CLEANING HOUSE

yesterday it was raining out and i didn't really have anything on the schedule clear so i thought why not clean house..i needed to vacuum up most of mitch's dog hair...after breakfast i started by getting out the vacuum and started with our bedroom then the bathroom..then of course the phone rings i don't really remember who it was but after a 1/2 hr it was time to go back to vacuuming...then conversation which took about another hr or more but it was good seeing him as we had stopped to day before and no one was home...

about this time it is time for lunch so we partook of that chore filling our bellies...back to the vacuum-mop-broom i went...got the kitchen taked care of and the floor mopped about then it was 2pm...time to think about getting dinner in the oven..so the vacuum just stood still for awhile...while i put dinner together as we wanted to eat around 4:30 (we needed to watch a movie before lar went to the fire house for the monthly meeting)..now the movie was a waste of time in my opinion "The book of eli" don't recommend it...

anyway back to the vacuum and still i'm not even half way thru the house..oh well i guess i might just finish it another day..

i do wonder why i takes more than one day to finish a job/chore...way too many distractions ahahah..and i think i'm getting older and can't do as much as i once used to ahahahah...i think it is the distractions...but life is good and we are happy and that's all that counts today...

so today is another day of rain but i have other things to do rather than finish cleaning the house it can wait for another day ...

FIRST SNOW

ok this is what we got up to this morning...snow on the ground!!!! but i guess it is nov 1st so it is about time we got some...

;last night our group visited roy and carol for a surprise retirement/lay off party..roy is now retired but first he had to be laid off so we were just celebrating it all...what better night than halloween to do it..of course we all went in costume and brought just the right snacks to share for the occasion...when we were on our way out last night it started to snow and it was the nice big flakes but had stopped by the time we went home...but this morning there was snow on the ground...oh it won't last long..

things around here are in the getting ready for the winter weather to set in..trying to get all outside jobs/chores caught up --like drain the hose to the barn-leaves and more leaves taken care of--plant some last minute grass seed-and of course the list goes on and on..just when we thing it might be done one of us thinks of another thing that needs to be done..

lar has done some duck/goose hunting but not as much as he would like to be doing..4 turkeys have gotten in the freezer and alreay eaten-3 geese so far..we are also watching several deer some to the scrub pear tree and fill their tummy with pears...we have seen a couple of bucks and a doe with 2 teenagers with her...have heard of only one neighbor who has gotten a doe with his bow but the season is young...

so i guess things are in a normal fashion here in enfield..and it won't be long before we have to load up the rig to head south...we are tryingto dfecide where we want to go after we finish the build in mason , tx--maybe colorado and visit some more national parks before heading back east...and back to the old grind again..sure is a circle..

NFB

NFB now i bet you wonder what the means or stands ffor...the old truck was refered to as big fella so when you get a new truck it is refered to as the NEW BIG FELLA so that is where the NFB comes from...

lar got it about 2 weeks ago and it has had work done on it already...oh my work you say..the work was to have running boards put on it cause it is higher than the old truck and we both were having fun getting into it ahhaha..(the old one also had running boards on it) also a bed liner put in to help keep scratches of of it...then yesterday it made a trip to syracuse to have the old 5th wheel hitch put in it...a 3 hr job took about 5...good thing we had lisa come down...lisa was off so we asked her if she wanted to come to syracuse to meeet us and we would take her out to lunch..the appointment was for 9am and she got there about 9:15 or so...off we went to do some shopping...we like to go to sam's club while in syracuse as we don't have one here in ithaca and also we like to go to the liquor stotre to get a supply of wine sheaper then here in ithaca..had lunch then on to the christmas tree shop as lisa wanted to go as she had never been in one...by then it was back to the rv dealer to see if it was done..not done so off we went to gander mountain for an hr or so...by then we sent lisa home thinking the truck ought to be done soon...it was about 1/2/ hr later..so we all had a good day with lisa and the hitch is in the truck so we are about ready to take off...ahhahnot yet..deer season has to come and go first..

now for me in the last couple of weeks i have been knee deep in grapes and apples..i have made 4 batches of grape jelly and starting to make apple sauce as i have already dryed some apples...the deer just aren't eating them fast enough...it appears that peanut butter-jelly and applesauce will get us thru the winter...

no hard frost as of yet but it is on it's way (here at 464 anyway)..snow flurries in the air today...so i guess that kinda wraps it up why i haven't blog in awhile...

