Growing up with the century...

 

Today, our little Emily is no longer a teenager.  I wish her a joyous day and a wonderful life. Love you. Hannah says you are old.

Neighbor woman

Wearing the new bogg'n Sister Betty made for her. She loves it and had gotten good use of it with our miserable weather. Yesterday the high at my house was in the mid 30s.

I hope it warms up by July.

Stalking the Eagles..

 

These pics have loaded backwards to the way I wanted, but I am not going to try to rearrange them.  This morning at about 7:30 am, I started on a walk into the fields below my house.  I walked down to the creek where I found eagles in the trees along the creek.  I have assumed when I would see the big birds flying down towards the creek in the early evening that they were going to roost in the protection of the bluffs along Dry Creek.  Today I saw several in the trees close by the creek.  When I got back to the house, I drove over to Sunny Lane.  I caught these 2 deer in Dan's pasture just below his house on the way home.

Helen's Church just after services started this morning.

Two birds in the trees over by Eldridge's farm at the top of Morris Hill.

Same two birds with some weird blue building and an old white house way in the background. From my drive.

This was taken from the edge of Dry Creek on my walk.

Bird below after he decided he did not like me.

This is were I was when Helen called me to see what I was up to this morning.

Same bird as below, and maybe same as above.  Hard to tell for sure.

In a tree on the bluff across the creek. I was about at the line between Norton's and JR Snow's land on Dry Creek here.

Two birds down along the creek on Norton's bottom land.  I was standing about the center of the bottom land Daddy used to own when I took this pic.

Racoon tracks along the creek edge. Richard and Tony hunted here and on these bluffs many long years.

Sunrise, just crossing over the fence into Dry Creek Bottom that Daddy once owned.

Anemic sunrise above Dry Creek.

Now, I need to take a nap.

Beautiful Day Again...

 I talked to Sister Betty when I got home today.  I was not planning on walking, but she said 'Go walk!' so I had to.  Then, after Robert got home and I fed him, I walked again.  Today is the first day I have made 10,000 steps in about a week.

Yesterday, I got 4 T-bone steaks marked down by more than half because they were approaching the end date.  They looked fine, and tasted great.  I cooked 2 for me and the kids last night and made stir fry with the other 2 tonight. It was really good.

This was taken a week ago when the weather was dreary.  We have ducks on the pond every day now.  Today I see four.  I always think of Brother Clayton when I see ducks or geese on the pond.  He always loved all kinds of fowl.

This was taken the same dreary day.  Poor crane looks half drowned.  I often see him on the pond also.  Here he is standing in the spillway.

 

No show snow...

 But trees were sparkling with ice covering early.  It turned out to be a really nice day.  The warmest we have had for several days.  I walked down to the old cemetery in the field.  I wore my new cold weather coat and laid down on the ground to shimmy under the electric fence, 4 times.  Don't tell the kids that bought the coat.  At first I was just going to walk down in the field, but I always have to go over to the cemetery.  It is not overgrown with brush anymore, but several of the stones are down.  Hopefully, they are preserved on the net for all to see.

This is the pine tree.  I know it is older than I am.

The tree big trees at the cemetery are likely more than 150 years old.

So far

It has snowed every day this year. May the sun shine today.