SECOND BIRD

this morning lar was up and out of the house by i think 4:30 on his way to the woods to say he was taking his gun for a walk...only a few more days of spring turkey season and of course he wants to get in as many days as he can...oho i was up around 6 or so ..by 7 i heard the front door open and he either was cold and he had his second one...yep he had his second one...amen so maybe tomorrow he will sleep in... the other day while eating lunch we saw a indigo bunting come to the feeder and it sat on the feeder with a male cardinal for a long time but by the time we got the camers the cardnial flew away... last weekend we took a drive to syracuse to take lisa and family out to dinner...5 or so years ago she started working on her high school diploma and at that time we said we would take her out to dinner to a place of her choice..well this winter she finally did it so we had to pay up...she wanted to go to texas road house so the nearest one to us in the middle was syracuse so that's where we met and enjoyed dinner...she was very excited when she found out she has finally passed...it has been a long hard road for her to do it..but she 'GOTTA ER DONE"

BLOSSUMS HAVE ARRIVED

this year spring has been slowly arriving...usually are apple trees are in full bloom about the third week in april but this year it has been a good 2 weeks later...finally the are just a blooming and smell sooo good...also the pear tree looks like it ought to have a lot of pears...now lets hope that not like last year when the trees were in full bloom we had a SNOW storm that wiped out the blossums so there was NO fruit to be had..most of the apple were in very sad shape and not worth doing anything with them even eating...I guess mother nature has her own mind as to what she wants to do so we will take what ever she gives us no matter rain-dry-sleet-snow--abd the list goes on to the types of weather she can dowl out to us to enjoy one way or another.. l also you can see a bird in the tree it is a green blue heron (oh I know it doesn't look like one) that just happened to land in the tree while we were eating lunch stayed long enough to take a picture then now sure where it went maybe up the the pond...

SEVENTH DAY

on the 7th day of spring turkey season lar's finally scores...amen to that...he has been getting up for the last 3 weeks at 3:30 am the first 2 weeks to go out to scout where the birds might be then for the last week it was to take his gun for a walk in the woods...finally this morning the gun was sick of walking so he made him shoot it...and low and behold he came home with a bird.. oh he is good trying not to wake me up but i still do wake up then toss and turn for a bit some morning going back to sleep but not all mornings...a lot can be done in the early hours of a day... spring is filling beginning to show here..some trees blooing finally..the pear trees in the hedge row look good but when the wind blows it is like being in a snow storm when the little white petals come flying off the tree.. i'll let you decided which one is the real bird and which one is the decoy

HANKY-PANKY

there has been hanky-panky going on it our back yard this morning...we have had a male pheasant for a couple of years z has come to our bird feeder and clean up the seeds on the ground...late last year he was bringing a couple of females pheasants with him...they have been fun to watch and of course we have named them..he is Philpot and then there is penny and patty...this morning as we were looking out the dining room window he was doing a dance around penny then all of a sudden he jumps on her and she squats down..within a matter of minutes he get off of her and walks away..(you can only imagine what they were doing) then patty arrives on the scene and he is doing his dance around her and she wants nothing to do with him yet anyway... so living in the country provides all kinds of entertainment some you don't even expect to see.. life is good here in the country!!!!!!!

EXCITEMENT

now what is the excitement in enfield ??? last night around midnight we both were soooo sound asleep the fire siren went off again as it had the night before..of course lar dosen't really hear it but I do and then I hear chatter on the miniter/pager and I think I hear enfield ctr rd e..now that's our road so up I get to listen to it again to hear exactly what is going on on our road...well I turned it off instead of on but I looked out our dining room window that faces down hill and what do I see but the night sky just aglow with red...oh my I guess there is a fire at the neighbors..i called lar out of bed to tell him that there is a big fire down the hill...up he jumps and away he goes... yes indeed that was a trailer fire at the neighbors..the house is of questionable character (boarding house) and filled with some of our most finest....the person who rents the room also has a couple of travel trailers that he rents out to whomever we don't know..we have looked at this trailer before and thought that it is just waiting for a fire as they had electric cords running from the house to it..and who knows what else.. at the scene lar heard that who ever had been living in it had been thrown out not to long ago so there could be some police work that needs to be done to come up with the cause of fire..glad that no one was in it as it didn't take long for it to be completely gone .. so lar returns back home around 3am or so back to bed for the rest of a nights sleep.....hopefully tonight will be a quiet night in our small little country town of enfield center and a good nights sleep can be had by all

COLUMBUS, OH

today we had on our schedule to go into the ohio state capital so we asked our gps (onstar) about the directions and were given some..so off we went to find the capital building to take a tour in it...we followed the directions and went by some building that had a sign outside that said future site of state house...must be that isn't the capital so we again went on on-star to ask for more directions and were given more to a different place...we found an ohio historical museum...must be there really isn't one here ..so we asked at the desk about where the capital was and were given a blank look as to say we don't know...there was another lady who also wanted to go to the capital and thought she was in a tourist center...finally she was given some written directions...so we also got a copy and thought as long as we were at the museum why not go thru...so we did after 3 hrs looking at stuff we decided not to try to find the capital and instead headed back to the campground...we had been museum "OUT".....stopped to look/buy some new shoes which we did.. after a long day out and lar even found a KK and was happy that he had a donut hahahah we have decided that a state house is probally the same as a capital building..oh well we missed ohio and not sure if we will try to find it at a different time...

ANOTHER CAPITAL

yesterday was a travel day and some of it was in rain --we did not have to take donw in the rain nor set up which we are glad of .. took a ride to check out where we wanted to go to today so this morning off we went to the capital of Kentucky...had a really good guide who took her time and it sure wasn't like when we went thru the one in Jackson, ms--that one we felt we were on the run... after which we were told of a candy factory that gave tours so why not..a small factory but interesting.. also on our plan of activities was to go to the buffalo trace distillery...and can you believe that we had another great tour guide and his name was Freddie...learnt a lot more about making bourbon..also never gave it a thought but if someone is allergic to wheat-cokrn then they shouldn't be drinking bourbon as that is what is used to make it...Freddie was very informative and had lots of stories to tell us about the place and area... all in all we had a good day and tomorrow on the move again...heading toward Columbus, ohio with the hope of visiting another state capital..most of the capitals so far have a lot of the same but then again each one is a tad different...