TRYING PICTURES

ok lets see if they go this morning...lots of water going over the falls..no wonder there was a mud slide down below on the trail...

BUSY-BUSY-BUSY

yesterday was a busy day...started off with stopping at buttermilk state park tpo see the falls..and they our tom and christine admiring them...after we took a tour of ithaca college then headed to cornell where we drove around the campus--then on to the plantations where we took a hike around one of the ponds...walked around the campus listen to the chimes-went to the johnson museum-ithaca falls-where does a person go to lunch in ithaca...where else but the ithaca bakery a good lunch-then on to sapsucker woods and did all that we could there --didn't take a hike as we wanted to get to taughnannock falls and take the hike in to see the falls when the sun would be just right..haha we were surprised the trail was closed due to all the heavy rain we had had and there had been a mud slide and the trail hadn't been cleared yet...so off we went to the top of the falls overlook to see them...another beautiful view of the falls...after which we returned home to leftovers and ended the day with a bon-fire..

tom and christine left this morning around 9am and are heading to the north east to become leaf peepers..christine's plan is to get more stamps some of which i have and she will get more than i have gotten...their goal is to finish up being in all 50 states..

good friends-and a fun time was had by all

ps...for some reason i'm having trouble posting pictures so i will send the posting and try pictures later...

VISITORS

our friends from NO where arrived on monday...from NO where you ask we'll i'll let you know...they are now full timers and haven't picked a state to be from so they are just from the good old USA...or NO where yet...

they brought with them rain and more rain...on monday afternoon we just caught up on all that has been going on in our lives since we last saw each other in wisconsin this spring...of course they home is with them all the time so they can go home even in a wal-mart...

yesterday we took a ride around the lakes cayuga and seneca lake and of course o9ne of our first stops was the women's hall of fame so we could both get our stamps..yep christine is one of us a national park stamp collector...we also worked on a junior ranger badge and did all the requirements and recieved the badges...we stopped at the amich market saunders and lar bought his favorite lunch stuff...ring bologna and parker house rolls..then we headed to sampson state park by then it wasn't raining so we found a dry place and had a picnic lunch...as soon as we got back in the car it started to rain again..

off we headed down seneca lake but first we had to find a winery to stop at cause it was time for some liquid refreshment...hazlit was the choice..after our samples

we landed in watkins glen..found a quilt store for christine to go in and fondle some fabric--she was good and only bought a couple of small patterns (tom says they have to watch the wieght in the rig)--the across the street to the famous brands store wher lar bought some dog walking boots and socks--tom a couple of golf shirts..then it was time to head

for home...i had planned on vension for dinner which we all enjoyed if i must say so...a couple iof games of cribbage--tom and lar won the first one and chris and i won the second

lar and i had a couple of appointments so tom and christine held the fort down..chris was in charge of cooking dinner (spelled good when we walked in the door) and tom put in a sliding rack in their rig (lar had an extra one )..

tomorrow the plan is to take them around ithaca and show the sights...

GRANDKIDS

we just returned from a pleasant 2 hr breakfast with our PA g/kids....we went to a perkins and were glad we arrived when we did ...because when we left maybe an hr and half later there must have been 30-40 people waiting to get in...but we were just enjoying ourselves so we ate talked and drank coffee...all three seem to be doing fine...mellissa has to do her homework thou...but hat is not uncommon for teenagers...

john says he is all set to go into the army and has signed on the dotted line leaving at the end of june 2011..and he seems excited abut it now he knows he has to graduate so he is buckling down..between school and his job at wendys he will be busy...says he got a good semester report...acarl is now in charge of the kitchen at the nursing home where he works but his hrs at 1pm--9pm so he puts in some long days...so it seems that all is well with the pa g/kids...it was good seeing them..we had seen mellissa in july but hadn't seen the boys in some tome carl the longest as he did come for thanksgiving last year but carl we think it has been since his graduation...carl is gong to be 22--john is 18 and mellissa will be a teen ager at 14..so time flies and they just seem to grown up fast...

life and grandkids are good...