VISITORS

lar and i had been talking about not seeing any deer in the back yard since opening day..oh we know some ahd been there at night because the fallen apples had been eaten we had just not seen any...yesterday at breakfast i looked out the dining room window and said to lar i think there are a couple deer out back ..sure enough there was a couple of good size does..then in the afternoon i happened to walk into the dining room and there were a couple more that were almost on the back porch...just grazing..so we watched them for awhile but by the time i got the camera they had wonder away up the hill so my pictures was not an up close one..so lar knows that he didn't get them all during the huntings season...

yesterday we started to get the rig ready for travel..i started by packing the clothes i want to hold off on the food till sat or sunday so we don't have to keep the furncas going day and night in ordcer that the canned food dosen't freeze...our plan right now is to pull out of here on tues after all has been done to get the house ready for winter...the water pipes have to be drained and the toilets and sinks filled with antifreeze...there just seems to be a list of last minute things to do..have checked out the weather for several of the cities we know that we go thru and it looks like the weather ought be be ok maybe rain..but didn't hear or see the word snow or ice which is not good...

today last minute clothes packing and non freezing things in the rig..

so you all have a HAPPY NEW YEAR may it be a great one...

CHRISTMAS DAY

it is a couple of days after CHRISTMAS and we have returned back home to a quiet house...lisa's was not so quiet 3 teenagers around sure make it hectic..and we could just sit back and laugh and remember those days... glad i have already been there done that...lar made breakfast with john and mellissa on christmas day and it was a good one...andy and lisa cooked the dinner and we had a turkey and they also cooked a ham all was delicious..

we stayed at the holiday inn where lisa works she got us a deal so we just decided with 3 teenagers in the house it might be nice to get a good nights sleep..besides we weren't invited to stay for a pajama party which they were going to have...stay up all night and watch movies and eat [popcron and what ever else they could find to eat..all in all we had a good visit with the family..

today most of the north east is socked in a blizzard...for us we have some snow but most of it is being blown around as the winds are 30--40 miles per hr and that also makes it cold...so the wood stove is of course on and there is a pot of soup also cooking away..what else on a cold--snowy--windy--wintery day...way to cold to go out and play in it...

later this week it is suppose to warm up a tad so that is when i'll start packing up the rig as we plan on leaving for florida the 3-4-5 of jan..depending on the forecast...not so much here but the route we take sure don't want to get caught in any kinda of unkind weather along the way..but then i guess we can just pull over and be comfy...

SPARE TIME

first what spare time do we have !!! must be some cause now we are volunteering at WONDERFUL WHEELCHAIRS...A friend and a couple of other saw a need to repair wheelchairs for who ever needs one..sso they arrange to use some space in a local nursing home in return WW would repair their wheelchairs for nothing...so right now larry is going every wed from 9-11:30 then they go out to lunch and i have only been a couple of times so far..it happens to be the same day as my exercise class so i may just go every other week so i can still get some exercise ahahah....just can't seem to do everything not enough time in a day or even night...it is a small group that is doing the repairs but what also needs to happen they need to sell some of the repaired ones and maybe once the word gets out about the available wheelchairs more will be sold...medicare pays for those seniors in need so the market has to be other than medicare patients..some dr's offices has bought one or two..most of them seem to have them already..

christmas is creeping upon us but for the most part i think i am ready if not too bad...better luck next year...we will be heading north on friday and returning onsunday the nit will be time to zero in on getting the rig ready for travel...we would like to be on the road before the 5th but of course it also depends on the weather which really is the big factor in all the planning...sure don't want to drive in a blizzard or snow storm...

OUR LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREE

A few years ago our good friends roy and carol gave us this little wooden christmas tree for christmas and we have enjoyed it ever since...we go up to our daughters for the holidays and right after we leave to go south so we haven't gone to the trouble of cutting a real tree to put in the house to decorate...soooo this has been our tree...this is the first year we decided to put some ornaments on it and we think it is just right for us...don't have to water it nor sweep up the needles it drops on the floor...we just hope santa can find it if he decided to comoe our way...

we hope you all are ready for christmas we are...

so we want to wish every one who reads our blog A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR GOD BLESS

BACK YARD

what does a person do when they are sitting ast the dining room table at our house...look out the window at all the wildlife...this squirrel has been fun to watch climb around eating out of the bird feeeders and his determation to get at the best seeds in the feeder...then we have the tufted titmice who just seem to love the suet along with the chickadees and the woodpeckers...

today is the last day of 2010 deer hunting and of course lar just left to go take the gun for a walk another traditation he says being the last day...and it is rainig out (we didn't seem to get the ice -sleet yet)--i can remember one year on the last day and he hadn't gotten one yet he went out in the same kinda of weather and it wasn't long before he was back and he had scored with a buck...now if it were me i think i would have just stayed in the house where it was warm and dry..

last night was the annual firemen's banquet and a good time was had by all...lots of good food-drink (lots if you wanted) and dance...the ones who have been taking line dance lessons had the dj play lots of our kind of music so we all dance up a storm...some of us can hardly move this morning ahhaha...anyway it was a fun time..then this morning we returned to the fire house to help clean up and got the job done in less than an hour...many hands make light work...

so now it will be football and crocheting for me...

HE'S DONE

up and attum this morning lar's off to go have breakfast with roy and tyler then they of course are goingto go hunting...for me i'm up and out of the house by 6:10am on my way to have breakfast with my group who have been dong this every other week for 15 yrs..we have been going to friendly's most of the time..most of uys are retired but there is a couple that aren't and some of them only show up when school in off...

well anyway lar says he'll be home by noon...for me after breakfast i go do some grocery shopping and a visit to k-mart and wally world..just to see what they might have that i really need..get home take care of the purchases and then decided it is time to do my e-mail...and in walks the hunter i say your early are you cold??
no he says..then you are home early..yep he says but guess what ??? oh i know the answer he got another deer so i ask is it a buck or doe??? big or small??? he says good size...see for yourselves..this makes a total of 4 he has gotten this year and we gave one away...so the freezer will be full of vension so i guess we won't go hungry...NO more i say we don't have room for any more...sunday is the last day of the season and guess what after we go help go clean-up at the fire station on sun (the annual banquet is sat night) more than likely we get home he will change into his hunting and take his gun for a walk...TRADITION he says ...so ends another deer hunting season...

STORE

now if you look close at the store you'll wonder WHY i even went into it..not my kinds of store for shopping but i did really go in... NO i did not buy anything i only looked around...this weekend we had larry's brother dan and his wife carol over for a hunt/visit...so on sat after the boys had come in for coffee and the sun came out carol and i decided to go do some shopping --she is a QUILTER and i said there is this store in ithaca that is rated one of the top best quilt stores in the country (now you wonder why i should even know that..well when our friends were here from wisconsin--chris is a BIG TIME QUILTER told me about it and we tried to get there but ran out of time)...carol's eyes lite up and a big smile came over her face so i knew she wanted to go...so we did...after abut an hr in the store and carol's credit cards were maxed out we left with a car load of material/fabric/rags or what ever you call that stuff...we went on to do more shopping--next stop was michaels and i bought some more yard for another shawl...

i had put a pot of chilli in the crock pot in the morning and dinner was ready so we tried something new i made cornmeal waffles and we had the chilli on tiop of the waffles it was good and i will probally do that again...

all in all a good visit/weekend but NO deers--they are still running around out back and still coming to eat the apples when it is dark...