At dusk, the wildlife comes to the Branch for water......I have watched this old mother turkey all summer with her brood from little chicks - they are all grown now, but still stay together. There are, I think 12 all together in their flock.
10/29/08
10/27/08
The Boyd's Yearly Gift to the Community
The Boyd family - out Zenas way - raise and carve pumpkins every Fall - and display them all lighted up for the community to appreciate ......and they DO! The people come by the carloads, and even busloads......It is a children's paradise - whether they be 6 or 60.
10/24/08
"Bear" hugging the back porch watching it rain
Funny thing to me, Labs will dive into anything that looks wet whether it be the river, a mud hole or whatever, yet they have a disdain for rain.
Beautiful Rainy Day
Finally, a good soaking rain - everything has been covered with dust, and is being washed clean. I love the rainy days - we put a tin roof over the back porch so we could hear it.
This is a picture of the wild dogwood tree at the edge of the house - in all it's beautiful fall foliage and red berries. The berries will be gone in short order - the birds love them.
10/20/08
"Out of the Mouths of Babes"
This is the story of the Wooly-Worm. We were walking over by the barn, and I saw a beautiful woolyworm crawling in front of us. I picked it up, held it in the palm of my hand and showed it to Ashley. She gently touched it and we put it in some weeds next to the barn where it would not get trampled on.
Later during the night - Ashley was sound asleep, but started mumbling in her sleep. She started talking and very plainly said "When you pick up a woolyworm, you put it in some flowers" .........pause........"And you will have wooly flowers." Then she giggled and went back to sleep.......
I thought we had put it in some weeds, but I went back and looked, and sure enough, those weeds were full of little white flowers.
Week-end Visitors to the farm
Tessa and Ashley.....Tessa proceeded to take the gourds out of the display and line them up on the fireplace. Ashley waits patiently to put them back.....
New Power Lines across the farm
It's amazing what they can do with the right equipment. They swung these 65' poles around and popped them in the ground like toothpicks - and lined them up straight as soldiers. I was wondering how they were going to "string" them, but they had a piece of equipment for that too - this little monster of a tractor deal that pulled those big wires taught as a fiddle string. They are getting the lines high enough that I don't think the trees are going to bother them anymore - maybe an airplane?
10/13/08
Still cleaning up after "Ike" Storm
Grandchildren Amanda and Bill loading limbs from a huge sycamore tree that came down during the last storm. Thank goodness for all that "young energy"!
10/9/08
Lemonade
Punkin' Makin' in Paper Mache ............ This is "Lemonade" - the original collapsed in the process, so we made Lemonade..........kinda where we are today with the Stock Market?
10/6/08
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