I love Fall

It seems the cooler weather is getting here and I am so happy. The last couple of weekends we have been at the land we have not had to use the air conditioners at all. We have slept with the windows open and actually get very cold. I LOVE IT!!!

We went to the Hopkins County Stew Cookoff and to the Dutch Oven Cookoff the past two weekends. They were alot of fun. At the Stew Cookoff we tasted a couple of the different stews that were made and they were really good. There are also alot of different venders selling there items. Lots of homemade things, it was really nice to walk around and look at all the different ideas. The Dutch Oven had a few vendors but not as many, it was held at a place called Heritage Park, which is a bunch of orginal buildings from way back. There was the first church in Como, with the wooden pews and the organ, it was really cool. They also had the first general store with the orginal post office in the back, the first fire station, etc. It was really neat to walk thru all of it, the workers were dressed in that era also.

We seem to have a very big pig problem, we saw this when we first got the land, but thought they had gone away. Well I guess we were wrong. We are seeing where they have been out in the field tearing up the ground also. We are going to have to do something about them. Josh says he and Kristen will come hunt them, but the rate they are growing they may take over before that happens.




They seem to be there the same time every night....

I like this last one, that pig laid there for like 3 hours....

Well that's all for now.......

Just a quick update

Hello, not much going on, been really busy working....never seem to have enough time to sit down and blog. We took a quick trip east this weekend, because of Ike and all the rain we thought it best not to stay down there. We went down to move the chairs in and make sure everythng that could blow away was put away. We had a lot of rain here in Arlington today, and there was suppose to be more in Como, so I am glad we didn't stay. While we were there I was able to go out and check the camera, my feeder has not been working till last weekend so I haven't had any pictures to show.

This is what was on the camera......Josh, he is waiting on you...we can tell we have serveral around. There were no pictures of deer, but we do see alot of their prints so we know they are there.

Well, I guess that is it for now, next weekend is the fall festival in Sulpher Springs, they have a Hopkins County Stew Cookoff, lots of locals selling their crafts and a big quilt show. I will take some pictures so ya'll can see how much fun it is.

Take care.....Love ya'll

I KNOW!!!

Yea, I am bad about blogging....it just seems to take so long. We have been really busy, we were all able to get together on July 4Th and have a cookout (all but Amanda and Josh). Those pictures you probably saw on Lindsay's blog. Then Kelly and I went to California to see Amanda and Josh, we had a great time. Those pictures you saw on Amanda's blog. So see there is really no need for me to blog because everyone else does. Any way, not a lot to say this time but here are some pictures we have taken over the weeks....enjoy.

God does some beautiful work!

I work very hard out at our land to get the deer to come around. We walk out Amanda and Josh's apartment one day and here they come walking down the street. I don't know what I am doing wrong.

I think this guy stayed like this the whole time we were there. We saw him everyday. That can't be comfortable.

As you can see, the seals are all down the edge of this pier. They are so noisy, and every where, I have never seen so many. I have a little video of them but I could not get it to load.

Back home, this is two very tired dogs after a day in the sun running around. They both love to go out to the land.

Through the hay.....

That's all for now this really takes a long time to do. I always say I am going to try and post more but, I won't promise that this time, I just never seem to have the time. Maybe if I did it more I would not have so much to post. Oh well, till next time.....Love ya

TO LONG.....

I know, I know, I have not posted in awhile.....sorry.....Just never seems to be enough time to sit down and do this.....so here is just an assortment of pictures from the past few weeks.......




My first 5k, I actually finished....yea.....I think it went Lindsay first, then Ashley's friend Kory, Justin, Ashley, then me......

Our Crappie fishing trip.....I caught the most.....sorry Josh maybe you can beat me next time.

My surprise birthday, Amanda got here a day earlier than I was told, Josh came and I was told he couldn't come in for my birthday. Ashley, Kelly, Mom, Dad, Kathy and Joe were all there. Justin was sick with Mono and so him and Lindsay didn't get to come, but I got to spend time with them on Sunday. All in all I had a fantastic Birthday weekend....Sorry Kelly for being so mean to you...:)

My cake.....the cake was good, the candles depressing...

What's missing??????

Kelly's new toy....

and this is not all of them......

Riley's new favorite thing to do.......I think it's her way of making sure we don't go anywhere without her......

Amanda, remember our momma bird.....

We now have a baby......

That's it for now.....love ya all....hope to be more diligent in updating....

One last thing......Josh playing happy birthday....

Sorry could not figure out how to turn it right side up....

UPDATE

Well we got a little more done the past couple of weeks. Last weekend Kelly finished the upstairs window and some of the painting up high. But for some reason I forgot to take pictures of it. Could be because I was to tired after putting insulation in the down stairs. Kelly seems to find in humorous that he told me to be sure and wear gloves and long sleeves, but because I got so hot I had to take those off, well I found out why he kept saying "I wouldn't do that". It was very itchy.......

