land for sale

On CR 849 Carroll Co. AR. Remax Reality, Roger Turner agent, 741-6000. This is some of the same land ( I think the old Myers place, or Patsy says the Jesse Maples place) of that below, but, I do not know if it has city water like the other and I did not see any electrical lines running along this road. This is all different views of the same old home spot. It looked like the house had burned. Across the road and down the incline about 20 feet was a little dry stream that looked like it ran in wet weather. It feeds (the dry stream) into dry creek down below the old Morris place. There was only one house on this dead end road, about 1.5 to 2 miles at the end of the road. CR 849 is the first road to the left after the old Sunny Lane school house off the Alpena Denver road.

Patsy called and said Tony told her they was a new housing development on Grandpa's place at Sunny Lane. I drove over yesterday and took a look. I think it is actually on the place after Grandpa's which was the Myers place. George said it was on land that Lois Morris sold before she died.

Anyway, this is Grandpa's house that he built.




This is the sign going into the 'subdivision'. There is nothing there except this sign and some nice new roads. To get to the road, you turn off the Denver Alpena road on the second road to the left past where the Sunny Lane church/school house was before it burned. I actually think it is the first real road to the left because I think the first road is actually just a lane to a house that was built in the last 10 years or so. The road is marked county road 849. About 100 yards down the road it forks. To the right is an old lane that dead ends at a house about 2 miles back to the east? There were two old home places that had burned along this road. All that was left were a few pieces of the foundations and the daffodils blooming all over the place. To the left is a new road leading off up the hill towards Grandpa's old place. About 200 or so yards up the road forks again with the lane to the left leading off down towards the main road in front of Grandpa's house and the road to the right leading up the hill towards the back fence. I took the right road and then walked up to the old fence. I could see David Combs fields (the old Jack Robertson's place) across dry creek from there.



this is the lane leading from Pete Bell's old place down towards Grandpa's house. You can click on it and it will be larger. The dark spot of trees on the left edge is the field in front of Grandpa's house. the new development (minus any houses, only a road) can be seen toward the right of the picture in the background. Pete Bell's place was a mess with trash and junk everywhere.





This is the view from the back fence looking off towards dry creek and the rock quarry. I could not recognize anything in the view, but I know my place is just below the trees on the hills somewhere on the left side of this photo.

Buster

A good looking dog. I think he is going to make us a good dog. He barks at things that come into the yard. What I actually want a dog for is to keep the varmints out of the yard. Bear is even more fierce than he ever was, but he is not really a good yard dog any more because he is really feeling his age. Buster is not going to be a medium sized dog, I think.

I went to the Harrison Walmart today and they had some really good looking bare root roses for $4 and $6. I bought a yellow climbing rose, a climbing 'Joseph's Coat' rose that says it is red changing to orange, and two yellow tea roses. I have 2 red roses I bought last year that did really good. I am going to plant the climbers by the deck between the steps and the house. I also bought a rosemary plant, a thyme plant and another smelly herb, Marjoram I think. I am not sure where I will plant them.

I really have the spring bug. Patsy says it is too early to set my tomatoes outside.

Today in history

This day, this year, here are my tomato plants and watermelons I planted under the light. I also have cantaloupe, bell peppers and new zealand spinach, but those are not coming up yet. Patsy says I should just plant the watermelon seeds right in the garden when it gets warm. I think I may do that, and set out some of these also. George is supposed to take care of them after they go in the garden. We will see.

And, today George got his first social security check. It went in the bank by direct deposit, so I can spend it.

We did not get rain last night but we are supposed to get snow Thursday. I would rather have rain, but I guess I have lost all control of the weather. The spring lettuce, radishes and potatoes are very thirsty.

This is the yellow bush that I stole from Ridgedale, MO last year.

We spread turkey manure on the garden and plowed and tilled it in with George's new tiller. Patsy says we put too much on and whatever we plant will burn up. George says no. I am afraid come July I am not going to want to garden anyway, so I am not worried either way. Anyway, if it does come up, the deer will probably eat it all. I have potatoes planted but not up yet. The garden really needs rain and it is trying to rain now, but I don't think we will get much. It is supposed to get down below 30 tonight. I guess we will take it hard after being in the 70's for 3 or 4 days.

George got his $25 raise from President Obama today. Tomorrow he is supposed to get his first SS check. I was a little afraid he had not done everything he was supposed to when he went last fall to apply, but I looked at the papers today and they have our bank account info on them for direct deposit so I guess he got it taken care of.

I saw today that the fire last night was JR Snow's pasture. The one back behind the old Molder house. JR likes to burn off his fields every spring but with the wind and dry conditions, he has not got them burned this year except for this one spectular one last night.

I am hoping for a good rain to bring up my radishes and letuce.

View from my front door tonight

I think this is over by Coin coming up the ridge to Snow's, but it may be on farther. It is dark and hard to tell just how far away it is. It may be across 62. I tried to get George to go see but he won't.