SNOW

Hello everyone, 

The first day of the year and it snowed all day yesterday, only got 1-2 inches. But for now, roads are clear for the most part. This is a wet snow sticking to everything. 

Guess today I will see about working on some of the quilt blocks I have done. Think I would like to do some embellishments on them. 

The roof over the upper deck is working great, the deck is dry for the first time since this house was built. I must say no longer than it is up we are very happy with it. 

More stuff coming, so stay tuned to see what we are up to next.

Love and Prayers, 

 Margo

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Hello everyone, 

We are doing just fine and hope this post finds everyone doing well. 

We are enjoying the new roof to our upper deck, keeping the snow and rain from the door and windows. I will have some pics later on. 

We also now have several trees taken down this fall, I will say more about them later on. We are getting the place opened up some. I feel it will let the air flow through better around here. I have removed all the honeysuckle from the fence and cleaned that up as well. We will have some cleanup to do, and I also plan to have several half-barrows with plants where some of the tree stumps are. 

More coming later on. All our pups Truffles and Kricket are doing just fine, and our Frosty bird is fine also. 

Stay tuned with us.

Love and Prayers, 

 Margo

New Upper Deck

Morning, 

Here is a pic of our new upper deck. They got it finished in July, just now getting a pic to post and show the new deck. I think they did a nice job. 

No longer looking at holes in my deck. LOL 

They used yellow pine for the wood. The darker 4x4's were left as they were in great shape, but the spindles and floor of the deck were bad. 

We are still thinking about adding a ROOF over the upper deck. 

New Upper Deck with Kricket and Truffles

Love and Prayers,

 Margo

Hummers

Morning everyone, 

Well, here we are in August already. Snake is still in the tree hole, comes out part way and goes back in again for a while. Chickens are all doing just fine, getting between 3 to5 eggs a day now. Our 5 hens are doing just fine. 

Dogs are all doing great now, keeping them inside because this year is BAD for ticks. I am back to grooming them also. Vince helps by blow drying them and I do the washing and grooming once dry. 

The new upper deck is nice, and we are thinking of adding a porch cover over it to help protect it. 

They say we have coyotes and foxes and bears around us, so far all we have seen was a black bear running up the side of our driveway to the woods in back of our house. Vince seen it I was inside and missed it. Neighbors up the way say they hear the coyotes howling and have seen them. So far, we have not. Vince said he saw a fox since we have been here. 

We are still going through a few boxes that are left and getting rid of lots of extra stuff. Getting more and more settled in. Still wishing for a smaller home and level yard though. 

We have hummers this year that are unreal, I am making a double batch of food for them, and it is gone in less than 3 days. Some days we are cleaning and filling the bird feeder twice a day. This summer has been crazy with them, love it. Tried to get a pic of them, but just too fast for me. There are 3 hummers sitting on the feeder and more around flying and in weeping willow next to porch. Truly God's little jewels. 

I have just hung a fresh mixture for them. They had many babies this year. It is a feeding frenzy of a morning and late evening and throughout the day every day.

Love and Prayers, 

 Margo

BEAR in our driveway

Well, now we had a bear run up our driveway yesterday evening pass the house and into the woods at back of property. This was a first for us. Vince did see a bear a week or so ago now as he was driving to Walmart's. Now it is at our place. 

Workers on the upper deck said he has a male black bear that hangs at his place, and he lives about 15 min.'s up the street or hill from us. The deck will be finished today. He also told us there are lots of coyotes living around here, and we have seen foxes. 

Thank goodness I do not have a picture to show for the bear.

Love and Prayers,   

Margo

Yet another snake

Well, believe this or not. We went back out to see it, and ether it went back inside the hole OR this is another snake coming out of the tree. This live snake stuff is happening the same day. The SKIN happened a few weeks ago.  

Days later he or she is still in the tree, we believe it is the same snake. It is eating ants and other bugs that are on the tree. So, when he gets bigger, he or she will come down and get on with living.

Snake head out of hole in tree.

  Crazy weird this summer around here in W.V.

 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

Another Snake in Tree

This time a LIVE snake coming out of the hole in the Pauline tree and just sitting on the old sewed off limb. We do not know if this snake belongs to the snake skin we first saw a few weeks ago. 

But here is the snake out of the tree limb with its tail still in the hole. 

Black snake out of hole on tree.

Crazy snake in a tree.

 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

Snake Skin hanging out of Pauline Tree

Snake skin hanging our of our Pauline Tree. There is a old cut off limb and a small hole in the center, we found this snake skin hanging our of it. 

Snake Skin in Tree.

 Just have never seen this before. Snake skin just hanging from the hole.

 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo