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...

SHAWL

yes I made that!!!!! go figure...our church has a mission shawl group and they make shawl for those who have been sick-just need a wee bit of a pick me up- or who ever the group thinks needs some warmth and love...

i haven't crocheted in maybe 15-20 yrs and thought i can do that again and it would give me something to do while watching tv (football games)...so a couple iof weeks agao i talked to one of th group about patterns and was given a couple...so when we got home i went to my box of yarn (yep i still had some it dosen't spoil) and i thought i had enough to tackle a shawl..so i read and read the directions several times and said to myself i can do this...so i started...ripped it out several times and then began to think NO way do i remember how to do this...but i continued to try and low and behold it started to come together and look like something....i know that there are probally mistakes in it but i didn't see them and took it to church this morning to give to the ladies in charge of the mission..and can you believe i have now even started on a second one...

so i guess it is not too late to pick up something you might have done many years ago and start doing it again...i just thought while traveling around maybe i could crochet while riding (not sure as i do get nauseated while reading) and do something worthwhile...it will be worth a try..if not while riding i can work on it while watching tv in the evening unless something else is going on...maybe even around a camp fire....

so this has been my sunday thing tpo do while watching football...(also the rest of the week in the evening..

so it is now time to go to some more on the second one...it is sunday and football will be on soon...

THANKSGIVING

our day started off like most thanksgiving days...lar up and out early for the hunt (oh NO deer) and for me it was time to get up and tend to the turkey...made the stuffing/dressing-and all the others food that goes with the dinner...by then it s time for a shower and change clothes...friends started to arrive around 1:30 give or take some time..one of the different things about yesterday was that we ate in the house and didn't go out to the barn like we have for many years (oh i don't even remember when we started that)...we had only 8 extras for dinner and with us there were 10....

so another thanksgiving dinner has been prepared and eaten now for the leftovers (which i like better)...so it is also time to start to think about next year but first i guess we have to enjoy christmas and go SOUTH for the winter before -planning thanksgiving it is a whole year away...so why rush it ahahha...

some of you may have gotten up early to go shopping and find the best deals on what ever you are looking for but for me i stayed in bed...sure don't want to fight the crowds and i don't think anything is on sale that we have to have..haha besides i don't really know what is on sale to even know if i need/want it...

celebrating thanksgiving gives us a chance to be thankful for family-friends-and all the rest ...getting up in the morning i say thank you to god that i am able to enjoy another day and what ever it has in store for me...so get on with the day and be thankful

OPENING DAY 2010

yesterday was opening day of deer season here in NY...our old dear friends fom the norht country came down like they ahve for several years...up and out early in the morning they went (me i stayed in bed to keep the home fires going hahaha)...back in for lunch at noon...so lunch was had and off they went again..i then went to my project of crocheting (yes christine that is what i said crocheting!!!!!)--( i am working on a shawl for the missions at church)...anyway as i was in the living room doing my thing and in comes larry huffing and puffing...i ask what's the matter and he says it is a long story...so i knew something was up...he then starts to tell me the story that he saw this deer that was struggling to walk and another deer was with it so he thought that he ought to put the injured one down so he shot only to find out that he hit the wrong deer...and then had to find the other one to shoot it so it wasn't suffering any more...so now he has 2 deer --oh they were legal as he had tags for them both...it was decided to give one of them to our friendsso they could have some meat to take home...

off to the butcher we went after they wer cleaned up a bit...

this morning ellie decided to sleep in and as we were enjoying a quiet breakfast we saw 4 deer in the back yard...we both could have gotten our guns and shot at them but we didn't want to..figured we let the men do that

i guess we won't starve the winter as there will be some vension in the freezer and the season is young and there are still tags to be filled...

SAD NEWS

yesterday our house was not very happy..as some of you know we lost a good friend and family member..his name was MITCH...he and larry did there regular thing the night before and that was to take a walk before bed time...he did his usuall thing of chasing the deer out of the back yard then they continued on there way out for him to do his nightly poop...which he did by going down into the hedge row --sometimes he likes to take a wee bit longer and he sniffs then follows what ever it is and decided to come back to the house later...we just wait the extra 1/2 or so while he does his own thing...but the night before he must have decided to take a different route as he didn't come back..we both got up several times in the night to let him he but he still wasn't back by morning...we both had an awful feeling that something was a wrong cause it just wasn't like him not to come back......well it was...lar found him by the side of the road apparently he had been hit by a vehicle..NO ONE stopped to let us know and he had a name tag on him...at least we now know what had happened to him and why he didn't come back home...he is now back home buried up above the house near the pond overlooking the property....mitch was a great friend and family member he just fit right into our schedule--he never asked for a thing and was happy when he got a reward of a bisquit-bone-toy and even just a pat on the top of his head...hw will be missed ..

so now we start another chapter in our lives with the hopes that the void will be filled