GETTING READY

now that CHRISTMAS is over we can think about getting the "rig" packed to go south...we had a lovely Christmas dinner with friends and then a trip up north to visit lisa and family--all's good--rain on the trip north and on sunday the sun was out so the trip back was uneventful--we took a swing to hamilton to visit lar's brother and family then on home...we had cat duty for a few days (cat duty was checking in on the barriere cats while they were away visiting their children)..
yesterday a day trip back to falconer to visit lar;'s mom and sister-brother before the trip south..we were as tad concerned about the weather but it all turned out ok..even dry roads returning...

i have things piled up all over the house and notes of things to remember to pack...clotes also in piles and boxes and baskets filled and ready to unpack when i get in the rig...i will start tomorrow putting in things we don't have to worry will freeze then this weekend do the food...we also are keeping a close watch on the weather sure don't want to drive into a really big snow storm like they got in virginia a couple of weeks ago....

no pictures today as there hasn't been one taken...

2010 starts soon and lets just hope a pray that it is a good year for all...so HAPPY NEW YEAR to those that we wouldn't be seeing and may the new year bring you joy and prosperity.....

DINNER

as you can see lar is gettingready to put dinner in the pot...lobster you say yep!!! on sat night we went to a christmas party where the gift exhange is probally one that most of you have done a fun way to exhange gifts..you get a card or number and when the card is drawn you get to pick a gift from a pile or steal one rom someone else..well larry stole the lobster and ended up with it so it was sunday's dinner..surf and turf..mmmmm good..

now for mitch last year my sister made him his own quilt and on these cold days night i just can't resist to cover him up...he likes it..in front of the wood stove and he is all comfy cozy..what better life for a dog..well last night when lar took him for his nightly walk he took off and about an hr later he returned..we figrued he found himself a gut pile to eat...so this morning he didn't eat his breakfast and we had 7:30 dentist appt..then we had a couple of errands to do well by the time we got home wew found 5 piles of stuff in the house..(it is not like him to do that so he must have really had to barf)...he is now spending most of his day laying around and going to the door to go out...hope you are all ready for christmas and santa..we are...I THINK

BIRDS

oh what fun it is to watch the birds...yesterday at the feeders we saw 8 cardinals 5 males and 3 females..what a pretty sight to see the red feeding on the ground with the new snow...we usually see cardinals but i can't remember when we have had so many and with all the other birds it seems like every other day i have to go fill the feeders and the suet cakes..we have 1 red bellied woodpecker and aren't sure where it's mate is unless he/she doesn't have one but there is always only 1...

yesterday we went on a senior trip..in syracuse here is a big display of lights around Onondaga lake which is over 2 miles long (glad we aren't paying the electric bill)..anyway after that we went to a restaurant that was have a mystery dinner dhow...it was fun but we just aren't used to eating dinner at 8:30pm when that is just about our bed time...guess we have to let are hair down once in awhile ahahah..hoe who ever is reading this is ready for CHRISTMAS and that their holiday be happy and joyous...

20 MINUTES TO GO

now let me tell you about yesterday afternoon...we were having kinda a slow day so i suggested why don't we play some cards and play the new card game my brother and his wife taught us in hawaii..so we did..lar won the first game and i was winning the second when he said quietly DON'T MOVE!!!!! and be quiet..so i looked out the dining room window cause i knew why i hadto be quiet..there were at least 4 deer under the apple tree..i started to get up to go to the bedroom to see if there were more in the back yard again lar told me NOT TO MOVE so i didnt.. several days ag o moved the screen of one of the windows up -as pre plan i'd say--up goes the window about an inch or so just enough for the gun barrel to go thru the window...he waits (i'm quiet) for one of the bigger ones to get in his sights she does bang she jumps and two take off..lar asks me which way did she go i said down the hill...the two that went as far as the clothes line came back so he decided to shoot another one --bang she jumps and away she goes...

lar gets kinda dressed but not in all his hunting clothes he just throws on his hunting coat by this time the snow is coming down heavy almost hard enough so it is hard to see...out he goes finds the first one in the neighbors field he marks it then takes off after the other one he shot..he looks and looks and figures that he just might have to wait till today cause it is snowing sso hard that there are NO tracks and the blood spots have been covered up..so he starts back to the house ajnd almost trips over it..time to clean it and drag it back to the house..then he comes he and recruits me to go help him...off to the neighbors field we go and by this time it is dark and still snowing..good thin he marked the deer as it was all covered with snow and hard to see or find unless you knew exactly where it was..so i help clean out that one and drag it back to the house..lar calls the butcher and asks can he bring over 2..load them up and take a ride we did all this with cause lar had 20 MINUTES TO GO before legal sunset and the days hunt was over...

FIRST SNOW

ok this is the snow we've gotten from the strom that has raced across the states...3-4 inches of the white stuff and it is windy out as i sit hiere i can sure hear the wind whipping around the house...also sleet has hit the windows-the plows were out around 5am plowing and sanding the roads...rain suppsoe to be here by this afternoon so i guess we are getting a winter mix of weather...good time to start a fire in the fire place watch a movie or just curl up and read a good book...i hope you all have a good day just stay put and enjoy it nothing else we can do about it...

COLD

it is down right cold out today..maybe it is also because we haven't had it cold in some time..but it got down to 22 last night in the front of th house...

yesterday lar went out hunting before church and didn't see anything but got cold..then he came in off to church we went followed by a dish-to-pass luncheon after which we stayed to help decorate the church for CHRISTMAS..to helpo us get in the mood for celebrating ...came home and did a few projects around the house..around 4:15 or so i looked out the dining room window and told lar to come look...there under the apple tree were 4 deer so i went to the bedroom to get a better look at the whole back yard and there was another one of those 4 legged animals ..he just couldn't stand looking at them so on he put a pair of boots grabbed a coat and of course his gun...quietly out the front door he went..a minute or two later i heard a shot..oh my i said to myslef another one for the freezer...NO he missed and made a trench in the mud..the season ends on sunday at sunset so he has a few more days of chasing them around the back 40..

today is an inside day..of fto exercise and a ppot of soup is on the wood stove for later...all's well---flowers to help keep you thinking of spring and summer the warmer months...

???RECORD DEER

yesterday i tried to upload pictures of our friends deer but i think too many people were shopping on line and it just didn't go ...so i am trying again today..some of you may have seen this picture already but i'm putting it on the blog anyway..this deer was shot about 1/4 mile from our house by our very good friend roy..the biggest deer he ever shot. and to think his son tyler shot an 8 pt opening day which was the biggest he had ever shot --i guess there was some competition in their house ahahha...roy's was a 12 pt and he is going to get it measured so it can go in the state record book...

now for lar he still has only gotten the one opening day and it out in the woods right ..i just heard 3 shots in a place where he told me he was going so who knows it could be a neighbor--i'll just have to wait to see if we have to make a trip to the butcher...we won't starve regardless this winter--we won't be home ahahah...

some snow has been falling but not enough to cover the ground yet...