lover that Lindsay is, she appreciated the beauty of the mountain. Then we went riding around on my little Rover around the neighborhood and ran into some of the locals and she was amazed to see how friendly and nice everyone is around her.
Then the tree arrived! Jody from Stonehaven gave us a very special little tree from her Christmas Tree Farm. Thank you a million Jody. Sheryl brought it back with her from Ohio and we had it picked up on Saturday and brought home. This is Michael's tree. Since Michael and I were the holiday nut cases around here I wanted a special tree that was going to be just his that I could plant for him. I wanted to plant some kind of Christmas garden for him. This is a caanan fir ( not sure I spelled that correctly) but you cannot believe the frangrance. You will not believe how we are fussing over this tree. I'm obcessed with it. I spent a week trying to figure out just where to plant it. Everywhere I wanted it, there was something wrong; either the power lines were in the way, gas pipes under the ground, water lines, rocky ground, too far from electricity and water, you name it. I ended up digging 2 holes in the yard then Jerry came home and told me to quit digging up the yard because I nearly hit the gas pipe to the house. . So he had some ideas and dug 2 more holes. I didn't like his ideas. Then the shovel broke. Couldn't decide where to plant it. Next thing I know here comes my neighbor that I adore, Mrs. Johnson with orders that I am not to plant the little tree without her. She's an expert Christmas tree planting lady and said lovingly that she doesn't trust me to plant it correctly and questioned my ability to grow weeds. Says I have a bad track record for gardening so she insists she get involved with this tree. Everything she plants grows! So she will be coming over tomorrow (with a shovel) and her daughter, and her brother and his brother and together we will decide where to plant this special little tree. You will see this tree lit up for Christmas, I promise you that.
Then Dan got to work spreading gravel around the back side of the barn where I park my trailer. We've been making gravel roads all around the barn so eventually you can walk or drive anywhere easily. Since we did extensive ditching before barn construction, we don't flood or get water but we do get some mud on the far side. This will make it even easier in the winter. These are the large 2" size gravel. Hard to spread.
Afterwards, Dan and I worked on putting up the manure pile. That was such joy. It was getting nasty and spreading out too much. It gets picked up by the neighbors about 4 times a year and it's due to get hauled off this week.
The best part of the weekend for Dan was that his best friend Josh that had moved to Georgia came to spend the weekend. Those two missed eachother something pitiful and it was great to see them together again having fun. Then more of his friends came over and they all headed straight for their special place, The Garage.........I felt his presence in there everywhere.........
Thanks for letting me share.
I got the outside Fall/Halloween decorations up!!! Feeling good about it. Not as elaborate as we used to do, but it's something, better than doing nothing.
Starting in the back yard at the entrance I just wanted to add a little bit of fall colors back there. Nothing huge or wonderful, just a little bit. There's little pumpkins in front of the wagon wheels but they are so small and puny that you can't see them too good. Oh well I tried.
Still trying to hide that disgusting gas tank. I grew very good weeds there this summer.
And here's the front
Then I was visited by Lindsey, AKA Charmed Minis on Saturday as she treked her way camping through Tennessee. Dan and I picked her up at the State Park near my house and brought her over to meet the Prancers. We spend a lot of time yakking in the barn. Then I gave her the grand tour of the mountain including the backroads where the moonshine stills are, but don't tell anyone we went there. It was fun. Being the outdoorsey gal and nature lover that Lindsay is, she appreciated the beauty of the mountain. Then we went riding around on my little Rover around the neighborhood and ran into some of the locals and she was amazed to see how friendly and nice everyone is around her.
Then the tree arrived! Jody from Stonehaven gave us a very special little tree from her Christmas Tree Farm. Thank you a million Jody. Sheryl brought it back with her from Ohio and we had it picked up on Saturday and brought home. This is Michael's tree. Since Michael and I were the holiday nut cases around here I wanted a special tree that was going to be just his that I could plant for him. I wanted to plant some kind of Christmas garden for him. This is a caanan fir ( not sure I spelled that correctly) but you cannot believe the frangrance. You will not believe how we are fussing over this tree. I'm obcessed with it. I spent a week trying to figure out just where to plant it. Everywhere I wanted it, there was something wrong; either the power lines were in the way, gas pipes under the ground, water lines, rocky ground, too far from electricity and water, you name it. I ended up digging 2 holes in the yard then Jerry came home and told me to quit digging up the yard because I nearly hit the gas pipe to the house. . So he had some ideas and dug 2 more holes. I didn't like his ideas. Then the shovel broke. Couldn't decide where to plant it. Next thing I know here comes my neighbor that I adore, Mrs. Johnson with orders that I am not to plant the little tree without her. She's an expert Christmas tree planting lady and said lovingly that she doesn't trust me to plant it correctly and questioned my ability to grow weeds. Says I have a bad track record for gardening so she insists she get involved with this tree. Everything she plants grows! So she will be coming over tomorrow (with a shovel) and her daughter, and her brother and his brother and together we will decide where to plant this special little tree. You will see this tree lit up for Christmas, I promise you that.
Then Dan got to work spreading gravel around the back side of the barn where I park my trailer. We've been making gravel roads all around the barn so eventually you can walk or drive anywhere easily. Since we did extensive ditching before barn construction, we don't flood or get water but we do get some mud on the far side. This will make it even easier in the winter. These are the large 2" size gravel. Hard to spread.
Afterwards, Dan and I worked on putting up the manure pile. That was such joy. It was getting nasty and spreading out too much. It gets picked up by the neighbors about 4 times a year and it's due to get hauled off this week.
The best part of the weekend for Dan was that his best friend Josh that had moved to Georgia came to spend the weekend. Those two missed eachother something pitiful and it was great to see them together again having fun. Then more of his friends came over and they all headed straight for their special place, The Garage.........I felt his presence in there everywhere.........
Thanks for letting me share.
