CATSKILLS RUNAWAY

here we are in the town of catskill and have been there for a  couple of days..

left home on tues and headed to verona, ny where we knew we could get into the turning stone resort for the night.(yep it is a casino and NO we did not go to it)...the first night  a storm came thru that caused alot of damage and has been confirmed that it was a tornado...the campground was on the lower edge of the storm we had lots of branches down and a tree..we even brought in the slides and of course the awing and we noticed the next morning that a couple of rigs lost their awings...there was also 4 deaths in the area...t

then on wed coming across NY we heard that the albany area had also had one of the damaging storms go thru..so the god lord is watching out for us and keeping us out of the p

ath of the storms

we have visited the NY fireman's museum and very interesting museum and the price was right as lar is a volunteer and i am a member of the aux so we got in for free...there is also a nursing home for firemen...

yesterday we went to the martin van buren historical site took a tour and had a great guide she sure knows about martin..and YEP we got another junior ranger badge..

today we move on  to moreau state park where we will be going to the carlson family renuion (lar's mothers family)..this family does parades and you'd have to attend to see this parade not like you've ever seen before..who knows what ever else might be planned for th day..

life is good

VISITORS

last week we had visitors from wisconsin--florida...why you might asked 2 states..well they have a home in florida and a rig in wisconsin and were passing thru on their way to maine where they are going to be working at the KOA in bar harbour  for the summer...they arrived tues  but had had a problem in the way called a flat tire on the rig after getting that fixed and another new tire they decided not to push on the enfield but found a KOA enroute to sit back and unwind...can't blame them been there done that..

then lar and i met them on the outskirts of ithaca and tom and lar went to a tire store to get 2 more new tires and christine and i headed to enfield....then on the way up one of our hills the truck started to over heat and both tom and lar looked at each other and said that's not good...after getting to 464 and they had callled the local chevy dealer  they unhooked and took the truck over to trumansburg where it was diagnosed with a radiator problem...so it stayed there for a couple more days while they flushed it out and fixed the problem...but in the mean time we also had other habitat friends coming for dinner tues afternoon..good seeing them all...

so we just kinda hung out around ithaca  for the next 2 days waiting for the truck ;to get fixed...so off we went to the ithaca beer company--(of course we had a had a beer)...then to the famous "QUILT STORE" which is one of the top 10 in the northeast...and NO christine didn't buy 1 thing ..oh she found lots she would have liked but sat on her pocketbook ahhahahaah..

a trip to the falls especaily since we had had a hard heavy rain the night before so the fall were just a rolling which make it more interesting to see...finally they got the truck back and were on their way by thursday and are now in maine..

so we had a great visit with them and also therese-jon-and don...

life in good in the country

BACKYARD WILDLIFE

 4 years ago we first started seeing a male pheasant come  to our bird feeder and we think it has been the same one each year this year he has brought a female along with him and we have watched them all spring ..for the last couple of weeks we have only seen her once or twice so we are hoping she is sitting on a nest..he comes the the tree almost everyday by 5am and  crows and cackles of course to wake us up and he does a good job..

last night we got over 2 inches of rain so today was a day for inside jobs like clean house hahaha...finally i got a chance to sit down at the computer and lar was at the dinning room table looking at the mail..all of a sudden he says tracy  come quickly and quietly so i tried ...there under the tree was a fawn and it's  mama...by the time lar got his camera out and ready to take a picture they had decided to walk to the woods..lar's first for the spring but my second fawn to see..oh it is always exciting to see the wee little ones...

so a quiet day in the country has turned out to be rather exciting..

what better way to spend a rainy day inside..watching wildlife in the back yard..

liffe in good in the country

2ND TURKEY

well he has gotten the second turkey of this spring season..now he has 2 more to go...if he had gotten the 2 he missed then he would be all done amen...

we have a pheasant that comes to the feeder every morning by 4:30--5:00 and squaks and carries on like an alarm clock but i don't need to get up at the hour or even wake up but he insists so i am up early...

garden is all reay to plant but we want to wait till the threat of cold weather passes maybe next week..if also has to stop raining...more on it's way later today and tomorrow...

trees are finally blooming and look great but i must say the apple trees don't seem to have may blossoms so we are thinking that the cool weater we got shortly after we got home might have done a job on them..last year we had a bumper crop and the deer were well fed..looks like thisyear we will be lucky to get any..

just the way nature works..

enjoy

SUCCESS

as most of you know we have to be home by may 1st cause that is the opening day of spring turkey season...and the old boy dosen't want to miss that...he went out on the first and missed one..the second day he heard a couple ..but today he was back home by 7 with a big bird 21 lbs so he is a happy man..and if he is happy so am i...he has a couple more tags to fill and he may sleep in tomorrow..this getting up at 3:30am is almost for the birds...oh he is quiet but i still wake up...

life is still good

WELL FED

after we got home and filled our bird feeders we wonder why one of them was empty all the time...we had an idea but wasn't sure..maybe  the wind???maybe a critter was getting into it and yep that was why..so it

ought to be well fed for this years hunt...

TEST

ok i am going to try to post a picture