2 HORSES

when we bought the new rig lar thought oh it would be nice to have a horse on the wind defector so he asked the sales man about getting one...brian the sales person had never heard of anyone wanting one or getting one but he was willing to ask about getting one..so he contacted his sales rep at open range and between the two of them lar finally got one in the mail...so now he is a happy man cause now instead of 1 horse he now has 2.. so today we were at the fire station working out and he decided that as long as were going to be inside would be a good time to give the defector a bath and mount the horse on it..so that is what we did after church today...now instead of following one horse's a--- down the road it will be 2..ahhaahhaah fall has finally going out the window..the temps have gotten colder and we started up the wood stove the other day especially when it was so damp..felt good and still does...leaves are almost gone from the trees and have been blown around the yard..so I guess it is time to think about the next season.. oh don't you think he looks like the killroy was here cartoon!!!!!!

STUCK

ok so who gets stuck in the mud!!!!! oh it isn't me!!!!!!! lar wanted to mow around the pond above the house and the next thing i know he is back and i don't hear the lawn mopwer running...i ask him what wrong thought maybe he drove it in ahahahaha.. oh he says just stuck..so off we went with the bulldog and i pulled him out of the mud...sorry no pictures as i forgot the camera...but at least it wasn't me who got MY lawn mower stuck in the mud.. great fall day right now..but suppose to turn this afternoon to several days of rain and the possiblity of snow flurries...just in time for halloween...

NIGHTLY VISITOR

we keep a hav-a-hart trap set on our back porch to catch us chipmuck and squirrels as we know some of them are finding their way into the garage and house...they can do damage so we like to catch them then lar takes them to the woods or even to the pond where he gives them swimming lessons...last night in the middle of the night I kept hearing this clink and the rattle of the trap thinking oh good we have caught us another one of those pesky creature

...lar is up early as he was going to go turkey hunting but came back to bed as it was raining out and was kinda on the miserable side...then it was time to really get up for the morning..out he goes to the dining room saying you'd never guess what is in the trap..oh a squirrel..nope he says better than that..it has a black strip donw it's back and also some white..oh my I say a SKUNK now what are we going to do with that..after some discussion it was decided to cover the cage and take it away..so lar got an old army poncho that he could also attach a pole to carry it away with..so off he went with it... we were lucky that it didn't spray it's scent not sure if the reason was because it couldn't raise it's tail or what but we were lucky that it didn't leave any scent around the house or even get lar.. just one more exciting thing about living in the country you just never know who or what might come calling in the night..

HAPPY HAPPY SQUIRRELS

this year our walnut trees are really loaded and when they fall they sure make a mess of the lawn...they are not the easiest nuts to crack then pick out the nutmeat..soooo we usually just take them to the wood for the squirrels to do with what they want..but most years it is only a few buckets of them to handle.. but this year that is a different story..we have decided to load up the bulldog and take the nuts way back in the woods to make all the squirrels out there to be very HAPPY.. our apples are also producing like crazy...have also taken several loads of drops to the woods for the wild life to eat...been making apple sauce--pies--muffins--bread--just to name a few things we have done with the apples along with eating them..we need to keep the dr's away ahhaahahha.. so it has been a very productive fall..

as you can see the bulldog is full we think at least three bushels of those things

WHAT'S NEW

I heard stories of when lar was a young boy and he wanted a horse so bad he would cry at night..one year his parents let him buy a chance /raffle ticket on a pony and NO he did not win he so he was heart broken...they gave him a rocking horse and several other horse things over the years to make him happy... SO NOW HE HAS A HORSE

yep it is a new fifth wheel!!!!!!!!! we started shopping for one soon after we got back home this summer..we have been talking that maybe the time is getting close for us to bite the bullet and look for something new...the silverback was 7 yrs old and had over 65,000 miles on it as near as lar could figure...so we went to several different rv dealers and this is the one we found more to our liking...lar did not want anything longer than whan we had and only 2 slides...we ended up with one that is a 1 1/2 longer and three slides...last week was spent empting out the old one--and saying where did all this "STUFF" come from as box after box came out...this weekend we have been starting tp put box after box back in the new one...we want to spend time going thur the stuff to see what we might get rid of...stuff we haven't used in years...so the fun is beginning around here... NOW LAR IS A HAPPY MAN !!!!!!!!! ahhahaahahahhahaha

A WEEK HOME

as you know we are now home and arrived last sat around 5 or so give or take a wee bit... we had company arriving on wed from Colorado springs--friends we have know for a few years and of course first met them on a habit build where we first met them in tucson, az then in dade city...they are on their way to maine to see the leaves change in the northeast...Ithaca in right on the way so they stopped for a few days..had a good time visiting and showing them the sights of the finger lakes region of NY... of course we visit wineries--women's rights museum--saunders--and what ever else we came across to see and do.. on fri we were on our way to corning to visit the museum and went into Watkins glen for breakfast and don't you know the town had a big vintage car festival going on with a race at the track...so instead of going to corning we just stopped in Watkins to see all the old cars..so that changed our plans cause by the time all the cars had been looked at there really wasn't much time to go to the museum as we would have just gotten there and then it would have closed..so back to Ithaca we went to show all the falls and cornel campus...we had a good visit with pat and colleen... they are now on their way to the 1,000 islands and heading to maine with the hopes on making it to nova scotia...most of all they want to see the leaves and the beautiful colors..

pat is putting NY on the map...they almost have all the states --just a few more to go..

LAST FEW NATIONAL PARKS

we are now home and have traveled some --close to 9,000 miles so now our feet will be in one place for a couple of months before we take off again..we visited some 34 national parks--historic sites--monuments and got 47 stamps for our book...don't ask which one was the best cause there is no best or favorite each and every one had something special about it that ewe enjoyed...now there are a lot more for us to visit one of these days years...we have a mission and that is to get to as many national parks as we can and the list keeps growing... the last one was steamtown in Scranton, pa and because it was a holiday weekend they were having a special train weekend so there were way tooooo many visitors there so we did not get to see as much as we would have liked but we can always return if wanting too... now that we are back there is a lot of catching up to do around...there is always the lawn which we had mowed but the grass doesn't stop growing till the snow flies...and because of the flood damage we experienced while we were gone there is some clean-up of that...stones and gravel in places that it shouldn't be... of course a lot of general things to get done along with unpacking the rig...ugh... soo we had a great summer saw friends-- filled some of the things on our bucket list---saw and id things we never thought we would have--so all's well with us

ok the pictures fort necessity--can you imagining that holding on to an attack friendship hill where we listened to some period flute music Dwight and mamie eisenhowwer house sunset in pa and of course trains from steamtown..