Other than working on the house, I decided since Josh is wanting to kill a hog, that I would see what I could do to bring some of them back onto our property since we haven't seen them in a few weeks. So I went to Bass Pro and got some "Hog Wild" and added it to the corn in the feeders. Below are the pictures we got....

babies...

So, as you can see, they are back. I am going to get some more "Hog Wild" to put out this weekend also.

I also bought some sunflower seeds, that I am going to plant next weekend towards the back of the property. And I got some bluebonnets, what I really want is a large field of just bluebonnets but Kelly says I can't have that because it probably wouldn't be good for the hay. So I am going to find me a place around the house that I can plant those.

We only went down there this weekend to make sure everything was ok. Since it has snowed here and been so cold it is really wet so we just stay at home. This coming weekend is suppose to be really nice so hopfully we will get some things done.

This shows you how wet it is down there, the creek is way out of its banks, this is by the feeder that never has water around it.

Till next time.....Amanda Happy Birthday again......We miss you and Josh, Justin and Lindsay you are to close for us to go this long with out seeing you...lets make some plans....Joshua hurry home, the hogs and fish are waiting....Ashley I see you everyday, I am so glad one of my children Love's to be around me. Just kidding Love and Praying for all of you, be safe...Love ya Mom

MORE PROGRESS

Just a quick note to let you see how much progress we made this weekend. Billy and the girls came out on Sunday.......

We added outside lights.....

We got the windows in on the side, just need to frame in the one upstairs, and paint the rest of the trim... thats Kelly's job...high painting and caulking.....the windows are great they brighten up the inside.....

Hard to tell but this is a picture from the upstairs window...

This is Billy's dog mad because we are upstairs in the window and she can't jump that high...

And last the picture from the side...it is looking great if I must say so myself.....I love it....Don't worry the porch is coming soon.....

MORE PROGRESS

Well, we worked a little more on the cabin. It is actually starting to really come together. Not much to tell, but here are the lates pictures....

This is the view looking out one of the windows.....

This isn't a very good picture, but it kind of shows how it looks from the inside.....Riley wants to go out.....
Here it is from the outside. I love my screen door...

This is my favorite picture of all..................

I KNOW.....its been a while

Sorry, just never seems to be enough time to sit down and blog. I will try to catch everyone up on what has been going on since the last post Lets see, we had a really good Thanksgiving.....except for Amanda and Josh, everyone was able to be there. We did get to have everyone there for Christmas eve which was wonderful, we had a great time. The saturday before Christmas Billy, Neal and the girls came in to celebrate Christmas. We had a really good time and the girls presents were very entertaining.

Who ever said my boys can't dance......

Christmas eve was wonderful also, we went church where Josh D. (that is) got reconized for what he does for our county.....which we are all very proud of him and all of our millitay. After that we went to my parents and spent the evening with, Justin and Lindsay, Amanda and Josh, Ashley, Joshua, Kathy and Joe and Cody, me and Kelly and my parents. We ate, played games and had a great time with family.....

The two Josh's sometimes it can get confusing but we love them both....

Christmas day Justin and Lindsay were with her family, so the rest of us started the day out with opening presents....

After that we decided to take Amanda and Josh out to the land so they could see it before they left to go back home. This is were Ashley got a small idea of how bad Josh is going to have it going across country with Amanda......but once we got there we had a great time.....for some reason I don't have any pictures of that but if you check out Amanda's blog you can see those.

The next weekend Justin and Lindsay came out to the land for the first time also....

Lindsay driving Justin around with Lexie leading the way.

Justin was driving the 4 wheeler so fast I was never able to get picture of him.

Lindsay was driving so fast her hair was blowing in the wind...I think Lindsay likes running better than riding 4 wheelers, By the way be sure and check out her blog she just ran her first full marathon and did a great job. We are very proud of her, I can't even say the word marathon without getting winded. I an considering WALKING a half marathon tho, I'll let ya'll know how that goes.

Sonny and Nancy (Kellys brother and sister in law) came down the next weekend. This is a good picture of the three bothers and sister together.

Mom and Dad, Billy and the girls even made it down to the land.....

Joe and his girlfriend Maddie.....

And last but not least in Jan, Kelly and I went on the guided fishing trip that my parents gave us for Christmas. It was so much fun and I finally got Kelly to liking fishing. He can't wait to go back again.

So that covers Nov., Dec., and Jan. As you can see we visited the land alot but never seemed to get any work done. But we have made a new vow that we are going to work harder to get so things finished. So this being the first weekend in Feb. Kelly and I went out there this weekend and work all day Sat and part of Sunday and we were able to get the floor in upstairs, I am so excited, we actually spent the night in there. There is still alot left for us to do but it feels so good to have that behind us. See the pictures below for the progress on that.